Bye-law Regulations




20th.—Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway, or outside of any shop-window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

21st.—Discharging any firearms, or letting off any fireworks, within the Town of Invercargill without permission of the Town Council.

22nd.—Any person laying out or opening any street or building therein, and omitting during the operations necessary for forming such street, or for building therein, to take all such precautions for guarding against injury to the passengers along such street as may be necessary, or as may be directed by the Town Council.

23rd.—Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

24th.—Any person leaving any hole, excavation, or dangerous formation in or near any public place, street, or thoroughfare, without fencing or enclosing the same, or without keeping a light burning upon such formation from sunset to sunrise.

25th.—Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any area, or entrance to any cellar or other place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles, any entrance to any area, cellar, or other place (such area or entrance opening into or upon or near any public street, road, thoroughfare, or other public place).

26th.—Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal with the intention of drowning it, into any river, watercourse, or other place from whence the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said town is obtained.

27th.—Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

28th.—Any person driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping on the left or near side of the road or street, or when passing any other vehicle or animal going in the same direction, not going or passing, or not allowing any person desiring so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

29th.—Driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatsoever, by negligence or by driving on the wrong side of the road, or by being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control of them.

30th.—Any person who shall act as driver, or have the sole charge of more than one vehicle, on any public road or street, unless in cases where two of such carriages, and no more, shall be drawn each by one horse only, and the horse of the hinder of such carriages shall be attached by a sufficient rein to the back of the foremost of such vehicles.

31st.—Driver or guard of public vehicle for conveyance of passengers, wilfully delaying on the road, using any abusive or insulting language to any passenger, or by reason of any intoxication, negligence, or other misconduct, causing injury to or endangering the safety of the person or property of any passenger, or other person.

32nd.—Any person turning loose any horses or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the Town of Invercargill.

33rd.—Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

34th.—Any person slaughtering or skinning any beast upon any public street or thoroughfare, or permitting any slaughtered beast or skin to remain there, or leaving any dead beast on such street or thoroughfare.

35th.—Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle going along any street or thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle, without permission of the Town Council.

36th.—Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice pipe, pump, watercourse, or fountain.

37th.—Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water, offensive vegetable or animal matter, or other matter, to remain in any cellar or place within any building or premises in the town, or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter to run or flow from any such building or premises upon or over, or be on any carriage or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the said town, or shall allow the contents of any water closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow, or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.

38th.—Any carter or other person selling, exposing, delivering or offering for sale on any cart or waggon, any hay, straw, or coals, without having the correct tare weight of such waggon or cart painted and affixed thereto in some conspicuous place in letters of not less than one inch.

39th.—Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by any purchaser of any hay, straw, or coals, to proceed with such hay, straw, or coals to the nearest weighbridge, licensed, provided, or sanctioned for that purpose by the Town Council, and to have the same re-weighed at the expense of such purchaser (the said purchaser in all such cases taking the said load or other quantity at the net re-weight).

40th.—Any carter or other person who shall refuse or omit, on being requested by the purchaser referred to in the last preceding section to take to any weighbridge within the town, appointed or licensed for the purpose of this bye-law by the Town Council, the waggon, dray, cart, or other vehicle, after the delivery of the load, for the purpose of such dray, cart, or other vehicle being re-weighed, and the correct tare weight thereof, when empty, ascertained, the cost thereof being paid by such purchaser.

41st.—Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Invercargill who shall give a false or incorrect weight of any dray, cart, or other vehicle, or of any load or part of a load of goods thereon.

42nd.—All weighbridges within the Town of Invercargill shall be duly licensed in writing under the hand of the Town Clerk of the said town, and any person keeping any weighbridge within the said town and not having paid the license fee of £1 annually for such weighbridge, and being unlicensed.

43rd.—Any owner or person in charge of any weighbridge within the Town of Invercargill who shall demand or exact any greater rates than those in this section authorised to be charged from any person using or desiring to use any weighbridge.

Rate chargeable for each vehicle having two wheels only—1s.
Do. do. for four wheels—1s 6d.

Provided nevertheless that the Town Council may at any time by resolution vary the rates herein authorised to be charged, and after publication in the Provincial Government Gazette of any such alteration, the rates so altered shall be deemed to be the rates authorised under this bye-law.

44th.—Any person hawking, selling, or exposing for sale articles in any street or public place outside any market established or authorised by the Town Council of Invercargill, without having first paid to the Market Inspector appointed by the Town Council the undermentioned dues, each day during which such articles may be hawked, exposed, or offered for sale, or other dues as may be from time to time fixed and appointed by the said Council.

Dues for any person selling, hawking, or offering for sale any articles in any street or public place outside any market established or authorised by the Town Council of Invercargill:—

With cart, bag, barrow, basket, or box, per quarter, 5s.

And the onus of proof that any articles being delivered about the streets of the town have been previously ordered, and not being hawked, shall in each case rest with the vendor or party delivering said goods. Provided always that quarterly or annual licenses paid for as under to the Town Clerk, on behalf of the Town Council, shall entitle the license holder to vend or hawk commodities about the streets of the said city, subject to the several rules and regulations made, or from time to time to be made in that behalf.

Quarterly license fee for the sale of milk, 5s.

Annual license fee per cart, for the sale or hawking of any commodity, £1.

45th.—Any person being the owner or tenant of any building abutting on any street where the footpath has been formed, who by omitting or neglecting to secure and



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Online Sources for this page:

VUW Te Waharoa PDF Otago Provincial Gazette 1874, No 884





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