BYE-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF CROMWELL

The subdivisions of part II of the 13th schedule to the said Act, are hereby adopted in and for the said Town of Cromwell, and for and on behalf of the said Corporation.

2nd.—All bye-laws heretofore in force, or presumed to have been, are hereby expressly repealed.

Bye-Law No. 2

Bye-Law of the Council of the Town of Cromwell, made under section 186 of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1867."

A Bye-law to provide for the better rule and government of the Town of Cromwell.

In pursuance of the powers and provisions contained in section 186, part 13, of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1867," the Council of the Town of Cromwell ordain as follows, that is to say:—

Any person guilty of any of the following offences, omissions, or neglects, within the Town of Cromwell, shall on being convicted of such offence, neglect, or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding (£5) Five Pounds:—

1st.—Throwing any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, or any matter of a similar nature, upon any street, footway, court, alley, or public place whatsoever.

2nd.—Riding, driving, leading, or wheeling any barrow, cart, dray, or carriage, upon any footpath without permission from the City Council so to do.

3rd.—Placing any timber, bricks, stones or other building materials upon any footway, way, channel, surface drain, or carriage road, without such permission as aforesaid.

4th.—Burning any shavings, straw, or other materials on any footway, carriage road, or open or public place, without such permission as aforesaid.

5th.—Leaving any inflammable materials or matter in any public shed or place, or any open place near any building, without such permission as aforesaid.

6th.—Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber, or other material upon any footway, or carriage road, to the injury of such footway or carriage road.

7th.—Emptying any privy or cesspool, or carting away any night soil, or other offensive matter, without having a license from the Town Council of Cromwell so to do.

8th.—Allowing any night soil, or other offensive matter to be spilt, or otherwise cast on to or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

9th.—Allowing the droppings from the eaves of any house to fall upon any footway.

10th.—Placing any placard or other document, writing or painting on, or otherwise defacing, any house or building, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, railway-post, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof.

11th.—Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, without authority from the Town Council so to do.

12th.—Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance, by offensive smell or otherwise, is caused.

13th.—Rolling any cask, beating any carpet, breaking in any horse, flying any kite, using any bows and arrows, or playing at any game, to the annoyance of any person, in any public place, or obstructing any footpath, or carriage road, whether by allowing any cart or animal to remain across such footpath or carriage road, or by placing goods thereon, or otherwise.

14th.—Throwing or discharging any stone, or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property.

15th.—Having any awning on or over any footway in any public street or thoroughfare, not being eight feet clear above the footway.

16th.—Blasting any rock, stone, or timber, in or near any public place, without permission of the Town Council.

17th.—Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

18th.—Killing or slaughtering any animal without having been duly licensed in that behalf by the Town Council.

19th.—Making any cellar door, or other opening from the footway of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or not in accordance with the directions of the Town Council.

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, or carrying any firearms, sword, dirk, dagger, or other offensive weapon, within the Town of Cromwell without permission of the Town Council. Provided that the provision last aforesaid shall not apply to any Justice of the Peace, or any person in Her Majesty’s military or naval service, or any member of the police, or other peace officer, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.

22nd.—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.—Placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

24th.—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.—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.—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.—Riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent persons having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

28th.—Driving any vehicle whatsoever, or riding any animal, and when meeting any other vehicle or animal not keeping 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 desirous so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.

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

30th.—Turning loose any horse or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander any public street or thoroughfare within the Town of Cromwell.

31st.—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.

32nd.—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.

33rd.—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.

34th.—Destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice pipe, pump, water-course, or fountain.

35th.—Suffering or allowing any waste or impure water, 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 such building or premises upon or over, or on any carriage or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the said Town, or allowing the contents of any water-closet, privy, or cesspool to overflow, or to soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.

36th.—Being the owner or tenant of any building abutting any street where the footpath has been formed, and by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the foundation of such building, causing or allowing the formed footpath to fall in, or be otherwise damaged.

37th.—Keeping any house of ill-fame or repute, or having the control, conduct, or management of the same, or being a reputed occupier, or being an inmate of any such house.

38th.—Permitting fowls, ducks, geese, or turkeys to wander upon any thoroughfare.

39th.—Keeping swine within such limits as may be prescribed by the Town Council.