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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 ARROWTOWN.

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

Any person guilty of any the acts, offences, omissions, or neglects, mentioned in any of the following Bye-Laws, shall, on being convicted of any such offence, omissions or neglects, be liable to any penalty not exceeding five pounds sterling (£5).

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

2nd. Riding, driving, or leading any animal, or wheeling any barrow, cart, dray, or carriage, or along any footpath, without the permission of the Town Council to do so.

3rd. Placing any timber, brick, stones or other building material upon any footway, channel, surface drain, or carriage road, without permission as aforesaid.

4th. Leaving any inflammatory matter in any matter in any public place, or any other space near any building without such permission as aforesaid.

5th.—Drawing or trailing any sledge, timber, or other materials upon any footway or carriage road, to the injury of such footway or carriage road.

6th. Allowing any nightsoil, or other offensive matter, to be spilt or otherwise cast on to, or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

7th. Allowing the droppings from the eaves of any house to fall upon any footway.

8th. Placing any placard or other document, writing or painting on, or otherwise defacing any house or building, or any wall, fence, lamp-post, or gate, without the consent of the occupier or owner thereof.

9th. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, without authority from the Town Council to do so.

10th. Neglecting to clean out any private yard, way, passage or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused.

11th. 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.

12th. Throwing or discharging any stone or other missile, to the annoyance of any person or property.

13th. Blasting any rock, stone, or timber, in or near any public place without permission of the Town Council.

14th. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

15th. If any butcher or other person, shall kill or slaughter any animal without having been duly licensed in that behalf by the Town Council.

16th. 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.

17th. Exposing goods of any kind whatsoever outside of any shop, window, or doorway, or on any footpath or public thoroughfare, to the obstruction of the same.

18th. Discharging any firearms or letting off any fireworks.

19th. 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.

20th. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered, without fencing or enclosing the same, or without keeping a light burning upon such formation from sunset to sunrise.

21st. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, or fence, over or above 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, thoroughfare, or other public place.

22nd. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or matter likely to become offensive, or any animal with the intention of drowning it, or any dead animal into any river, water-course, or other place from whence the supply of water for the inhabitants of the said town is obtained.

23rd. 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.

24th. Driver of any horse or vehicle being away from his horse or cattle, so as to be unable to have the full control of them, or injuring any person or property whatsoever by negligence, or by driving on the wrong side of the road.

25th. Any person driving any cart, waggon, or dray, without the name and residence of the owner thereof being painted in a legible and permanent manner on the right or off-side, in letters of at least one inch in length.

26th. Driver or guard of any public vehicles 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.

27th. Any person turning loose any cattle or horses upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the town of Arrowtown.

28th. Any person leaving upon any public street or thoroughfare, any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or other animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

29th. Any person having any iron, timber, or board, laid across any vehicle going along any street, thoroughfare, so that either end shall project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

30th. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aquaduct, dam, sluice-pipe, pump, water-course, or fountain.

31st. Placing any watercloset, privy, or cesspool in a position that shall be deemed a nuisance or offensive to the neighbourhood.

32nd. Having on any premises, or under the control of the owner of any premises any excavation for the deposit of excrementitious matter.

33rd. Having any kind of closets or privy other than those known as earth-closets.

34th. Having earth-closets unprovided with a box or other movable receptacle for excrementitious matter, or having the same below the surface of the floor of such closet.

35th. Neglecting to keep or use in any earth-closet a supply of dry earth, reasonably sufficient for disinfecting or destroying purposes.

36th. Neglecting to clean out, or to provide for the cleaning out of any earth-closet, at least once every fourteen days.

37th. Any person being the owner or tenant of any building, abutting any street where the footpath has been formed, by omitting or neglecting to secure and maintain the formation of such buildings, causes or allows the formed footpath to fall in or be otherwise damaged.

38th. Any person carrying upon any footpath or street line any implements, tools, or material projecting in such a manner as to be a public obstruction.

39th. Any person riding or driving any horse or other animal either with or without a vehicle at other than a walking pace, over any bridge, round an angle or corner of any street or public thoroughfare within the town, or within three feet of any such corner.

40th. Any person obstructing the Inspector of Nuisances in the execution of his duties.

41st. Any person making, or keeping, or causing and permitting to be made or kept within the Town of Arrow.