✨ Dunedin Municipal Bye-laws
261
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 footpath 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 City Council of Dunedin, to do so.
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 caves 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 on carriage road, without authority from the City Council to do so.
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 ten feet clear above the footway.
16th.—Blasting any rock, stone or timber, in or near any public place without permission of the City Council.
17th.—Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.
18th.—Exposing in any public steet or thoroughfare, except in any fair or market lawfully appointed for that purpose, any horse or other animal for show, hire or sale.
19th.—If any butcher or other person shall kill or slaughter any animal without having been duly licensed in that behalf by the City Council.
20th.—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 City Council.
21st.—Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway, or outside of any shop window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.
22nd.—Discharging any firearms, or letting off any fireworks, or carrying any firearms, sword, dirk, dagger or other offensive weapon, within the City of Dunedin without permission of the City 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 member of a recognised Volunteer Corps, or any special constable, or any person actually in pursuit of any felon or offender.
23rd.—Any person laying out or opening any street or building thereon, 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 City Council.
24th.—Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.
25th.—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.
26th.—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.)
27th.—Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal, with the intention or drowning it, into any river, watercourse, or other place from whence the supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said city is obtained.
28th.—Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins and not competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.
29th.—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 desirous so to do to pass, when practicable, on the right or off side of such other vehicle or animal.
30th.—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.
31st.—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.
32nd.—Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed, or attached to any vehicle, through any public place.
33rd.—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 by each one horse, 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.
34th.—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.
35th.—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 City of Dunedin.
36th.—Any person leaving 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.
37th.—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.
38th.—Any person having any iron, timber or boards laid across any vehicle going along any street fare.
Next Page →
✨ LLM interpretation of page content
🏘️
Bye-law No. 3 for the better Rule and Government of the City of Dunedin
(continued from previous page)
🏘️ Provincial & Local GovernmentDunedin, Bye-law, Municipal Corporations Act, City Council, Public conduct, Traffic regulations, Nuisances
Otago Provincial Gazette 1875, No 967