MUNICIPALITY OF PALMERSTON.

BYE-LAWS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE INCORPORATED TOWN OF PALMERSTON, MADE UNDER AND IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 181, PART XIII., OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1867.

THE Council of the Incorporated Town of Palmerston ordain as follows —

Passed by the said Council the 8th day of September, 1873.

THIRTEENTH SCHEDULE.

PART I.—STREETS AND FOOTWAYS.

1.—Porticos, Projections, &c.

Interpretations.

1.—The word “portico” shall mean and include every awning, portico, porch, verandah, shed or covering upon or across any public footway for the purpose of shade or shelter together with the supports other than the building against which it shall be of such portico.

Erection of Porticos.

2.—Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained it shall be lawful for the owner of any house or building abutting upon any public footway within the borough to erect or place against or in front of such building and upon or across such footway such portico as such owner shall see fit.

Height, &c., of Porticos.

3.—Every such portico shall be supported by upright pillars or supports fixed on the outer line or kerb of the footway and shall be in every part thereof of such height from the ground not less than seven feet and with the pillars or supports thereof shall be of such shape, figure dimensions and materials respectively as shall have been appointed as herein provided.

Regulations relating to Porticos.

4.—It shall be lawful for the council of every borough from time to time to make regulations for all or any of the purposes following, that is to say—

For regulating the height from the ground of such porticos as aforesaid
For appointing the shape, figure and dimensions and materials for such porticos
And there shall be deposited at the office of the council a plan and specification of such portico as shall be appointed in any such regulation and such plan and specification shall be referred to in such regulation and shall be open for inspection by any ratepayer or person interested at all reasonable times without fee or reward.

Porticos erected contrary to bye-laws.

5.—If before the coming into operation of this sub-division in the borough any portico have been erected or placed against or in front of any building and upon or across any public footway contrary to some Act or Ordinance or bye-law lawfully in force in the borough or in the city town or place converted into an original borough or if after such coming into operation any portico shall have been erected or placed against or in front of any building and upon or across any public footway otherwise than as shall have been appointed by some regulation to be made hereunder or if any projecting window, balcony, step-cellar, cellar-door or window or steps leading into any cellar or otherwise lamp-post, lamp-iron, sign-post, sign-iron, show-board, window shutters, wall, gate, fence, or opening, or any other projection or obstruction placed or made against or in front of any building within the borough after the coming into operation of this sub-division therein shall be an annoyance in consequence of the same projecting into or being made in or upon or endangering or rendering less commodious the passage along any footway or street it shall be lawful for the council to give notice to the owner or occupier of such building to remove or to alter so as to conform to such regulation such portico or to remove or in such manner as the council shall by such notice require to alter such projection or obstruction and such owner or occupier shall within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him remove or in manner aforesaid respectively alter such portico or such projection or obstruction aforesaid respectively and if the owner or occupier of any such building neglect or refuse for fourteen days after such notice so served to remove such portico or such projection or obstruction or to alter the same in manner aforesaid respectively he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day during which