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IN THE SEVENTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY
QUEEN VICTORIA.

SESSION I. No. 6.

AN ORDINANCE
TO REGULATE THE MUNICIPAL POLICE OF THE TOWN AND PROVINCE
OF NEW PLYMOUTH.

Analysis.

Title:
Preamble.

1. Fine not exceeding £5 for divers offences against the Public safety and health.
2. Fine not exceeding £2 for divers offences against Public convenience and Public decency.
3. Fine for neglect after notice to remove common nuisances, and to make good dangerous chimneys.
4. Power to inspect alleged nuisances and to examine chimneys.
5. Local limit of the proceeding provisions.
6. Local limit may be altered at request of Provincial Council by notice to be given by Superintendent.
7. Fine not exceeding £20 for injuries done to Public Buildings, Roads, and other Public property within the Province.
8. Footpath Ordinance extended to footbridges.
9. Superintendent empowered to proclaim public footpaths under provisions of Footpath Ordinance.
10. Ordinance not to repeal any existing Penalties.
11. Proceedings under the Ordinance to be instituted exclusively by Constabulary.
12. Penalties to be recoverable in a summary way.
13. Interpretation clause.
14. Commencement of operation.

AN ORDINANCE to regulate the Municipal Police of the Town and Province of New Plymouth.

For regulating the Municipal Police of the Town and province of New Plymouth.

Be it enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of New Plymouth, with the Advice and Consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows :—

I.—Every person who, within the limits hereinafter named in that behalf, shall commit any of the offences hereinafter specified, shall for every such offence forfeit and pay a sum not less than 10s. nor exceeding £5 (that is to say)

1. Every person who shall discharge any firearm or firearm within the distance of half a mile from the centre of the Huatoki Bridge, in Devon-street, in the Town of New Plymouth.

2. Every person who shall wilfully fire the bush, fern, scrub, flax, grass, or other vegetation on any land within the limits hereinafter named in that behalf.

3. Every person who shall wilfully fire any litter, shavings, or other combustible matter so as to endanger any house or other building.

4. Every person who shall neglect to keep clean the chimney of any house or other building occupied by him, if other houses or buildings are endangered by such neglect.

5. Every person who shall ride or drive in a public thoroughfare so as to endanger the lives or limbs of passengers and others.

6. Every person who shall suffer any ferocious dog to be at large and unmuzzled in a public thoroughfare, or shall wantonly set on any dog to attack, worry, or put in fear any person or animal.

7. Every person driving cattle in a public thoroughfare, who shall wilfully or negligently cause any injury or damage to be done by such cattle to any person or property, or shall in any wise misbehave in the driving of such cattle.

8. Every person who shall wantonly hurt or harass any cattle passing along or being in a public thoroughfare.

9. Every occupier, and where there is no occupier, every owner, of a house or other building, accommodated by an opening in the public footway or roadway giving access or light to any cellar or sunk basement, who shall neglect to keep such opening securely covered and constantly closed by a substantial trap door, or by substantial rails or bars, or in some other sufficient manner, save only at reasonable times in