β¨ Municipal Police Ordinance Regulations
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the day time, when any articles and things
stored in such cellar or basement are in
actual course and process of being lowered
or brought up.
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Every person who shall convey night soil
along a public thoroughfare after the hour
of six o'clock in the morning, and before
the hour of ten o'clock at night. -
Every person who shall deposit, cast,
leave, or suffer to flow and run down upon
or near a public thoroughfare, or into
any river, stream, or creek, or upon the
banks of any river, stream or creek, or upon
such part of the sea-beach as lies within five
hundred yards of the Huatoki mouth, any
night soil, ordure, carcass, offal, or other
animal matter, or any foul water, or any
other noisome or offensive substance. -
Every person who shall sell, or expose for
sale, or have in his possession with intent
to sell, any unwholesome meat; or who
shall have in his possession for the purpose
of slaughtering, any diseased animal unfit
for human food.
II. Every person who within the limits
hereinafter named in that behalf shall com-
mit any of the offences next hereinafter
specified, shall for every such offence for-
feit and pay a sum not less than five shil-
lings, nor exceeding two pounds (that is to
say)
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Every person who (without due authorisa-
tion) shall throw or leave earth, stone,
or rubbish upon a public thoroughfare. -
Every person who shall leave standing or ly-
ing upon any part of a public thoroughfare
any wagon, cart, carriage, truck, wheelbar-
row, or other vehicle, or any packing-case,
crate, basket, cask, barrel, or package. -
Every person who shall place upon any
part of a public thoroughfare (without due
authorisation) any timber, stones, bricks,
lime, or other materials for building. -
Every person who shall expose or place
upon any part of a public thoroughfare any
goods, wares, or merchandise, or shall make
use of any show board, projecting over any
part of such thoroughfare. -
Every person who shall suspend or place
any carcass, meat, or offal, so as to over-
hang any part of a public thoroughfare. -
Every person being the owner, or having
the custody, of any article unlawfully placed
upon or over any part of a public thorough
fare, who shall refuse to remove the same
within a reasonable time after being there-
unto requested by a constable of the Armed
Police Force β every such refusal to be
deemed a separate offence. -
Every person who shall train or break
horses in a public thoroughfare. -
Every person who shall drive flocks or
herds of cattle across the Huatoki Bridge,
in Devon-street aforesaid, and back again
within twenty four hours.
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Every driver of a vehicle not driven by
means of reins, who shall ride thereupon
there being no person on foot to guide the
same, or who shall wilfully remain at such
a distance from his vehicle whilst in motion
as not to have command of the horses or
cattle drawing the same. -
Every driver who in meeting another
vehicle shall not keep his own vehicle on
the left or near side of the road, or who in
overtaking another vehicle shall not keep
his own vehicle on the right or off side of
the road, or who shall in any wise wilfully
prevent, or endeavour to prevent another
vehicle from overtaking him, or who shall
by negligence or misbehaviour impede the
free passage of any vehicle or passenger.β
Persons riding on horseback shall observe
the regulations by this present provision
made for the drivers of vehicles, and shall
be subject to the like penalty for non-ob-
servance thereof, and shall also have the
benefit and protection of the same regula-
tions in like manner as drivers of vehicles. -
Every person who shall split firewood,
or work at any trade or handicraft in a pub-
lic thoroughfare, or who after the hour of
eight o'clock in the morning, and before the
hour of eight o'clock in the evening shall
beat or shake carpets in a public thorough-
fare. -
Every person who shall wilfully encumber
or obstruct a public thoroughfare in any
way not before specifically described. -
Every person who shall haul or draw any
timber, stone, or other load along any part
of a public thoroughfare otherwise than
upon a wheeled carriage or rollers, or shall
suffer any load conveyed upon a wheeled
carriage or rollers to drag or trail. -
Every person who shall publicly bathe
after the hour of eight o'clock in the morn-
ing, and before the hour of eight o'clock in
the evening, in the sea, or in any river,
creek, or stream, so as to offend against de-
cency. -
Every person who shall turn out any stal-
lion, bull, or other entire animal to cover
into any paddock, close, or land, being with-
in public view, and within half a mile of the
centre of the Huatoki Bridge in Devon
street aforesaid. -
Every person who shall write or draw in
or within sight of any public thoroughfare
or place any obscene word, figure, or repre-
sentation. -
Every person who shall use in a public
thoroughfare or place any profane or obscene
language to the annoyance of the inhabitants
and passengers. -
Every person who shall indecently expose
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An Ordinance to regulate the Municipal Police of the Town and Province of New Plymouth
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ποΈ Provincial & Local GovernmentOrdinance, Municipal Police, New Plymouth, Public Safety, Legislation, Public Health, Public Decency, Traffic Regulations
Taranaki Provincial Gazette 1854, No 6