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Wellington City Council Bye-Laws.

WE the MAYOR and COUNCILLORS of the City of Wellington pursuant to the powers and provisions contained in the Municipal Corporation Act, 1867, do make and ordain the following By-Laws, that is to:—

Any person guilty of any of the following offence omissions, or neglects, within the City of Wellington, shall on conviction of any such offences neglect, or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding £5.

WITH RESPECT TO THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER IN PUBLIC STREETS OR THOROUGHFARES.

1. Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway or outside any shop window or door way abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

2. Sweeping any dirt, rubbish, or other matter of a similar nature from any shop, store, office, or other building whatsoever on to any footway public thoroughfare, or street.

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

4. Packing or unpacking any goods upon any street, footway, or public place whatsoever.

5. Depositing any casks, cases, tanks, goods, materials, or empties of any description whatever, upon any unfenced land abutting upon any street or public thoroughfare.

6. Placing any timber, bricks, stones, or other building materials upon any footway, channel, surface drain, or carriage road, or open or public place without permission from the City Council so to do.

7. Planing, sawing, mixing mortar, or executing any builders work upon any footway, carriage road, or public place without such permission as aforesaid.

8. Allowing any shavings, hay, straw, paper, or other materials during the progress of any work, or work of cleansing, loading, or unloading, to be blown about any street or public thoroughfare.

9. Burning any shavings, straw, or other materials, or matter upon any footway, carriage road, or open or public place without written permission from the Council so to do.

10. Drawing or tailing any sledge, timber, or other material upon any footway or carriage road to the injury of such footway or carriage road.

11. Opening any drain or sewer or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, or making any cellar door, or opening from the footway of any street, or public thoroughfare, without written authority from the City Council so to do.

12. Allowing the droppings from the eaves of any building to fall upon any footway.

13. Any person placing any obstruction upon any street line, whereby life or limb is likely to be endangered.

14. 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.

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

16. Any person defacing any house, building, wall, fence, gate, or place, by writing or placarding thereon any profane or obscene language.

17. Blasting any rock, stone, or timber in or near any public place, without permission of the City Council.

18. Any person neglecting or omitting to keep in good repair any rail, gate, fence, or cover over or about any well, or entrance to any cellar or dangerous place, or keeping open for more than a reasonable time for taking in or out any articles, any entrance to