Local Government Bylaws




[THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE]

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privy, or drain, when ordered to do so by
the Inspector of Nuisances, or other person acting on behalf of the Council, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell, or otherwise, is caused.

  1. 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.

  2. Throwing or discharging any stone or other missile, to the damage or danger of any person or property.

  3. Having any awning on or over any footway in any public street or thoroughfare, not being (8) eight feet clear above the footway, or obstructing the footway by the supports of such awning, or verandah, or hanging any goods on or under such awning over the footway.

  4. Blasting any stone or timber in or near any public place without permission of the Council.

  5. Furiously or negligently riding or driving through any public place, street, or thoroughfare.

  6. Exposing in any public street or thoroughfare, except in any fair or market lawfully appointed for that purpose, any horse or other animal for show, hire, or sale.

  7. 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 Council.

  8. Exposing for sale any article whatsoever on any footway, or outside any shop window or doorway abutting on any public thoroughfare or street.

  9. Discharging any firearms, or squib, cracker, rocket, or other firework, within the Borough, without permission of the Council. Provided that the provision aforesaid as to discharging firearms 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.

  10. Any person laying out or opening any street, or building therein, and omitting during the operations necessary for forming such street or 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 Council.

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

  12. 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.

  1. Any person throwing any offensive matter, or any animal, with the intention of drowning it, into any watercourse or other place from whence a supply of water for the use of the inhabitants of the said Borough is obtained.

  2. Any carter riding on any cart, dray, or waggon, without having and holding proper and sufficient reins, and no competent person having charge of the animal or animals drawing the same.

  3. 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 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.

  4. Any driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatever 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 over them.

  5. Any person driving any dog or goat harnessed or attached to any vehicle through any public place.

  6. 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 carts, and no more, shall be drawn each by one horse only, 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.

  7. Any person turning loose any horse or cattle upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander in any public street or thoroughfare within the Borough.

  8. Any person leaving upon any public street thoroughfare any plough, harrow, cart, or other vehicle, without any horse or animal harnessed thereto, unless in consequence of some accident having occurred.

  9. 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.

  10. Any person having any iron, timber, or boards laid across any vehicle, going along any street or thoroughfare, so that either end should project more than two feet beyond the wheels or sides of such vehicle.

  11. Any person destroying, damaging, polluting, or obstructing any aqueduct, dam, sluice, pipe, pump, watercourse or fountain.

  12. Any person suffering or allowing any waste or impure water or other matter, to remain in any cellar or place, within any building or premises in the



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1873, No 20





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🏘️ Wanganui Borough Council Bye-Law No. 3 (continued from previous page)

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
11 June 1873
Bye-law, Waste removal, Nuisances, Penalties, Wanganui