Wellington Provincial Gazette – 1874 – No. 3

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✨ Wellington City Council Bye-Laws



NEW ZEALAND

GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.

(PROVINCE OF WELLINGTON).

Published by Authority.

All Public Notifications which appear in this Gazette, with any Official Signature thereto annexed, are to be considered as Official Communications made to those persons to whom they relate, and are to be obeyed accordingly.

HENRY BUNNY,
Provincial Secretary.

VOL. XXI. SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1874. No. 3

Wellington City Council Bye-Laws.

WE, the Mayor, Councillors, and Citizens of the City of Wellington, pursuant to the powers and provisions contained in The Municipal Corporations Act, 1867, do make and ordain the following Bye-Laws, that is to:—

Any person guilty of any of the following offences, omissions, or neglects, within the City of Wellington, shall on conviction of any such offence, 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 doorway 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 whatever 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 trailing 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.



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🏘️ Wellington City Council Bye-Laws

🏘️ Provincial & Local Government
24 January 1874
Bye-Laws, Public Order, Streets, Thoroughfares, Wellington
  • Henry Bunny, Provincial Secretary