✨ Wellington City Council Bye-Laws




same, or without keeping a light burning upon such formation from sunset to sunrise.

  1. 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.

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

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

  4. 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 any area, cellar, or other dangerous place (such area or entrance opening into, upon, or near any public street, thoroughfare, road, or other public place).

  5. Any person ringing a bell or bells, or blowing any trumpet or horn, or beating any drum, tambourine, or gong, in or near any street or public place within the City of Wellington, for the purpose of crying or calling any matter or thing whatever, unless licensed as a bellman by the City Council.

  6. Rolling any cask, beating any carpet, flying any kite, using any bows or 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, or backed against, such footpath or carriage road, or by placing goods thereon, or unnecessarily delaying the loading or unloading of any waggon, or cart, or otherwise.

WITH RESPECT TO HORSES AND CARTS, RIDING, DRIVING, &C.

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

  2. Riding, driving, or leading any horse, or wheeling any barrow, cart, dray, or carriage, upon or along any footpath, without permission from the City Council so to do.

  3. Any person turning loose any horse, or cattle, upon any public street, or allowing any animal or animals to wander on any public street or thoroughfare within the city of Wellington.

  4. Exposing in the public street or thoroughfare any horse, or other animal, for show, hire, or sale.

  5. Breaking, training, exercising, cleaning, or dressing any horse, or other animal, in any public street or thoroughfare.

  6. Cleaning or repairing any cart, carriage, waggon, or other vehicle (except in case of accident, where repair on the spot is necessary), in any public street or thoroughfare.

  7. 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.

  8. Any person driving any cart, waggon, or dray, without the name and residence of the owner thereof being painted, in a legible and permanent manner, on the right or off side.

  9. 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 road or street, or when passing any 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 vehicle or animal.

  10. Driver of any horse or vehicle injuring any person or property whatsoever 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 of them.

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

  12. Leaving unattended by a competent person, any horse or horses yoked to any cart, waggon, dray, or other vehicle, in any public street or thoroughfare, unless the wheels of such cart, waggon, dray, or other vehicle be securely locked or chained, and the driver within the distance of ten yards of such cart, waggon, dray, or other vehicle.

WITH RESPECT TO NUISANCES.

  1. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, or avenue, by which neglect a nuisance, by offensive smell or otherwise, is caused.

  2. Emptying any privy or cess-pit, or carting away night soil or other offensive matter, without having a license from the City Council so to do.

  3. Allowing any night soil or other offensive matter to be spilt, or otherwise cast on to or upon any road, street, footway, or public thoroughfare.

  4. 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, or on any private property, whereby a nuisance is created.

  5. Allowing any sludge or other offensive matter to flow over any footpath, or to flow into any street.



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VUW Te Waharoa PDF Wellington Provincial Gazette 1874, No 3





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🏘️ Wellington City Council Bye-Laws (continued from previous page)

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