Masterton Local Board.

BYE-LAWS.

AT MEETINGS of the Local Board held on the 28th September, and 6th October last, the following Bye-laws were adopted at Masterton:—

I. The Board may make such provision as it shall think fit for the periodical removal from every dwellinghouse or other tenement, as aforesaid, within the district, at the expense of the owner, or occupier thereof, of any nightsoil, dung, ashes, slops, filth, refuse, or rubbish of any kind.

II. Any person guilty of the following offences, omissions, or neglects, within the district shall, on being convicted of any such offence, neglect, or omission, be liable to pay any penalty not exceeding (£5) five pounds.

1. Throwing or sweeping any glass, filth, dirt, rubbish, orange-peel, or other matter of a similar nature, upon or into any street, channel, footway, court, alley, or public place whatsoever.

2. Leading or riding any horse, or other animal, or drawing, wheeling, or driving any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, barrow, or other thing upon or along any footpath, unless permitted by the Board to do so.

3. Burning any shavings, straw, or other material upon any footpath, channel, surface drain, or carriage road, without such permission as aforesaid.

4. Drawing or trailing any timber or other material upon any footpath or carriage road.

5. Allowing nightsoil or other offensive matter to be spilt, or otherwise cast on or upon any road, street, footway, public place, or thoroughfare.

6. Leaving any inflammable materials or matter in any public street or place, or on any open space near any building, without such permission as aforesaid.

7. Opening any drain or sewer, or removing the surface of any footway or carriage road, without authority to do so.

8. Neglecting to clean any private yard, way, passage, avenue, watercloset, privy, or drain, or chimney, when ordered to do so, by which neglect a nuisance by offensive smell or otherwise is caused.

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

10. Making any cellar, door, or other opening, from the footpath of any street or public thoroughfare, without the consent, or not in accordance with the directions of the Commissioners.

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

12. 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.

13. Any 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 over them.

14. 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 thoroughfares within the district.

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

16. 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.

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

18. 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 district, or allowing any waste or impure water, or other matter, to run or flow from any such building or premises, upon or over, or be on any carriage road or footway, or other place, whether public or private, within the district, or shall allow the contents of any watercloset, privy, or cesspool, to overflow or soak therefrom, so as to be offensive.