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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 79, 20 April 1877, Page 3

BYE-LAWS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF AKAROA, MADE UNDER SECTION 349 OF "THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT, 1876." IN pursuance of Sub Section 2, of: Section 349 Part XII 61 "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1876," the Council v of the Borough of Akaroa hereby adopt for the regulation of their meetings, proceedings, debates, and general conduct of the business of the Council the standing orders adopted at a special meeting of the Council, on 21st September, 1876, and which are hereby incorporated with the Bye-laws. Streets and Footways, porticos, projections, &c. Interpretation. 1. The word " portico " shall mean and include every awning, portico, porch, verandah, shed, shade or covering, upon or across any public footway, for the purpose of shade or shelter, together with the supports, other than the building against which it shall be of such portico. Erection of Porticos. 2. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, it shall be lawful for the owner of. any house or building abutting upon any public footway within the Borough, to erect or place against, or in front of such building, and upon or across such footway, such portico as such owner shall see fit. Height of Porticos. 3. Every portico shall be supported by upright pillars or supports, fixed on the outer line or kerb of the footway, and shall be in every part thereof of such height from the ground not less than seven feet, and with the pillars or supports thereof, shall be of such shape, figure, dimensions, and materials respectively, as shall have been appointed as herein provided. Porticos erected contrary to Bye-laws or Regulations. 4. If before the coming into operation of this Bye-law in the Borough, any portico shall have been erected or placed against, or in front of any building, and upon or across any public footway, contrary to some Act or Ordinance or Bye-law, lawfully in .force in the Borough, or in the city, town, or place converted into an original Borough, or if after such coining into operation any portico shall have been erected, or placed against, or in front of any building, and upon or across any public footway, otherwise than as shall have been appointed by some regulation to be made hereunder, or if any projecting window, balcony, step-cellar, cellar-door, or window, or steps leading into any cellar or Otherwise, lamp-post, lamp-iron, sign, signpost, sign-iron, show-board, windowshutters, wall, gate, fence, or opening, or any other projection or obstruction, placed or made against or in front of any building within the Borough, after the coining into operation of this Bye-law therein, shall be an annoyance in consequence of the same projecting into or being made in or upon or endangering or rendering less commodious the passage along any footway or street, it shall be lawful for the Council to give notice to the owner or occupier of such building, to remove or to alter, so as to conform to such regulation such portico, or to remove, or in such maimer as the Council shall by such notice require, to alter such projection or obi. struction, and such owner or occupier shall within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him, remove or in manner aforesaid, respectively alter such portico or obstruction as aforesaid lespectively, and if the owner or occupier of any such building, neglect or refuse for fourteen days after such notice so ser\ ed, to remove such portico or such projection or obstruction, or to alter the same in manner aforesaid respectively, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds, and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings, for every day during which such projection or obstruction continues after the expiration of fourteen days from the time when he may be convicted of any such offence contrary to the provisions of this section. 5. If before the coming into operation Porticos erected without violation of previous Bye-laws. of this sub-division in the Borough, any portico shall have been erected or placed without violation of any Bye-law for the time being lawfully in force against or in front of any building, and upon or across any public footway laid out as such hereunder, or otherwise, and such portico shall not be in conformity with some regulation for the time being in force hereinunder, or if any such projection or obstruction as in the last preceding section mentioned, which has been placed or made against or in front of any building before such coming into operation as aforesaid, shall be an annoyance as in the said said section mentioned, it shall be lawful for the Council to cause such portico to be removed or altered, so as to conform to such regulation, or as the case may be, such projection or obstruction to be removed or altered, as they see fit. Provided that the Council shall give notice of every such intended removal or alteration, to the owner or occupier, against or in front of whose building such portico, projection, or obstruction, may be seven days before such removal or alteration shall be commenced, and shall make reasonable compensation to be ascertained and ordered, if the parties differ by two Justices to every person who shall incur any loss or damage by such removal or alteration, except in cases where the portico, projections, or obstructions, shall have been erected, placed, or made, without lawful right, or against the law, or may be removable under some other Act or law, in which case no compensation shall be made. Repairs &c. of Porticos. 6. Every owner or occupier of any building against or in front of which there shall be any portico, shall keep the same clean and in good repair, and it shall be lawful for the Council to give notice to any such owner or occupier to clean or repair, such portico, if, and as the same may be required, and every owner or occupier who shall neglect or refuse, within seven days after the service of such notice, to eftect such cleaning and repair, shall forfeit a sum not forty shillings, for every day during which he shall fail to effect the same. Naming Streets and Numbering Houses. Names of Streets. 7. It shall be lawful for the Council of the Borough, from time to time, to cause to be painted or affixed in a conspicuous part of some house or building, at or near each corner or entrance of every street, and in direction of the line of such street, the name of such street in legible characters, not exceeding three inches in length, and proportionately, broad, and near to each