GOAT NUISANCE ACT, 1868.

Dunstan Times, Issue 322, 26 June 1868, Page 3

GOAT NUISANCE ACT, 1868.

An Ordinance to abate the Nuisance arising from Stray Goats within the Limits of the various Towns and Municipalities of the Province of Otago. Whereas great annoyance, inconvenience, and loss have accrued f om goats being allow el to stray within the limits of the various towns and municipalities of the Province. Be it therefore enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows: I. This Ordinance shall be tonne 1 and may be cited and referred to as the " float Nuisance Ordinance 18R8. 11. Any person who shall keep any goat without causing a description of every such goat so kept by him or her to be registered and such registration to be renewed from year to year in manner hereinafter mentioned shall forfeit and pay for any such goat a penalty or sum of not less that five shillings nor more than five pounds provided always that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to require the registration of any goat under the age of three month the proof of which sln.U lie on the owner or keeper of such goat. )/.(. Every such registration of any goat shall be made by its owneror keeper or some persons on his or her behalf paying the fees a'tet mentioned and delivering at the Polide Office of the district or at such other place as the Superintendent may appoint in the district in which such goat is intended to be ordinarily kept a description of such goat embracing the several particulars contained in the schedule to this Ordinance annexed. IV. Every such registration shall be deemed to be in foice from the day upon which the same shall be so made until the thirty-first day of March then next ensuing and no longer and shall be in ' like manner renewed from'year to year as long as j any such goat shall be kept: Provided however that every such registration which shall be made in the month of March in any year shall be deemed to be in force until the thirty-first day of March in the year next ensuing. V. For the registration of every such goat the sum of shall be paid to the officer in charge of the police office or station for the district or to such other place as the Superintendent nir.y appoint in the district in which the registration is made and the said officer shall in return for the segistration fee supply to the person making such registration a registration ticket containing the number in the registry book to be kept for the district as hereinafter mentioned the name of the owner the name and description of the goat and the date of registration. VI. In all cases wdiere damages for injury done by a goat are sought to be recovered from the owner it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to prove that the owner knew of the goat's propensity to commit the nuisance complained of. VII. All registration fees paid in virtue of this Ordinance shall be accounted for and paid over to the Provincial Treasurer for the public uses of the province agreeably to any rules and regulations that may be made by the Superintendent in that behalf. VIII. All penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be recovered before any two Justices of the Peace in a summary way. The schedule referred to contains the form of notice of registering goats. The number of goats it is intended to keep has to be state; also the premises on which each goat is intended to be kept; its sex, age, color or peculiar mark and a description of its kind.