MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.

Kumara Times, Issue 1577, 17 October 1881, Page 2

MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.

When the Municipal Corporations Act Amendment Bill was committed, new clauses were inserted, giving. Municipal Corporations power to make bylaws—To prevent or regulate the blasting of any rock, stone, or timber within the borough ; to prevent or regulate the placing of obstructions of any kind whatsoever upon any wharf, street, river, or public place within the borough ; to prevent or regulate the placing of any writing or printing, or in any other way defacing any house, building, fence, or other erection whatsoever in the borough ; for compelling the cleaning of any private yards or places of any kind whatsoever within the borough ; for preventing the drowning of any animal, or the throwing of any offensive matter or matters likely to produce a nuisance, in any well, creek, river, or ofher water or watercourse within the borough • for punishing the driver of any vehicle or of any animal, or the rider of any animal, who hy negligence of any kind, injures any person or property within the borough ; for preventing or punishing any person riding or driving any animal without suffic.ent reins; for punishing any

..-;r~^-rs,y. driver or rider who, in passing other drivers or riders, does not observe the rule of the road ; for punishing any person who shall incite any dog to attack or annoy any person within the borough or shall stiller any dangerous dog to be at large within the borough ; for punishing the breaking of any windows in Any building within the borough; to provide for the licensing of all rooms and places used as public shooting-galleries, bowling-alleys, bagatelle, rooms- dr any piiblic rooms or places used for the playing of any other kind of game, unless the same be in ‘or attached to any premises holding an hotel license; and to makh subh regulations as the Council shall think fit respecting the use, inspection, hours of opening and closing, and in all respects as to the conduct of such rouitis or places; to prevent and punish the keeping and maintaining, or in any way the assisting in keeping or maintaining, whether by letting the premises, or in any other way whatsoever, of any house as a disorderly house, brothel, or house of ill-fame; to compel the owner or occupier of any land or premises in which there is any gully or hollow place, upon due notice from the Council, either to fill up the same or to clean it; and generally to prevent in any portion of the borough all nuisances, and all practices tending to endanger the lives of or to frighten or annoy the public.