CARTERTON LOCAL BOARD.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4832, 16 September 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

CARTERTON LOCAL BOARD.

Bye-Laws.

At meetings of the Local Board, held on the 17th and 27th of April, last, the following Bye-Laws were adopted, at Carterton: —

I. The Board may make such provision as it shall think lit, for the periodical removal from every dwelling-house 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. 11. Any person guilty of the following offences, omissions, or neglect, 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 othermaterial,uponany footpath, channel, surface drain, or carriage road, without f 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 conseqxience 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 neither 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 bo 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. 19. E~eeping any disreputable house or house of ill fame, 1 or having the eontrol or management of the same, or being a reputed occupier, or an inmate of any such house.

20. When any building materials, rubbish, or other things are laid, or any hole made in any street or footway, whether the same be done by order or authority of the Board or not, the person causing such materials or other things to be laid, or such hole to be made, shall, at his own expense, cause a sufficient light to be fixed in a proper place upon or near the same, and continue such light every night from sunset to sunrise, while such materials or hole remain; and such person shall cause, at his own expense, such materials or other things, and such hole to be sufficiently fenced and closed until such materials or other things are removed, or the hole filled up, or otherwise, made secure ; and every such person who fails so to light, fence, or enclose such materials or other things, or such hole, shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding ten pounds, and a further sum not exceeding forty shillings, for every day while such default is continued. 21. That no slaughter-house be allowed within the district.

22. That no'beast, pig, or sheep, be allowed to be slaughtered within the district, where the same may be deemed a nuisance.

23. That the footpaths in the township be nine feet on tho chain roads, and five feet on half chain roads. 24. That all verandahs erected over footpaths bo at loast eight feet high, and to extend to curbing of footpaths; and that no verandah be erected without permission from tho Board.

25. Any person who shall obstruct any officer or other person employed by

the Board in the performance of anything which such officer or other person is, or may be required, or authorised to do by or on behalf of the Board.

Regulation No. 1. Building Begulations. 1. Any person wishing to erect a verandah over any public footpath must, previous to commencing such erection, obtain from the Chairman of tho Board a written permission to do so. 2. Any verandah hereafter erected contrary to the regulations and provisions herein contained, shall be deemed a public nuisance, and as such shall be removed at the expense of the party causing such erections. Regulation- No. 2. Streets, Lanes, Bight of Ways, and Footpaths. 1. No streets that may bo laid oft' or made for the use of the public through private land within the district, shall be less than fifty links wide, and no lane or right of way shall exceed twelve links wide. Regulation- No. 3. 1. It shall not be lawful to keep any swine within the limits of two hundred links of a public highway. 2. No privy or cesspool shall be emptied, nor any nightsoil emptied away, nor any offensive liquor or matter of any kind whatsoever, pumped out of, or removed from any house, cellar, premises, within the district, except within the hours of midnight and six (6) o’clock a m. 8. It shall not be lawful for any person to make, or to place, or to keep, or continue any fence of brushwood, furze, or other like material, within the limits of the township, Every owner or occupier of any premises who shall make or place such fence or cause such fence to be made or placed ; and every owner or occupier of any premises who, after fourteen days’ notice from the Board to remove any such fence thereto appertaining, or who shall suffer any such or any part thereof to remain, shall forfeit on conviction for such offence a sum not exceeding five pounds, and in every such case a sum not exceeding forty shillings for every day after any such conviction during which such fence shall continue.

Eeguiation ISTo. 4. SawTcers.

1. Every person who shall exercise or carry on the business of hawker, pedlar, petty chapman, or any other trading person carrying to sell, or exposing for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise, within the district, shall be required to take out a license.

2. Such license shall be issued by the Commissioners to any person applying for the same, on the payment of one pound one shilling (£1 Is.), and such application shall be in writing, and signed by any two ratepayers and by the applicant. 3. Every such license shall be in the form in the Schedule hereto annexed, and the same shall be in force for six months from the date of the issue thereof.

4>. This regulation shall not extend to prevent any person from selling, or offering for sale, fish, fruit, farm or dairy produce, in the public streets or thoroughfares, or selling, or exposing for sale, any any sorts of goods or merchandise, in any public market, or any other public place set apart for the like purpose. 5. If any hawker, pedlar, or petty chapman,holding suchlicense as aforesaid, be convicted of selling stolen goods or merchandise, he shall forfeit his license. The Commissioners shall keep aregister of names, and places of abode, of all persons to whom such licenses shall be issued, and such register may be inspected by any person at reasonable times.-

SCHEDULE. Haiolcertf and Pedlars' License. Carterton Local Board.

Know all men by these presents that of having this day paid the sum of is hereby licensed to exercise the business or calling of a hawker and pedler from this date until the day of next. Dated day of 1876. Chairman.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Bye-Laws were passed by the Commissioners of the Carterton Local Board, on the aforestated dates. E. Eaiebeotheb, Chairman. I hereby, with the advice and consent of my Executive Council, approve of the foregoing ByeLaws and Regulations, this seventh day of August, 187 G. Henby Bunny, Deputy-Superintendent.