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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 130, 10 January 1916, Page 3

MERCER TOWN BOARD. By-Laws. Notice is hereby given that at a I Special Meeting of the Mercer Town ! Board held on Wednesday, 22nd day'of December, 191-5, the following resolution was passed and wil be submitted for coDiirmation at the Ordinary Meeting of the Board to be held on Wednesday, the l'Jth day of January, 1916, at 7.30 p.m., at the Offices of the Board at Mercer. KE3OLUTION. In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the "Town Boards Act 1908" and Part XLII of the "Municipal Corporations A.ct 1908 the Mercer Town Board in Special Meeting hereby approyes and adopts the By-Laws as now signed by the Chairman and directs that a Meeting of the Board be held on Wednesday, the 19th day of January, 1916 at the Offices of the Board at Mercer for the purposes of continuing this Resolution. The object and purport of the Bylaws are to regulate, control or license within the Town District of Mercer the following matters To provide for Penalties for the breach of any of these By-laws. PART I. Order oi' Proceedings. To regulate the order of the proceedings of the Members of the Board. PART 11. Ueneral. To provide the manner of service of notices or other documents on or on behalf of the Board ; to control the condition of hedges; to prohibit the placing upon or the burning of material in any Street without consent of the Board; to prohibit the stacking of imiiammable material within -10 ft. of any building or Street; to prohibit injury to Street; to prohibit the discharge of missies or fire-arms in any Street; to provide for the safety of passengers along streets during excavation or building operations ; to forbid the placing of any placard or other writing upon property; to forbid droppings from the eaves of any building upon any Street; ti> prohibit the rolling of any cask, breaking in of horses or the indulgence of auy game in any Street to the aunoyance or danger ot the public ; to prevent furious or negligent driving; to forbid the sale of animals in any Street; to regulate the construction of cellarflaps ; to prohibit the keeping of pigs within 66ft. of any dwelling house; to provide for fencing aud illumination in any Street; to prohibit the leaving of any rail, gate, fence, or cover or any entrance to cellar abutting upon any Street in any manner calculated to be a danger to the public ; to prohibit the driving of any dog or goat harnessed to any vehicle along any Street; to prohibit the turning loose of cattle in any Street; to regulate and control the movements of cattle driven through a Street ; to prohibit the assemblage in any Street of persons so as to impede passengers; to prohibit the defacing or injury of any property in the district; to prohibit the ringing of any tire bell without just cause; to prohibit misbehaviour in any Street; to provide for the cleansing of chimneys; to prohibit the storage of any explosive material without permission of the Board ; to prohibit the slaughter of animals in the Street; to forbid the obstruction of auy Officer of the Board ip the course of his duty ; to regulate the control of dogs; to prohibit the use of barbed wire ou any boundary fence , to prohibit the conduct or managemect of any disorderly house; to prohibit the erection of sign boards without permission ; to give power to the Board to affix to any house or building the name of any Street; to prohibit other persons affixing names of Streets in anywise without authority from the Board; to provide for excess and crossings over any footpath, watercourse, channel or gutter; to provide for the repair of any footpath, watercourse, channel or gutter ; to provide for the repair of private Streets ; to prohibit the granting of auy light-of-way without the consent of the Board ; to give power to the Board to partly or permanently improve any footpath and charge l the owner or occupier of the premises affronting thereon a proportion of such cost; to prohibit the use of defective scales ; to regulate and control the keeping of public weighbridges.

PAIIT 111. Bl'lLUlNi'. To prescribe generally the regulations under which buildings within the district may be erected, added to, renewed, or repaired, and require plans and specifications ol such work to be lodged and a permit for the same obtained; to provide for the inspection of such work and authorising the Board to compel the removal of any work begun in contravention to the By-laws , to prescribe the materials with which buildings may be constructed ; to regulate the construction of any stove, grato or heating apparatus therein ; to provide for a grading of any ground underlying any building ; to provide for the proper ventilation of a building and authority to the Board to condemn any such building.

PART IV. Sanitary ami Public lllauh To regulate and control the structure and building of privies and sanitary conveniences ; to prescribe the material for the building thereof; to provide means of access to and for the ventilation, cleausiug, repair and number of and removal of nightsoil from such privies and sanitary couveniencos, and the distances at which thoy are to be built from any house, stream or well; to prohibit the pollution of any water for any domestic, commercial or public puipose; to'provide for permits being obtained for any drainage work; to give power to the Board to contract for the removal of nightsoil and ti\ fees for such removal. to prohibit the carting of nightsoil without permission of the Board ; to provide for the cleansing of gullies, hollows, drains, earth-closets, stables, dog-kennels, fowl-houses, yards and ash nits; to (prohibit the throwing or leaving of any dead animal or the dieiharg"' of anj offensive matter into or upon any street, public place or water-couise, to require the removal of any