MERCER TOWN BOARD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 134, 19 January 1916, Page 3

MERCER TOWN BOARD.

By-Laws. Notice is hereby given that at a Special Meeting of the Mercer Town Board held on Wednesday, 2'Jnd day of December, l'Jl-5, the following resolution was passed and will be submitted for continuation at the Ordinary Meeting of the Board to be held on Wednesday, the 19th day of January, 1916, at 7.30 p.m., at the Offices of the Board at Mercer. RESOLUTION. In exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the* "Town Boards Act 190 H" and Part XLII of the "Municipal Corporations Act 1908" the Mercer Town Board in Special Meeting hereby approves 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 confirmiug this Resolution. The object and purport ol 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 1. Okdkk oi' Proceedings. To regulate the order of the proceedings of the Members of the Board. PART 11.

(iENEKAL. 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 tho plating upon or the burning of material in any Street without consent of the Board ; to prohibit the stacking of irutiamniable material within 40 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 tho 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 buildiDg upon any Street; to prohibit the rolling of any cask, breaking in of horses or the indulgence of any game in any Street to the annoyance or danger of the public ; to prevent furious or negligent driving; to forbid the salo 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 and 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 dug 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 propei ty in the district; to prohibit tho lingiug of any fire bell without just cause; to prohibit misbehaviour in any Street; to provide for the cleansing of chimneys; to prohibit thw storage of any explosive material without permission of the Board ; to prohibit the slaughter of animals in the Street: to forbid the obstruction of any Officer of the Board in the course of his duty ; to regulate the control of dogs ; to prohibit the use of barbed wire on any boundary fence . to prohibit the conduct or manageinect 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 auy 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, wetercourso, channel or gutter ; to provide for the repair of private Streets ; to prohibit the granting of any jight-oi-way without the consent of the Board ; to give power to the Board to partly or permanently improve any footpath and charge the owner or occupier of the premises affronting thereon a proportion of such cost: to prohibit the usa of defective scales : to regulato and control the keeping of public weighbridges,

PART 111. BUILDIN'.. To prescribe generally the regulations under which buildings within the district may be erected, added to, renewed, or repaired, and require plans and specifications of 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 imperials with which buildings may be constructed ; to regulate the construction of any stove, grate 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.

TART IV. eANIiAKV AMI PUKtIC HtALJII Tu regulate aud coutrol the structure aud building of privies aud sanitary conveniences ; to prescribe the material lor the building thereof; to provide means of access to aud for the ventilation, cleansing, repair aud number of and removal of nightsoil from such privies aud sanitary conveniences, and the distances at which they are to bo built frutu any house stream 01 wel} . to prohibit the pollution of any water for auy domestic, lowwercial or public purpose to provide for permits being obtained for any drainage work; to give power to the Board to contract for the i.uioval of uightsoil • and u\\ fees for such removal: to | prohibit the carting of uightsoil without permission of tho Board ; jto provide for tho cleansing of l gullies, hollows, drains, earth-closets, stables, dog-kennels, fowl-houses, I yards and ash-pits ;to prohibit the j throwing or leaving of any dead i animal or the discharge o£ any offensive matter into or upon any street, public place or water-course, ■ i

to require the removal of any filth, ashe?, dust, or rubbish upon any premises and to prescribe the manner of such removal; to provide for the drainage of storm water and the repair of pipes in connection therewith at the expense of the owner or occupier of any land from which such storm water flows. PART V. Public Halls. To regulate and control all public halls, billiard rooms and shooting galleries and require the same to be lic-nsed. PAET VI. As to Vehicles. To regulate and control the pace of vehicles and of horses and to require vehicles plying for hire either for passengers or goods and the driver thereof to be licensed. PART VII. Regulations for Heavy Traffic. To regulate and control heavy traffic and to provide for the width of tyres to be used on vehicles engaged on heavy traffic in the district and to require such vehicles to be licensed. PART VIII. As to Traction Engines. To regulate and control traction engines and to provide for the weight to be carried thereon or hauled thereby and to require such traction engines to be licensed. PART LX. Sale of Food. To regulate and control the sale of human food and to provide for any diseased or unwholesome food to be condemned. PART X. As to Hawkers To prohibit the sale of goods < within the district by hawkeis without license and prescribing the fees for such license. PART XL Licenses To provide that all licenses issued by these By-laws shall expire on the 31st day of December, following the date of issue and for an abatement of license feeß where licenses are issued after the 30th day of June in any year. PART XII. Penalties To provide for penalties for the breach of any of these By-laws. A copy of the proposed By-laws is deposited at the Office of the Board, Mercer, and will be open t) the inspection of the Public during office hours from this date to the said 19th day of January next. Dated this 24th day of December, 1915. PERCY N. KING, 1291 Town Clerk.