Horse-napping law suspended
CN.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) CHARLESTON.
The Charleston, South Carolina, ordinance requiring carriage horses to wear nappies will be suspended for 30 days, and a new pollution measure tried: a motorcyclist will be dispatched with brush and shovel when his clean-up services are required. In the week since the horse-nappy law was passed, only one carriage-tour operator has put nappies on his horses. Another, summoned for driving a horse without nappies, is challenging the constitutionality of the law.
Carriage tours through the streets of Old Charleston have long been a favourite pastime of tourists and local residents.
The horse-nappy ordinance was drafted at the urging of local merchants, who complained that the horses were soiling the streets; but city officials and carriage operators have agreed to suspend enforcement of the law during a 30-day trial of the new pick-up service sponsored by three local businesses.
The agreement calls for each carriage-driver to carry a radio to call the mobile cleaning service when it is required.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19751210.2.187.9
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 10 December 1975, Page 27
Word Count
166Horse-napping law suspended Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34021, 10 December 1975, Page 27
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.