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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 33, 25 February 1875, Page 2

• Public Advertisenienta. ;_. »" *..,'. r . _~J'_-. _1, :. , *-. -' ■"■ .^^'-r Municipality of Balclutha, ■DYE-LAWS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE INCORPORATED TOWN OF BALCLUTHA, MADE UNDER, AND IN PURSUANCE OF SECTIONS 181* PART XIII., OF THE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT, 186?. fAM L STREETS AND FOOTWAYS (1 ) PORTICOS PROJECTIONS £c. Interpretation. 1. The word " portico" shall mean and include every awning portico porch verandah shed shade or Covering upon or across any pu'Jfo footway for the purpose of shade or shelter together with the supports other than the building against wh,ich it sha.ll b.e of such portico, ' ~ Erection, of porticos. 2. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained it shall be lawful for the owner of any house or building abutting upon any public footway within the borough to erect or place against or in front of • such building and upon or across such footway such portico as such owner shall see it. :.-..; Height fyc of pjorticos, 3. Every such portico shall be supported by upright pillars or supports fixed on the outer line or of the footway and shall be in every part thereof of such height from the ground not less than seven feet and with the pillars or supports thereof shall be of such shape figure dimensions and materials respectively as shall have been appointed as herein provided. Regulations relating to porticos. 4. It shall be lawful for the council of every borough from time to time to' make regulations for ail or any of the purposes following that is to say — For regulating the height from the ground of such porticos as aforesaid. For appointing the shape figure dimensions and materials of suoh porticos And there shall be deposited at the offtoe of the council a plan and specification of such portico as shall be appointed in any such regulation and . such plan and specification shall be referred to in such regulation and shall be open for inspection by any ratepayer or person interested at all reasonable times without fee or reward. porticos erected contrary to bye-laws or regulations. Projections and obstructions. 5„ If before the coming into operation of this sub-division in the borough any portico shall have been erected or "placed against or in front of any building and upon or across any public footway contrary to some Act or Ordinance or bye-daw lawfully in force in the borough or in the city town or place converted into an original borough or if after such coming into operation any portico shall have been erected or placed against or iv front of any building and upon or. across any public footway otherwise than as shall haye. been appointed by some regulation, to be made hereunder or if any projecting window balcony step cellar cellardoor or wipdow or steps leading into any cellar or otherwise lamp, lamp-post lamp-iron sign sign-poßt sign-iron show-board window shutters wall gate fence or opening or any other projection or obstruction placed or made against or in front of any building within the borough after the coming into operation -of this sub-division therein shall^be annoyance in consequence of the same projecting into or being made in or upon or endangering or rendering less commodious the passage along any footway or street it shall be lawful for the council to give notice to the owner or occupier pf such building to remove or to alter so as to conform to such regulation such portico or to remove or in such manner as the council shall by such notice require to alter such projection or obstruction and such owner or occupier shall within fourteen days after the service of such notice upon him remove or in manner aforesaid respectively alter supb portico or such projection or obstruction as aforesaid respectively and if the owner or occupier of any such building neglect or refuse for fourteen days after such notice so served to remove such portico or such projection or obstruction or to alter the same in manner aforesaid respectively he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds and a further ?um. not exceeding forty shillings for! every day during which such projection or obstruction continues after the expiration of fourteen days from the time when he may be convicted of any si*.ch offence contrary to the provisions of this section. Porticos erected without violation of previous bye-laws. Projections and obstructions. Proviso. 6. If before tbe coming into operation of this subdivision in the borough any portico shall have been erected or placed without violation of any bye-law for the time being lawfully in force against or in front of any buildbg and upon or across any public footway laid out as such hereunder or otherwise and such portico shall not be in conformity with some regulation for the time being in force hereunder or if any such projection or obstruction as. in the last preceding section mentioned which has. been, pla.c.pd, or made against or in front of any building before such coming into operation as aforesaid shall be an, annoyance as in the said section mentioned it shall be lawfril for the Council to cause such portico to be removed .or altered so as to conform to such regulation or (as the case may be) such projection or obstruction to be removed or qlteped a.s they see fit. Provided that tJ^e council shall give notice of every such intended removal or. alteration .to the owner or occupier against or in front of •whqse buildir.g sucli portico projection or obstruction niay be seven 4ays before such ' removal or alteration shell be commenced and shall make reasonable compensation to be ascertained aad ordered if the parties differ, by two justices to eyery person who shall, incur any loss pr damage by such removal or alteration except in cashes where the portico projection or obstruction shall have been erected placed' or made without lawful right or against the law or may be removable tinder some other Act or law in which oase no compen. Ration shall be made. .. "':•-. fiepair fyc. of portico? , 7, Every owner or. qccupier of any building ftg^ust pr in front of which there shall be any portico shall keep the same clean, and in good repah? .and it shall be lawful for the council to give notice to any fitrcb owner or occupier* to 'clean pr repair such portico |f and a3 the same may require and every owner or pecupier who shall neglect or refuse within seven days.