TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1854 - SECT 72 Penalty on persons committing certain offences.

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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1854 - SECT 72

Penalty on persons committing certain offences.

72. Every person who in any street, to the obstruction, annoyance, or danger
of the residents or passengers, commits any of the following offences, shall
be liable to a penalty for each offence as herein-after mentioned; and any
constable or other officer appointed by virtue of this Act shall take into
custody, without warrant, and forthwith convey before a justice or justices,
any person who within his view commits any such offences; (that is to say,)

Every person who exposes for show, hire, or sale, (except in a market or
market place or fair lawfully appointed for that purpose,) any horse or other
animal; or exhibits in a caravan or otherwise any show or public
entertainment; or shoes, bleeds, or farries any horse or animals (except in
cases of accident); or cleans, dresses, trains, or breaks, or turns loose any
horse or animal; or makes or repairs any part of any cart or carriage (except
in cases of accident where repair on the spot is necessary); shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious dog, or sets
on or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any
person or animal, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every owner of any dog who suffers such dog to go at large, knowing or having
reasonable ground for believing it to be in a rabid state, or to have been
bitten by any dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who, after public notice given by any justice or justices at
petty sessions, chief magistrate, or [the district council], directing dogs to
be confined on account of suspicion of canine madness, suffers any dog to be
at large during the time specified in such notice, shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who slaughters or dresses any cattle, or any part thereof, except
in the case of any cattle over-driven which may have met with any accident,
and which for the public safety or other reasonable cause ought to be killed
on the spot, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding[#20]:

Every person having the care of any waggon, cart, or carriage, who rides on
the shafts thereof; or who, without having reins, and holding the same, rides
upon such waggon, cart, or carriage, or on any animal drawing the same; or who
is at such a distance from such waggon, cart, or carriage, as not to have due
control over every animal drawing the same; or who does not, in meeting any
other carriage, keep his waggon, cart, or carriage to the left or near side,
or who in passing any other carriage does not keep his waggon, cart, or
carriage on the right or off side of the road (except in cases of actual
necessity, or some sufficient reason for deviation); or who, by obstructing
the street, wilfully prevents any person or carriage from passing him, or any
waggon, cart, or carriage under his care; shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding [#20]:

Every person who at one time drives more than two carts or waggons, and every
person driving two carts or waggons who has not the halter of the horse in the
last cart or waggon securely fastened to the back of the first cart or waggon,
or has such halter of a greater length from such fastening to the horse's head
than four feet, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who rides or drives furiously any horse or carriage, or drives
furiously any cattle, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who causes any public carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, with or
without horses, or any beast of burden, to stand longer than is necessary for
loading or unloading goods, or for taking up or setting down passengers
(except hackney carriages, and horses and other beasts of draught or burden,
standing for hire in any place appointed for that purpose by the [district
council] or other lawful authority); and every person who, by means of any
cart, carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, or any animal, or other means,
wilfully interrupts any public crossing, or wilfully causes any obstruction in
any public footpath, or other public thoroughfare; shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who causes any tree or timber, or iron beam, to be drawn in or
upon any carriage, without having sufficient means of safely guiding the same,
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who leads or rides any horse or other animal, or draws or drives
any cart or carriage, sledge, truck, or barrow, upon any footway of any
street, or fastens any horse or other animal so that it stands across or upon
any footway, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who places or leaves any furniture, goods, wares, or merchandise,
or any cask, tub, basket, pail, or bucket, or places or uses any
standing-place, stool, bench, stall, or showboard, on any footway, or who
places any blind, shade, covering, awning, or other projection over and along
any such footway, unless such blind, shade, covering, awning, or other
projection is eight feet in height at least in every part thereof from the
ground, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding[#20]:

Every person who places, hangs up, or otherwise exposes to sale any goods,
wares, merchandise, matter, or thing whatsoever, so that the same project into
or over any footway, or beyond the line of any house, shop, or building at
which the same are so exposed, so as to obstruct or incommode the passage of
any person over or along such footway, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
[#20]:

Every person who rolls or carries any cask, tub, hoop, or wheel, or any
ladder, plank, pole, timber, or log of wood, upon any footway, except for the
purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the
footway, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who places any line, cord, or pole across any street, or hangs or
places any clothes thereon, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every common prostitute or nightwalker loitering and importuning passengers
for the purpose of prostitution, or being otherwise offensive, shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who wilfully and indecently exposes his person, or who commits
any act contrary to public decency, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
[#20]:

Every person who publicly offers for sale or distribution or exhibits to
public view, any profane, indecent, or obscene book, paper, print, drawing,
painting, or representation, or sings any profane or obscene song or ballad,
shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who wantonly ... throws or discharges any stone or other missile,
or makes any bonfire, or throws or sets fire to any firework, shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who wilfully and wantonly disturbs any inhabitant by pulling or
ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door, or who wilfully and unlawfully
extinguishes the light of any lamp, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
[#20]:

Every person who flies any kite, or who makes or uses any slide upon ice or
snow, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who cleanses, hoops, fires, washes, or scalds any cask or tub, or
hews, saws, bores, or cuts any timber or stone, or slacks, sifts, or screens
any lime, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who throws or lays down any stones, coals, slate, shells, lime,
bricks, timber, iron, or other materials, (except building materials so
enclosed as to prevent mischief to passengers,) shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding [#20]:

Every person who beats or shakes any carpet, rug, or mat, (except rugs or mats
beaten or shaken before the hour of nine in the morning,) shall be liable to a
fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who fixes or places any flower pot or box, or other heavy
article, in any upper window, without sufficiently guarding the same against
being blown down, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who throws from the roof or any part of any house or other
building any slate, brick, wood, rubbish, or other thing, except snow thrown
so as not to fall on any passenger, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
[#20]:

Every person who leaves open any vault or cellar, or the entrance from any
street to any cellar or room underground, without a sufficient fence or
handrail; or leaves defective the door, window, or other covering of any
vault, area, or cellar; or who does not sufficiently fence any area, pit, or
sewer left open; or who leaves such open area, pit, or sewer without a
sufficient light after sunset to warn and prevent persons from falling
thereinto; shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who throws or lays any dirt, dung, litter, or ashes, or
night-soil, or any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, on any street, or sea
beach, or strand, within [a district], or causes any offensive matter to run
from any manufactory, brewery, slaughter-house, butcher's shop, or dunghill,
into any street: Provided always, that it shall not be deemed an offence to
lay sand or other materials in any street in time of frost to prevent
accidents, or litter or other suitable materials to prevent the freezing of
water in pipes, or in case of sickness to prevent noise, if the party laying
any such thing causes them to be removed as soon as the occasion for them
ceases; shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [#20]:

Every person who keeps any pigstye to the front of any street, not being shut
out from such street by a sufficient wall or fence, or who keeps any swine in
or near any street, so as to be a common nuisance, shall be liable to a fine
not exceeding [#20]:

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Ss.7376 rep. by SLR (NI) 1954; 1968 c.28 (NI) s.16 sch.4

For fixing the stands of bathing machines on the seashore or strand, and the
limits within which persons of each sex shall be set down for bathing, and
within which persons shall bathe:

For regulating the occupation of such stands of bathing machines, and
apportioning the same temporarily among the owners of such machines for the
time:

For preventing any indecent exposure of the persons of the bathers:

For regulating the manner in which and the times at which the bathing machines
shall be used, and the charges to be made for the same:

For ensuring that the bathing machines shall be kept in a proper state of
repair:

For regulating the distance at which boats and vessels let to hire for the
purpose of sailing or rowing for pleasure shall be kept from persons bathing
within such prescribed limits.

And with respect to hackney carriages:
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TOWNS IMPROVEMENT (IRELAND) ACT 1854 - SECT 72
