TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 28 Penalty on persons committing any of the offences herein named.

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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 28

Penalty on persons committing any of the offences herein named.

28. 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 not exceeding [#2] for each offence, or, in the
discretion of the justice before whom he is convicted, may be committed to
prison, there to remain for a period not exceeding fourteen days; and any
constable or other officer appointed by virtue of this or the special Act
shall take into custody, without warrant, and forthwith convey before a
justice, any person who within his view commits any such offence; (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 animal (except in cases of accident),
or cleans, dresses, exercises, 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):

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:

...

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:

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:

...

Every person who rides or drives furiously any horse or carriage, or drives
furiously any cattle:

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 commissioners
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 throughfare:

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:

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:

Every person who places or leaves any furniture, goods, wares, or merchandize,
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 or 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:

Every person who places, hangs up, or otherwise exposes to sale any goods,
wares, merchandize, 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:

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:

Every person who places any line, cord, or pole across any street, or hangs or
places any clothes thereon:

Every common prostitute or nightwalker loitering and importuning passengers
for the purpose of prostitution:

Every person who wilfully and indecently exposes his person:

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,
or uses any profane or obscene language:

Every person who wantonly ... throws or discharges any stone or other missile,
or makes any bonfire, or throws or sets fire to any firework:

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:

Every person who flies any kite, or who makes or uses any slide upon ice or
snow:

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:

Every person who throws or lays down any stones, coals, slate, shells, lime,
bricks, timber, iron, or other materials (except building materials so
inclosed as to prevent mischief to passengers):

Every person who beats or shakes any carpet, rug, or mat (except door mats
beaten or shaken before the hour of eight in the morning):

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:

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:

Every occupier of any house or other building, or other person, who orders or
permits any person in his service to stand on the sill of any window, in order
to clean, paint or perform any other operation upon the outside of such
window, or upon any house or other building within the said limits, unless
such window be in the sunk or basement story:

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
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:

Every person who throws or lays any dirt, litter or ashes, or night-soil, or
any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, on any street, 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 things causes them to be removed as soon as the occasion
for them ceases:

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.

S.29 rep. by 1968 c.28 (NI) s.16 sch.4

And with respect to fires:
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TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT 1847 - SECT 28
