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TOWN OF BERWICK BYLAW
NUISANCES
128.
Slaughter-houses shall only be erected and used for the slaughter of animals in such
places within the Town as the Town Council shall appoint and according to
regulations to be made by the Town Council of Board of Health, and no animal shall
be slaughtered or dressed for food within the Town except at a slaughter-house
erected or being in the place appointed by and in conformity with the regulations
made by the Town Council and Board of Health.
129.
An owner or occupier of lands in the Town shall cause all thistles and other noxious
weeds growing on the land owned or occupied by him in the Town to be cut and
destroyed and prevent the same so far as possible from growing on the said lands.
130.
Should any person after being notified by a public constable or any officer of the
Town to cut or destroy the thistles or weeds growing on the land so owned or
occupied by him refuse or neglect for five days so to do he shall be liable to a penalty
not exceeding Ten Dollars, or in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding five days.
131.
Such notice may be served on the owner or occupier personally or on his agent. In
case the owner does not reside in the Town and the lands are vacant or unoccupied the
notice may be served by mailing the same in the Post Office in an envelope addressed
to him at his usual or last place of abode or business with the proper postage prepaid
thereon. In case the owner or his address is unknown such notice may be given by
posting the same on the vacant lands.
132.
Where the owner or the address of the owner is unknown and the said land is
managed by an agent he may be deemed the owner or occupier as the case may be,
and notice may be given to him and he may be proceeded against for the said penalty
and expenses as though he were the owner or occupier.
133.
In case the owner or occupier of such lands after being notified so to do as in the
preceding section provided, refuses or neglects for five days to cut the said thistles or
other noxious weeds the Superintendent of Streets of the Town or such other person
as the Town Council may direct may cut or other wise destroy the same and the Town
Council may collect the costs and charges for so doing from the owner or occupier or
from the agent as hereinbefore provided as a private debt due to the Town by such
owner, occupier or agent.
History of this Bylaw:
Enacted -
July 9, 1963