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BE IT RESOLVED by the Municipal Council of the Municipality of the
County of Inverness that by-law No.
7 Municipal Property and
Streets be repealed and re-enacted as follows:
BY-LAW 7
MUNICIPAL PROPERTY AND STREETS
CUSTODY
1.
Unless otherwise provided, and subject to the direction
and control of the Council and Warden, the Clerk shall have
the general custody and control of all Municipal property and
of property subject to the management of the Municipality.
OFFENCES
2.
Any person who:
(a) Destroys, damages, or blemishes any property of or under
the care or management of the Municipality; or
(b) Removes or causes to be removed any soil, gravel, trees,
sand, or stones from land of or under the care or management
of the Municipality;
(c) Deposits or cause to be deposited any soil, gravel, sand,
stone, garbage, filth, refuse or other material on lands of or
under the care or management of the Municipality; shall be
liable to a penalty of not more than One Hundred Dollars for
each offence and in default of payment to imprisonment
for a
period of not more than (10) days.
3.
(1) Any person who:
(a) Obstructs or causes an obstruction in any public place or
way; or
(b) Places or causes to be placed any building or fence in.
such a manner that it projects into or over any public place
or way; shall, upon Notice having been served upon him/her,
remove the said building or fence within the time limited by
the said notice.
(2) Where a person fails to remove such building or fence
within the time limited in such Notice, the Warden or Clerk
may order the said building or fence to be removed at the
expense of the person who owns it, or who placed or caused it
to be placed in contravention of this section, and such person
shall be liable for the cost of such removal.
4.
(1) Any person who uses a field which abuts on any public
place or way, for horses, cattle, sheep, swine or other
animals likely to stray from such field, shall erect and
maintain a fence around such field sufficient to prevent such
animals from straying from or breaking out of such field.
(2) A fence, as required by this section, which has been
approved by a fence viewer, shall be deemed suffi,fient under
this section, but this subsection shall not affect the duty
to maintain such fence.
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(3) Any person who fails to erect or maintain a fence as
required by this section shall be liable to a penalty of not
more than One Hundred Dollars and in default of payment to
imprisonment for a period of not more than ten days.
5. (1) No person shall drive or ride any horae, cow, sheep, swine
or other animal
(a) On any sidewalk; or
(b) On or in any other public place or way which is not a
highway; where the passage or excrement of such animal would
be likely to cause annoyance or does cause annoyance to any
person or persons using the sidewalk or public place or way.
(2) Any person who violates this section shall be liable to a
penalty of not more than One Hundred Dollars for each offence,
and in default to imprisonment for a period of not more than
ten days.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the foregoing
by law is a true copy of a bylaw duly
passed at a duly called meeting of the
Municipal Council of the Municipality
of the County of Inverness duly held
on the 11th- day of July A.O., 1994
DEPARTMENT OF MUNICIPAL AFFAlfW"
Reccomended for
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