PUBLIC LIGHTING ORDINANCE

PUBLIC LIGHTING ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 105.

PUBLIC LIGHTING.

To Provide for the, public lighting of the Colony and for the
protection of the appliances used in connexion therewith.

[8th May 1914.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Lighting Ordinance.

2. It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works
to cause a sufficient number of posts, standards and brackets
for the lighting of the public or private streets, roads, ways
and thoroughfares in the Colony or for the control of
pedestrian and vehicular traffic therein to be provided and
to be set up, fixed or erected in all suitable situations for
such lighting or control, whether in any of the said streets,
roads, ways and thoroughfares or in any place adjacent
thereto or upon or against the wall of any house or building
or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he may
think proper; and it shall also be lawful for him to cause
to be provided and put and affixed upon the said posts.
standards and brackets such a number of lamps and of such
sizes and sorts respectively as may be found requisite for
the lighting or control of the said streets, roads, ways and
thoroughfares respectively.

3. The laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying
away or stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively shall be
interpreted to apply to the removing, taking, carrying away
or stealing of any of the poasts, standards, brackets or lamps
provided under this Ordinance; and the property of and
in all or any of such posts, standards, brackets or lamps
shall be deemed to be vested in the Director of Public Works
for all the purposes of any proceedings, civil or criminal,
in relation thereto.

4. Every person who wilfully injures, displaces or damages any of
the posts, standards or brackets provided under this Ordinance or who
wilfully extinguishes, obscures or interferes in any way with the light
of any lamp provided





under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine
of two hundred dollars in addition to the full arnount of the damage
and all incidental costs and expenses.

5. It shall be lawful for any person witnessing the commission of
an offence against section 4 to seize the said offender and to deliver
him to any constable or to a magistrate; and no warrant shall be in any
case necessary to justify the apprehension of any such offender.

6. When any damage or injury has been occasioned to any of the
posts, standards, brackets or lamps provided under this Ordinance by
any person otherwise than wilfully, and such person has not made
satisfaction for the same, it shall be the duty of a magistrate, on
complaint thereof made, to order and compel the said person to make
full satisfaction for the amount of such damage or injury, together with
all incidental costs and expenses.

7. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed to affect
any liability imposed by section 109 of the Buildings Ordinance, upon
the owners of the land fronting, adjoining or abutting on any street on
land held under lease from the Crown on which buildings front, adjoin
or abut.
Originally 13 of 1914. Fraser 13 of 1914. 28 of 1940. 22 of 1950. Short title. Director of public works to have power to erect lamp posts and affix lamps thereon. 28 of 1940, s. 2. 28 of 1940, s. 2. Property in lamp posts and lamps to be vested in Director of Public Works. Damaging, lamp posts or lamp or light of lamps. 22 of 1950. Schedule. Apprehension without warrant of offender. Compensation to be paid for damage other than wilful. Saving (Cap. 123.)

Originally 13 of 1914. Fraser 13 of 1914. 28 of 1940. 22 of 1950. Short title. Director of public works to have power to erect lamp posts and affix lamps thereon. 28 of 1940, s. 2. 28 of 1940, s. 2. Property in lamp posts and lamps to be vested in Director of Public Works. Damaging, lamp posts or lamp or light of lamps. 22 of 1950. Schedule. Apprehension without warrant of offender. Compensation to be paid for damage other than wilful. Saving (Cap. 123.)

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