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STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS [Original Service 2001]

MINISTRY OF WORKS (HARBOUR ISLAND) RULES

(SECTION 6) [Commencement 14th March, 1914]

1. These Rules may be cited as the Ministry of Works (Harbour Island) Rules.

2. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any public road, street or public ground, except for removal at the earliest opportunity, any stone, sand, lime, timber, wood or building material of any other kind; or any barrel, box, case, package or bundle of any description whatsoever:

Provided however, that upon application to the Minister being made permission may be granted for materials for building or repairing or other like purposes; and for materials of any description which are about to be used in connection with any sugar mill or factory; or sugar cane refuse or debris of any kind from any such mill or factory, which is not of an objectionable nature, to be so deposited for a limited time; provided that they are so deposited or placed as to prevent any mischief or obstruction to passengers using the said street, road or public ground.

3. No person shall discharge or deposit in or on any public road, street, sidewalk, wharf, or public ground any fruit skins, sugar, cane peelings, or refuse, stones, earth, weeds, sweepings of any kind, paper, rags, rubbish, filth, or other substance or liquid.

4. Nothing in these Rules shall be held to prevent the placing on the side of the road, of barrels, boxes or other proper receptacles containing the ordinary sweepings of yards or kitchens for removal by the scavenger; but such barrels, boxes or other proper receptacles shall only be placed on the side of the road on the days appointed by the Minister.

5. No person shall injure, destroy or meddle with any tree, shrub or plant, growing in any public street, square or ground.

G.N. 59/1914 G.N. 214/1953 5 of 1987

Citation.

No building materials, etc., to be left in public roads.

No fruit skins, etc., to be left in public roads.

Dustbins.

Injury to trees.

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6. No person shall stand, sit, or lounge on any wall or fence enclosing any tree, shrub, or plant growing in any public street, square or ground.

7. It shall be the duty of the scavenger appointed by the Minister to give daily attendance to his duties in Dunmore Town, except on Sundays, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, and on such other days as he may be permitted by the Minister to absent himself therefrom; and to sweep weed, and keep clean the several streets, lanes, footpaths, squares and abutments therein, and to keep clean the several drains and gutters therein; and to remove at least once a week, on the days appointed by the Minister, all sweepings of yards and kitchens when placed in barrels, boxes, or other proper receptacles at the sides of the roads. It shall also be the duty of the scavenger to remove and bury all dead animals which may be found in any public place as soon as possible after he shall have been notified thereof. It shall also be the duty of the scavenger to perform such other public work as may be reasonably required of him by the Minister from time to time.

8. Whenever any public road, street or lane shall be obstructed, encroached upon, or rendered inconvenient to passengers by reason of fallen or partly fallen buildings, walls or fences of any kind, or by fallen trees or parts of trees or by the overhanging of branches of trees, bushes, or vines, or creeping plants, or other substances of any kind; all such obstructions and nuisances shall be removed by the proprietors or tenants of the soil from which such buildings, walls, fences or trees shall have fallen, or from which such branches, vines or other creeping plants, or other substances shall so overhang the roadways as aforesaid within forty-eight hours after notice of such obstructions or nuisances shall be given to such proprietors or tenants as aforesaid by or under the authority of the Minister.

9. Any person committing a breach of any of the above Rules shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding four dollars.

Prohibition of lounging.

Duties of scavenger.

Obstruction of roads.

Penalty. 5 of 1987.

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STATUTE LAW OF THE BAHAMAS [Original Service 2001]

10. (1) For the purposes of this rule the limits of Dunmore Town shall be as follows —

On the north, Grant Street; on the south, Alice Street; and on the east and west, the sea.

(2) No person shall tether or keep in any manner any goat or sheep or any cattle in the Township of Dunmore Town, Harbour Island, or permit any goat or sheep or any cattle to be at large in the said town:

Provided that if a person wishes to keep in the said town goats, sheep and cattle in all not exceeding twelve in number for butchery only, then such person may make application to the Minister for permission to do so; and if the Minister is satisfied that the applicant is a bona fide butcher and that the goats, sheep and cattle referred to in the application will be properly enclosed the Minister shall authorise the applicant in writing to keep the said goats, sheep and cattle in the said township.

(3) Any person contravening the provisions of this rule shall be liable on first conviction to a fine of twenty dollars and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of forty dollars.

MINISTRY OF WORKS (GOVERNOR’S HARBOUR) RULES

(SECTION 6) [Commencement 1st December, 1923]

1. These Rules may be cited as the Ministry of Works (Governor’s Harbour) Rules.

2. No person shall deposit or place in any public road, street, or public ground, except for removal at the earliest possible opportunity, any stone, sand, lime, timber, wood, or building material of any other kind, or any barrel, box, spar, boom, case, package or bundle of any description whatsoever, unless the same are about to be used for building, repairing or other like purposes and are so deposited or placed as to prevent any mischief or obstruction to passengers using the said road, street or public ground.

Keeping of animals in Dunmore Town. G.N. 214/1953.

5 of 1987.

G.N. 423/1923 G.N. 161/1948 5 of 1987

Citation.

No building materials, etc., to be left in public roads.