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Prohibition of other nuisances.
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17. Every person who in any street or public place within the limits of the police district shall be guilty of any of the following offences shall be liable to a penalty not more than forty shillings for every such offence; (that is to say,)
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1. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall burn, dress, or cleanse any cork, or hoop, cleanse, fire, wash, or scald any cask or tub, or hew, saw, bore, or cut any timber or stone, or slack, sift, or screen any lime:
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2. Every person who shall throw or lay in any thoroughfare any coals, stones, slates, shells, lime, bricks, timber, iron, or other materials (except building materials, or rubbish thereby occasioned, which shall be placed or enclosed so as to prevent any mischief happening to passengers):
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3. Every person who in any thoroughfare shall beat or shake any carpet, rug, or mat, (except door mats before the hour of eight in the morning,) or throw or lay any dirt, litter, or ashes, or any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, or throw or cause any such thing to fall into any sewer, pipe, or drain, or into any well, stream, or watercourse, pond or reservior for water, or cause any offensive matter to run from any manufactory, brewery, slaughterhouse, butcher’s shop, or dunghill, into any thoroughfare, or any uncovered place, whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence; but it shall not be deemed an offence to lay sand or other materials in any thoroughfare in time of frost to prevent accidents, or litter or other materials to prevent the freezing of water in pipes, or in case of sickness to prevent noise, if the party laying any such things shall cause them to be removed as soon as the occasion for them shall cease:
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4. Every person who shall empty or begin to empty any privy between the hours of six in the morning and twelve at night, or remove along any thoroughfare any nightsoil, soap lees, ammoniacal liquor, or other such offensive matter, between the hours of six in the morning and eight in the evening, or who shall at any time use for any such purpose any cart or carriage not having a proper covering, or shall wilfully or carelessly slop or spill any such offensive matter in the removal thereof, or who shall not carefully sweep or clean every place in which any such offensive matter shall have been placed, slopped, or spilled; and, in default of the apprehension of the actual offender, the owner of the cart or carriage employed for any such purpose shall be deemed to be the offender: Provided always, that this enactment shall not be construed to prevent the commissioners for paving and lighting and cleansing the streets of Dublin, within the metropolitan police district aforesaid, or any person acting in their service or by their direction, from emptying or removing along any thoroughfare at any time the contents of any sewer which they are authorized to cleanse or empty:
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5. Every person who shall keep any pigstye to the front of any street or road in any town within the said district, not being shut out from such street or road by a sufficient wall or fence, or who shall keep any swine in or near any street, or in any dwelling so as to be a common nuisance:
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6. Every occupier of a house or other tenement in any town within the said district who shall not keep sufficiently swept and cleansed all footways and watercourses adjoining the premises occupied by him; and if any tenement be empty or unocupied, the owner thereof shall be deemed the occupier with reference to this enactment:
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7. Every person who shall expose anything for sale in any park or public garden, unless with the consent of the owner or other person authorized to give such consent, or upon or so as to hang over any carriageway or footway, or on the outside of any house or shop; or who shall set up or continue any pole, blind, awning line, or any other projection from any window, parapet, or other part of any house, shop, or other building, so as to cause any annoyance or obstruction in any thoroughfare:
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8. Every person who, to the danger of passengers in any thoroughfare, shall leave open any vault or cellar, or the entrance from any thoroughfare to any cellar or room underground, without a sufficient fence or hand rail, or leave defective the door, window, or other covering of any vault or cellar, or who shall not sufficiently fence any area, pit, or sewer left open in or adjoining to any thoroughfare, or who shall leave such open area, pit, or sewer, without a sufficient light after sunset, to warn and prevent persons from falling thereinto.
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