Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854

Penalty on Persons committing any of the Offences herein named.

LXXII. Every Person who in any Street, to the Obstruction, Annoyance, or Danger of the Residents or Passengers, commits any of the following Offences, shall be liable to a Penalty for each Offence as herein-after mentioned; and any Constable or other Officer appointed by virtue of this Act shall take into Custody, without Warrant, and forthwith convey before a Justice or Justices, any Person who within his View commits any such Offence; (that is to say,)

Every Person who exposes for Show, Hire, or Sale (except in a Market or Market Place or Fair lawfully appointed for that Purpose) any Horse or other Animal; or exhibits in a Caravan or otherwise any Show or public Entertainment; or shoes, bleeds, or farries any Horse or Animals (except in Cases of Accident); or cleans, dresses, trains, or breaks, or turns loose any Horse or Animal; or makes or repairs any Part of any Cart or Carriage (except in Cases of Accident where Repair on the Spot is necessary), shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious Dog, or sets on or urges any Dog or other Animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any Person or Animal, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Owner of any Dog who suffers such Dog to go at large, knowing or having reasonable Ground for believing it to be in a rabid State, or to have been bitten by any Dog or other Animal in a rabid State, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who, after public Notice given by any Justice or Justices at Petty Sessions, Chief Magistrate, or Chairman of Commissioners, directing Dogs to be confined on account of Suspicion of canine Madness, suffers any Dog to be at large during the Time specified in such Notice, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who slaughters or dresses any Cattle, or any Part thereof, except in the Case of any Cattle over-driven which may have met with any Accident, and which for the public Safety or other reasonable Cause ought to be killed on the Spot, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person having the Care of any Waggon, Cart, or Carriage, who rides on the Shafts thereof; or who, without having Reins, and holding the same, rides upon such Waggon, Cart, or Carriage or on any Animal drawing the same; or who is at such a Distance from such Waggon, Cart, or Carriage as not to have due Control over every Animal drawing the same; or who does not, in meeting any other Carriage, keep his Waggon, Cart, or Carriage to the left or near Side, or who in passing any other Carriage does not keep his Waggon, Cart, or Carriage on the right or off Side of the Road (except in Cases of actual Necessity, or some sufficient Reason for Deviation); or who, by obstructing the Street, wilfully prevents any Person or Carriage from passing him, or any Waggon, Cart, or Carriage under his Care, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who at One Time drives more than Two Carts or Waggons, and every Person driving Two Carts or Waggons who has not the Halter of the Horse in the last Cart or Waggon securely fastened to the Back of the First Cart or Waggon, or has such Halter of a greater Length from such Fastening to the Horse’s Head than Four Feet, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who rides or drives furiously any Horse or Carriage, or drives furiously any Cattle, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who causes any public Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow, with or without Horses, or any Beast of Burden, to stand longer than is necessary for loading or unloading Goods, or for taking up or setting down Passengers (except Hackney Carriages, and Horses and other Beasts of Draught or Burden, standing for Hire in any Place appointed for that Purpose by the Commissioners or other lawful Authority); and every Person who, by means of any Cart, Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow, or any Animal, or other Means, wilfully interrupts any public Crossing, or wilfully causes any Obstruction in any public Footpath or other public Thoroughfare, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who causes any Tree or Timber, or Iron Beam, to be drawn in or upon any Carriage, without having sufficient Means of safely guiding the same, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who leads or rides any Horse or other Animal, or draws or drives any Cart or Carriage, Sledge, Truck, or Barrow, upon any Footway of any Street, or fastens any Horse or other Animal so that it stands across or upon any Footway, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who places or leaves any Furniture, Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, or any Cask, Tub, Basket, Pail, or Bucket, or places or uses any Standing-place, Stool, Bench, Stall, or Showboard on any Footway, or who places any Blind, Shade, Covering, Awning, or other Projection over and along any such Footway, unless such Blind, Shade, Covering, Awning, or other Projection is Eight Feet in Height at least in every Part thereof from the Ground, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who places, hangs up, or otherwise exposes to Sale any Goods, Wares, Merchandise, Matter, or Thing whatsoever, so that the same project into or over any Footway, or beyond the Line of any House, Shop, or Building at which the same are so exposed, so as to obstruct or incommode the Passage of any Person over or along such Footway, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who rolls or carries any Cask, Tub, Hoop, or Wheel, or any Ladder, Plank, Pole, Timber, or Log of Wood, upon any Footway, except for the Purpose of loading or unloading any Cart or Carriage, or of crossing the Footway, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every Person who places any Line, Cord, or Pole across any Street, or hangs or places any Clothes thereon, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Twenty Shillings:

Every common Prostitute or Nightwalker loitering and importuning Passengers for the Purpose of Prostitution, or being otherwise offensive, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings:

Every Person who wilfully and indecently exposes his Person, or who commits any Act contrary to public Decency, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings:

Every Person who publicly offers for Sale or Distribution, or exhibits to public View, any profane, indecent, or obscene Book, Paper, Print, Drawing, Painting, or Representation, or sings any profane or obscene Song or Ballad, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings:

Every Person who wantonly discharges any Fire-arm, or throws or discharges any Stone or other Missile, or makes any Bonfire, or throws or sets fire to any Firework, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who wilfully and wantonly disturbs any Inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any Door Bell, or knocking at any Door, or who wilfully and unlawfully extinguishes the Light of any Lamp, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings:

Every Person who flies any Kite, or who makes or uses any Slide upon Ice or Snow, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who cleanses, hoops, fires, washes, or scalds any Cask or Tub, or hews, saws, bores, or cuts any Timber or Stone, or slacks, sifts, or screens any Lime, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who throws or lays down any Stones, Coals, Slate, Shells, Lime, Bricks, Timber, Iron, or other Materials (except Building Materials so enclosed as to prevent Mischief to Passengers), shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who beats or shakes any Carpet, Rug, or Mat (except Rugs or Mats beaten or shaken before the Hour of Nine in the Morning), shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who fixes or places any Flower Pot or Box, or other heavy Article, in any upper Window, without sufficiently guarding the same against being blown down, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who throws from the Roof or any Part of any House or other Building any Slate, Brick, Wood, Rubbish, or other Thing, except Snow thrown so as not to fall on any Passenger, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who leaves open any Vault or Cellar, or the Entrance from any Street to any Cellar or Room underground, without a sufficient Fence or Handrail; or leaves defective the Door, Window, or other Covering of any Vault, Area, or Cellar, or who does not sufficiently fence any Area, Pit, or Sewer left open; or who leaves such open Area, Pit, or Sewer without a sufficient Light after Sunset to warn and prevent Persons from falling thereinto, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who throws or lays any Dirt, Dung, Litter or Ashes, or Nightsoil, or any Carrion, Fish, Offal, or Rubbish, on any Street, or Sea Beach, or Strand within the Boundaries of a Town, or causes any offensive Matter to run from any Manufactory, Brewery, Slaughter-house, Butcher’s Shop, or Dunghill, into any Street: Provided always, that it shall not be deemed an Offence to lay Sand or other Materials in any Street in Time of Frost to prevent Accidents, or Litter or other suitable Materials to prevent the freezing of Water in Pipes, or in case of Sickness to prevent Noise, if the Party laying any such Things causes them to be removed as soon as the Occasion for them ceases, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Ten Shillings:

Every Person who keeps any Pigstye to the Front of any Street, not being shut out from such Street by a sufficient Wall or Fence, or who keeps any Swine in or near any Street, so as to be a common Nuisance, shall be liable to a Fine not exceeding Forty Shillings:

Every Person drunk in any Street or guilty of any riotous or indecent Behaviour in any Street, Police Office, or Petty Sessions Court, or any Police Station House within the Town, shall be liable to a Penalty not exceeding Forty Shillings for every such Offence, or, in the Discretion of the Justice or Justices before whom he is convicted, to Imprisonment for a Period not exceeding Seven Days.