BYELAWS for GOOD RULE and GOVERNMENT

1.  DEPOSIT OF LITTER

2.  NUISANCES CONTRARY TO PUBLIC DECENCY

BYELAWS FOR THE GOOD RULE AND GOVERNMENT OF THE BOROUGH OF SHREWSBURY AND FOR THE PREVENTION OF NUISANCES MADE BY THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH IN PURSUANCE OF SECTION 249 OF THE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1933

1. No person shall (except by permission of the owner or occupier of the person or authority having control thereof or unless authorised by law so to do) place or deposit and leave on or in:-

(a)  any highway or roadside waste;

(b)  Any common park recreation ground or other open space to which the public have access for the time being, or

(c)  any watercourse or ditch in or abutting on nay such highway roadside waste or other place aforementioned.

any glass china earthenware tin carton paper or other rubbish so as to create or tend to create a litter.

Provided that where an offence is committed against this byelaw and against any byelaw with respect to any pleasure ground public walk recreation ground park roadside waste common or open space or any limitation or condition imposed by the Minister of Agriculture Fisheries and Food under Section 193 of the Law of Property Act 1925, a person shall not be liable to more than one penalty in respect of the same offence.

2. Nuisances Contrary to Public Decency

 No person shall in any street or public place to the annoyance of residents or passengers commit any nuisance contrary to public decency or propriety.

3. Penalty
 
 Any person offending against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5.