BYELAWS RELATING TO NUISANCES

BYELAWS

MADE BY THE MAYOR, ALDERMAN, AND BURGESSES OF THE BOROUGH OF SHREWSBURY, SCTING BY THE COUNCIL, WITH RESPECT TO NUISANCES IN THE BOROUGH OF SHREWSBURY

Interpretation of Terms

1. Throughout these byelaws the expression "the Council" means the Mayor, Alderman, and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury, acting by the Council, and the expression "the district" means the Borough of Shrewsbury.

For the prevention of nuisances arising from snow, filth, dust, ashes, and rubbish, and for the prevention of the keeping of animals on any premises so as to be injurious to health.

2. Every person who shall remove any snow from any premises or from any footway shall avoid any undue accumulation thereof in any channel or carriageway or upon any paved crossing.

If during its removal any snow be deposited upon any footway he shall forthwith remove it.

3. Every person who shall throw salt upon any snow on any footway shall forthwith effectually remove the whole of the product of the salt and snow.

4. A person shall not in removing any filth, dust, ashes, or rubbish, from any premises deposit such filth, dust, ashes, or rubbish, upon any footway or carriageway.

5. A person shall not within twenty yards from any street or from any premises used wholly or partly for human habitation, or as a school or place of public resort or worship, or  on which any person is employed in any manufacture, trade, or business, without reasonable excuse, cleanse or remove any of the contents of any privy, cesspool or like receptacle for filth, except between the following hours:-

March to October: 6am - 8.30am (both inclusive);
November to February: 7am - 9.30am (both inclusive).

6. (a) Every person conveying any filth, dust, ashes, or rubbish in or through any street shall adopt all necessary precautions to prevent its falling upon any footway or carriageway and shall, where necessary for that purpose, use a cart or carriage or other suitable vessel or receptacle properly constructed and sufficiently covered.

(b) If during such conveyance any filth, dust, ashes or rubbish, shall so fall he shall forthwith clean the place on which it falls.

7. Where any cargo, load or collection of filth or rubbish emitting a stench, conveyed to any place within the district to await removal by the owner preventing the emission of stench therefrom within one hundred yards -

a) from any street or from any premises used wholly or partly for human habitation or
b) from any school or place of public resort or worship, or
c) from any place in which any person is employed in any manufacture, trade or business,

The owner or consignee or any person who may have undertaken delivery to the owner or consignee of the filth or rubbish shall not, without reasonable excuse, cause or suffer it to remain in such place for more than twenty - four hours after its deposit.

8. A person shall not deposit or cause to be deposited within one hundred yards:-

a) from any street or from any premises used wholly or partly for human habitation, or
b) from any school or place of public resort or worship, or
c) from any place in which any person is employed in any manufacture, trade or business

any filth removed from cesspool or privy or from any receptacle used in connexion with a privy, unless it shall with all reasonable dispatch, be ploughed or dug into the ground or covered with a sufficient layer of earth or ashes, or shall be otherwise treated so as to prevent as far as practicable the emission of stench.

9. Every person who shall unload or deposit any filth or rubbish emitting a stench and brought to the place of unloading or deposit to await removal therefrom

1) within one hundred yards:-

a) from any street or from any premises used wholly or partly for human habitation, or
b) from any school or place or public resort or worship, or
c) from any place in which any person is employed in any manufacture, trade, or business, or

2) in any pace where the filth or rubbish is likely to give offence to any person on any of the above - mentioned premises shall cause it to be forthwith covered with a sufficient layer of earth or ashes or otherwise treated so as to prevent the emission of stench.

10. Every person who shall convey filth or rubbish emitting a stench through or along any street shall before and during its conveyance cause it to be covered with lime or otherwise treated so as to prevent as far as practicable the emission of stench.

11. A person shall not keep any swine within one hundred feet from any dwelling - house, unless the place in which such swine are kept be maintained in a cleanly and wholesome condition.

12. A person shall not keep any cattle or swine or deposit the dung of any cattle or swine such a situation or manner as to render liable to pollution any water used or likely to be used by man for drinking or domestic purposes or for manufacturing drink for the use of man, or any water used or likely to be used in any diary.

13. 1) Every occupier of a building or premises wherein or whereon any horse or other beast of draught or burden or any cattle or swine may be kept shall provide in connexion with such building or premises: and

a) a suitable receptacle or receptacles for all filth produced in the keeping of any such animal in or on such building or premises; and
b) a sufficient drain so constructed and maintained as effectually to convey all urine or liquid filth or refuse from such building or premises into a sewer, cesspool, or other proper receptacle.

3) He shall, as regards any receptacle provided in pursuance of this byelaw, comply with the following requirements:-

a) the bottom or floor of the receptacle shall not be lower than the surface  of the ground adjoining it
b) The receptacle shall be so constructed and maintained as to prevent any escape of the contents thereof, or any soakage therefrom into the ground or into the wall of any building
c) The receptacle shall have a suitable cover, and when not required to be open shall be kept properly covered therewith and
d) The receptacle shall be emptied of its contents once at lease in every week.

4) Provided that this byelaw shall not apply to any place which is beyond sixty feet from any dwelling house in another curtilage

Penalties

14. Every person who shall offend against any of these byelaws shall be liable for every offence to a fine not exceeding the sum of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine not exceeding the sum of forty shillings for each day during which the offence continues after conviction therefor.

Repeal of Byelaws

15. From and after the dated of the confirmation of these byelaws, the byelaws relating to nuisances which were made by the Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Shrewsbury, acting by the Council, on the twenty - eighth day of August 1905, and were confirmed by the Local Government Board on the fifteenth day of November 1905, shall be repealed.