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or mitigating any nuisance, annoyance or damage caused by the congregation,
at any place in the city or a borough, of house doves or pigeons
having, or believed by the sanitary authority to have, no owner, or of
preventing or minimising any such nuisance, annoyance or damage which
might, in the opinion of the sanitary authority, be so caused, the sanitary
authority may seize and destroy, or sell or otherwise dispose of, or cause
to be seized and destroyed or sold or otherwise disposed of, any such
house doves or pigeons in excess of such number as the sanitary authority
consider reasonable, and take such other steps as they think necessary
for any purpose:
Provided that a sanitary authority shall not in the exercise of the powers
conferred by this section: (a) enter upon any premises (other than a
public highway) without the consent of the occupier or the person having
the exclusive control and management of the premises; (b) execute or
do any work or thing affecting the structure of any building or the use
of any land without the consent of the person in whom the building or
land is vested.
Spitting in Streets
This question was raised at a meeting of the Public Health Committee.
Byelaw 29 of the Council's Good Rule and Government Byelaws reads:—
"no person shall spit on the floor, side or wall of any public carriage or of
any public hall, public waiting room or place of public entertainment
whether admission thereto be obtained upon payment or not."
The Home Office were approached on the question of whether a
byelaw prohibited spitting in streets had been confirmed and if not,
would the Secretary of State give favourable consideration to
a byelaw in the following terms: "No person shall spit on
the paved footway of any street or public place." Because of the
possibility of argument about the word "paved", it was suggested that
word might be omitted. The difficulty was got over by defining the word
so the byelaw as approved by the Council early in 1959 reads:—Spitting
on Public Footways: No person shall spit on the paved footway or any
street or public place. In this byelaw the expression "paved" includes
concrete, asphalt or other made-up surface. Any person offending
against this byelaw shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding £5.