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For the Prevention of Nuisances arising from any Snow, Ice, Salt, Dust, Ashes, Rubbish, Offal,
Carrion, Fish, or Filth, or other Matter or Thing in any Street.
2. The occupier of any premises fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street not repairable
by the inhabitants at large shall, as soon as conveniently may be after the cessation of any
fall of snow, remove, or cause to be removed from the footways and pavements adjoining such
premises and forming part of such street all snow fallen or accumulated on such footways and
pavements in such a manner and with such precautions as will prevent any undue accumulation
in any channel or carriageway or upon any paved crossing.
The person in occupation of or having the charge, management or control of the premises,
or if there is no such person, then any person in occupation of or having the charge, management
or control of any part of the premises, and in the case of any premises the whole of which
is let in tenements or to lodgers, the person receiving the rent payable by the tenants or lodgers,
either on his own account or as the agent of another person, shall for the purpose of this byelaw
be deemed to be the occupier.
3. Every person who shall remove any snow from any premises on to any carriageway shall
deposit the same in such a manner and with such precautions as to prevent any accumulation
thereof in any channel or upon any paved crossing.
If in the process of such removal any snow be deposited upon any footway or pavement in
any street, he shall forthwith remove such snow from such footway or pavement.
4. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on the footway of any street
shall do so in such quantity and in such manner as effectually to dissolve the whole of such snow,
and he shall forthwith effectually remove from the footway the whole of the deposit resulting
from the mixture of the salt with the snow. He shall not place any part of such deposit on the
carriageway of such street, elsewhere than in proximity to any channel at the side of such
carriageway, and he shall not remove any part of the same into any such channel unless it is
sufficiently liquid to flow along such channel.
No person shall throw any salt upon any snow on the carriageway of any street, unless it
shall be practicable forthwith effectually to remove the whole of the deposit resulting from the
mixture of the salt with the snow. Every person who shall throw any salt upon any snow on