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or contravention shall last, which shall be held to be a distinct and separate offence for each and every day as aforesaid; provided that such fine shall not exceed forty dollars ($40), and the imprisonment shall not be for a longer period than two (2) calendar months for each and every offense, as aforesaid; the said imprisonment, however, to cease at any time before the expiration of the term fixen by the said Recorder's Court, upon payment of the said fine or fine and costs.

BY-LAW CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE WATER WORKS AND THE COLLECTION OF WATER RATES.

(PASSED 6TH OF MAY, 1901, NUMBER 266.)

SUPPLYING OTHERS AND WASTING WATER.)

Sec. 5. It is expressly forbidden to any occupant of a house or building, or any part thereof, supplied with water from the said Water Works, to furnish water to others or to use it otherwise than for his own use, or to increase the supply of water agreed for, or to waste it, or to practice any fraud upon the said corporation with regard to the water so supplied.

DISTRIBUTING PIPES IN REPAIR.

Sec. 6. All persons taking the water shall keep the distribution pipes within the premises in good repair and protected from frost, at their own expense; and they shall be held liable to the Corporation for all damages that may result from their failure to do so.

FRAUDULENT CONNECTIONS TO WATER PIPES.

Sec. 7. No person shall fraudently connect any pipe with the water pipes of the Corporation, or with any pipe, cistern or apparatus connected therewith, or into which the water from the said Water Works shall flow or proceed, or shall fraudently use or otherwise misappropriate the water supplied by the City, or knowingly permit the same to be fraudenttly used or otherwise misappropriated,

CUT OFF WATER SUPPLIES.

Sec. 8.--If any person supplied with water by the Corporation does or permits to be done, anything in contravention of this by-law, or fails to do anything prescribed by this by-law, the Superintendent or his deputy may cut off the water supply, and cease to supply such person with water so long as the cause of complaint remains, or is not remedied.

CONNECTION TO BE KEPT IN GOOD REPAIR.

Sec. 9. No person shall wrongfully cause or suffer any pipe, valve, cock, cistern, bath, soil pan, water-closet, or other apparatus or receptacle to be out of repair, or to be used or contrived so that the water supplied to him is or is likely to be wasted, mis-used or unduly consumed.

ALTERATION OF PIPES.

Sec. 10. No alteration shall be made in any of the pipes or fixtures inserted by the City, except by its agents or officers.

WATER METERS AND CONNECTIONS.

Sec. 11. No person supplied with water from the said Water Works by meter shall be allowed to connect, or cause to be connected any pipe or other fixture between the Corporation's service pipe and the meter.

HYDRANTS NOT TO BE OPENED.

Sec. 12. No person, unless duly authorized by the Water Committee, shall open any hydrant in the City, or lift or remove the cover of, or draw water from the same.

TURNING ON AND OF THE WATER.

Sec. 13. No person shall turn on, or turn off the water in any inanner, or interfere with any of the waterpipes or valves belonging to the City, without the permission of the Water Committee or the said Superintendent, who shall report all such cases to his Committee.

PERMIT TO USE WATER FOR BUILDING PURPOSES.

Sec. 17. In all cases where water is required for building purposes or the use of building materials, a permit will have to be obtained from the Inspector of Building and paid for to the City Treasurer.

PENALTIES AND FINES.

Sec. 25.--Any person offending against sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, of this by-law, shall for each and every infraction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty ($20) dollars and costs of prosecution, and in default of iminediate payment of the said fine and costs, to an imprisonment in the common gaol for a period not to exceed two (2) months, the said imprisonment to cease upon payment of the said fine and costs.

SUPERINTENDENT AND ASSISTANTS.

Sec. 26. Whether in the above by-law the word Superintendent appears, it shall mean that the Assistant-Superintendent or Acting-Superintendent shall, in his absence, have the same rights, prerogatives and duties.

SCHEDULE TARIFF OF WATER RATES.

FOR BUILDING MATERIALS.
(Payable in advance.)

For every thousand (1,000) bricks used, the water therefor to
be charged

For every cubic yard of masonry, the water therefor to be charged

For every thousand (1,000) yards of plastering

0.06

0.03 $3.00

BY-LAW ΤΟ ΑΒΑTE SMOKE NUISANCE. (PASSED 13TH FEBRUARY, 1882, NUMBER 130). REPEALED AND REPLACED BY SECTION 79 OF BY-LAW NO. 260, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SECTION 7.

SMOKE CONSUMERS.

Sec. 7.-Every proprietor, or tenant of any engine, steam boiler, factory, chemical works or other workshop or establishment within the limits of the said City, or using the same, shall, when notified to do so by the Inspector of boilers, under instruction by him received from the Fire Committee, provide such apparatus as will consume the smoke and gas escaping therefrom, so as to effectually remove and abate any nuisance arising from the working of such establishment; and every such proprietor, owner and tenant shall have the said apparatus approved of by the said Inspector; and any person offending against any of the provisions prescribed in the present section, shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) for the first offence, and in default of immediate payment of the said penalty and costs, to an imprisonment not exceeding two (2) calendar months, unless the fine and costs shall have been paid before the expiration of said delay, and to a further fine of fifty dollars ($50) per day for each and every day the said offender shall continue to carry on such establishment in violation of this section.

EXTRACTS FROM

BY-LAW TO AMEND BY-LAW NO. 236 ΕΝΤΙTIED
"BY-LAW CONCERNING ASSESSMENTS,
TAXES AND LICENSES."

(ADOPTED APRIL 18TH, 1904, NUMBER 313.)

(AS AMENDED BY-LAW NO. 329, ADOPTED
APRIL 27TH 1905.)

Sec. 5.-Section 13 of said By-law No. 236 as amended will read

as follows:

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No person shall do business within the City of Montreal as.... .chimney sweep, and shall not keep or have under his control any. Meeting halls, halls where theatrical performances are held or places of amusement whatsoever, museums, lumber, hay, straw or firewood yards, oil refineries, saw-mills foundries, furniture factories, blacksmith's shops, joiner's shops, or shops for the repairing of furniture, or all other establishments dangerous for fire, stores, buildings or all other structures where oils, varnishes, petroleum, benzine, gasoline, or any other very inflamable products, sky-rockets, or other fireworks are manufactured or kept for sale or for use or stored, motors operated by gas, coal oil, gasoline, naphtha oil, electricity or other power except steam or steam boilers and shall not exercise the profession or carry on the trade of...... without having previously obtained a license from the City, and without having paid to the City Treasurer the following sums or those which may be fixed by the

plumber,.

Civic By-laws:

Chimney sweep

Owners of museums

Owners of Dancing Halls or Halls for theatrical representations

Owners of Concert Halls or places of amusement what

soever

Persons keeping lumber, hay, straw or firewood yards,
saw mills, foundries, furniture factories, blacksmiths'
shops, joiner shops, or shops for the repairing of fur-
niture or all other establishments dangerous for fire,
stores, buildings or any other structures in which oils,
varnishes, petroleum, benzine, gasoline or other very
inflammable products, sky rockets or other fire-works
are manufactured or kept for sale or for use or stored
for each of such yards, stores or other establishments..
Persons using motors operated by gas, coal oil, gaso-
line, naptha oil, electricity or any other power
except steam (automobiles excepted) for each esta-
blishment, if using les than five (5) horse power, the
sum of two dollars ($2.00); if using more than fiive
horse power, the sum of...

Owners of steam boilers, for each boiler..
Master Plumbers.

Journeymen plumbers.

$5.00

30.00

100.00

50.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

5.00

1.00

Sec. 6. Section 15 of the said By-law No. 236 is replaced by the following:

"All licenses issued under the present By-law shall be signed by the City Treasurer; they shall be annual, with the excepiton of those issued for circuses, exhibitions or parades, and shall expire on the first day of May after granting the thereof, but the said Treasurer may, however, ISSUE LICENSES FROM THE IST OF FEBRUARY FOR A TERM OF FIFTEEN MONTHS."

Sec. 7.-Section 16. of the said By-law No. 236, as amended by section 5 of By-law No. 267, is further amended by replacing it by the following:

"No license shall be transferable, nor shall the same authorize any person to do business or act under it, but the person or persons named therein."

Sec. 10. Every license granted under the present By-law may be suspended or revoked by the City Treasurer by reason of misconduct, incompetency or violation of any By-Law on the part of the licensee.

Sec. 12. The said Treasurer shall grant none of the licenses mentioned below, except upon the written recommendation of the officials hereinafter designated:

Of the Superintendent of Police and Inspector of Buildings jointly For dancing halls, concert halls, meeting halls, halls where theatrical performances are given or places of amusement.

Of the Inspector of Buildings-For lumber, hay, straw or fire-wood yards, oil refineries, saw mills, foundries, furniture factories, blacksmiths' shops, joiner shops, shops for the repairing of furniture and all other such establishments dangerous for fire, factories and stores for the sale or storage of sky rockets or other fire works, varnishes, naphtha oil, benzine, petroleum, oils, gasoline or other very inflammable products, motors operated by gas, coal oil, gasoline, naphtha, electricity or any other power except steam.

of

Sec. 13. No person shall represent himself falsely as one of the city constables designated as license inspectors, nor, not being duly authorized to that effect, shall wear the badge such inspector, nor shall prevent any of the said constables, when wearing their inspectors' badges, from entering into any house or upon any property, nor shall assault them while in the lawful performance of their duties.

NOTE: The PENALTY section is the same as other by-laws.

BY-LAW TO PLACE THE INSPECTOR OF BUILDINGS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE WORKSHOPS AND STORES COMMITTEE.

(ADOPTED 18TH JANUARY, 1904, NUMBER 310)

Sect. 1.-Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the several By-Laws adopted by the Council, the Inspector of Buildings and his assistant shall hereafter be under the jurisdiction of the Workshops & Stores Committee, and all clauses of said By-laws inconsistent with this By-Law are therefore repealed.

NOTE: This By-Law was never enforced as there is no permanent committee known as the "Workshops and Stores Committee." A recent resolution adopted by the City Council, has replaced the Inspector of Buildings and his Assistant under the jurisdiction of the Fire and Light Committee.

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