BOUNDARY STONE OR MARKS. Sec. 53. No person shall cover up or remove any of the boundary stones and other signs for designating the avenues and streets of the city. DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. Sec. 54.-No person shall injure or destroy any ornamental or shade tree, shrub, lamp-post, fence railing in or upon any public ground or street, alley, or other public places, or upon any private premises. CUTTING OR PRUNING TREES, ETC. Sec. 55. The City Surveyor may, whenever he will deem it in the interests of the City, order the cutting, pruning and removal of any trees planted in the streets of the City. LAMP-POST NOT TO BE TAMPERED WITH. Sec. 66. No person shall climb upon or hitch any horse or other animal to any public lamp-post, or hang or place any goods, boxes, wood, or any heavy material upon or against the same, or shall extinguish, or cause to be extinguished, or cause to be lighted, any of said lamps, unless duly authorized so to do. OBSTRUCTION OF LAMP-POST. Sec. 57. If any trees in any street wherein public lamps are erected shall be suffered by the owner or the occupant of the premises to grow in such a manner as to obstruct the reflection of the said lamps, it shall be the duty of the City Surveyor, under the direction of the Fire and Light Committee, to notify the owner or occupant of the premises forthwith to trim the same, in the manner to be specified in the notice; and if any person shall refuse or neglect to comply with such notice, it shall be the duty of the City Surveyor to cause such trees to be trimmed. REPEAL OF BY-LAWS. Sec. 58.-By-law No. 48, parsed on the 15th of March, 1870. and any other by-law concerning the streets and by-law No. 183, concerning projecting signs, passed on the 24th of March, 1890, and all provisions of any by-law inconsistent with the present bylaw are hereby repealed. PENALTIES AND FINES. Sec. 59. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this by-law, shall, for each offence, be liable to a fine, with or without costs, and in default of immediate payment of the said fine or fine and costs, to an imprisonment to be fixed by the Recorder's Court at its discretion; and any person who shall violate any of such provisions of the said by-law shall moreover be liable to the fine mentioned in this section for each and every day that such violation 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 immediate 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 For every cubic yard of masonry, the water therefor to be be charged charged For every thousand (1,000) yards of plastering 0.06 0.03 $3.00 BY-LAW TO ABATE 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 ENTITLED (ADOPTED APRIL 18TH, 1904, NUMBER 313.) Sec. 5.-Section 13 of said By-law No. 236 as amended will read as follows: chimney sweep, No person shall do business within the City of Montreal as.. 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 Civic By-laws: . plumber,. 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, Owners of steam boilers, for each boiler.. 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." |