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No. 13 of 1914.
PUBLIC LIGHTING.
[Originally No. 13 of 1914. No. 18 of 1935. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.]
Short title.
Director of Public Works to have power to erect posts and affix lamps thereon.
No. 13 of 1914.
An Ordinance to provide for the public lighting of the Colony and for the protection of the appliances used in connexion therewith.
[8th May, 1914.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Lighting Ordinance, 1914.
2. It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to cause a sufficient number of posts, standards and brackets for the lighting of the public or private streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares in the Colony to be provided and to be set up, fixed or erected in all suitable situations for such lighting, whether in any of the said streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares or in any place adjacent thereto or upon or against the wall of any house or building or the side of any wall or fence, or elsewhere, as he may think proper; and it shall also be lawful for him to cause to be provided and put and affixed upon the said posts, standards and brackets such a number of lamps and of such sizes and sorts respectively as may be found requisite for the lighting of the said streets, roads, ways and thoroughfares respectively.
Property in lamp posts and lamps to be vested in Director of Public Works.
[ct. No. 9 of 1899, s. 87, and No. 32 of 1935, s. 2 (2) (iii).]
Damaging lamp posts or lamp or light of lamps provided under this Ordinance.
3. The laws relating to the removing, taking, carrying away or stealing of fixtures and chattels respectively shall be interpreted to apply to the removing, taking, carrying away or stealing of any of the posts, standards, brackets or lamps provided under this Ordinance; and the property of and in all or any of such posts, standards, brackets or lamps shall be deemed to be vested in the Director of Public Works for all the purposes of any proceedings, civil or criminal, in relation thereto.
4. Every person who wilfully injures, displaces or damages any of the posts, standards or brackets provided under this Ordinance or who wilfully extinguishes, obscures or interferes in any way with the light of any lamp provided under this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars in addition to the full amount of the damage and all incidental costs and expenses.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939.