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Hawera Borough Drainage Empowering Act 1900

Local Act	1900 No 21
Date of assent	20 October 1900

Contents

2 Interpretation

3 Power to Council to require ratepayers to do certain acts

4 Power to Council where existing private drain passes through several separately owned premises

5 Stream or watercourse may be covered in

6 Money due by owners of premises may be paid by instalments

7 Power to make by-laws under preceding sections

8 Power to make by-laws as to drainage and sanitation

9 Powers of by-law

10 Production of by-law evidence that by-law duly made

11 By laws, how made and enforced

12 Percentages on instalments

13 Power to Council to erect buildings, &c, in certain places

14 Section 264 of The Municipal Corporations Act 1886, to apply to rights-of-way

15 Proceedings in case of default by owners to do works under this Act

16 Council may carry out works

17 Sewage to be rendered innocuous

18 Drain not to be polluted

19 Council may erect dams, &c

20 Penalty for damaging works

21 Drainage of surface-water

22 Penalty on breach of Act or by-law

23 Council may add to cost of works

24 Power to borrow money

25 Fines and penalties, how recovered

26 Validation of existing by-laws

27 Powers under The Municipal Corporations Act 1886, not affected

28 The Public Works Act 1894, applied

An Act to confer Drainage-powers upon the Mayor, Councillors, and Burgesses of the Borough of Hawera.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—