The Council may also from time to time make, alter, and repeal by-laws on the following subjects:
(c) to prevent the riding and driving of animals, the driving of vehicles, and the conveying of machinery and other material in, through, or across water-races, except at the appointed crossings:
(e) to punish persons for interfering with dams, reservoirs, headworks, and buildings machinery, or any appliances connected with waterworks without the consent of the Council:
(g) to protect rangers and other persons employed by the Council in connection with waterworks in the discharge of their duties, and for the purpose of enabling them to discharge such duties, to empower all such Rangers and other persons to enter upon private lands, either with or without horses, vehicles, machinery, material, and appliances for the construction, cleansing, repair, or maintenance of waterworks:
(k) generally, to prevent trespasses, nuisances, and obstructions to waterworks, and to make all such provision as to the Council may seem necessary or expedient for the protection and proper management of waterworks:
(l) to provide for the cleansing, repair, or maintenance of any water-race, or for the construction, repair, and maintenance of field crossings over any water-race, by the owner or occupier of the land on which such race is situate, or, if the race is situate upon any road or reserve, by the owner or occupier of the land on which such race is situate, or, if the race is situate upon any road or reserve, by the owner or occupier of land adjacent to such road or reserve. Also, to provide for the apportionment by the Council between the owners and occupiers of adjoining lands of the work of cleansing, repairing, and maintaining water-races situated upon the common boundaries of such lands, and of constructing, repairing, and maintaining field crossings over such races. Any by-laws made under this subsection may empower the Council, in case any owner or occupier of land thereby made liable to cleanse, repair, or maintain any water-race or any part thereof, or to construct, repair, or maintain any field crossings, shall make default in cleansing, repairing, or maintaining such water-race, or part thereof, or in constructing, repairing, or maintaining any such field crossings, to do the work, and recover the cost thereof from such owner or occupier as a debt due to the Corporation of the County of Ashburton from such owner or occupier in any Court of competent jurisdiction:
provided always that such recovery by the Council shall not release such owner or occupier from any penalty which he may have incurred by reason of his breach of the said by-laws.
(m) to empower the Council, in cases where it undertakes the cleansing, repair, or maintenance of races upon private lands, or upon any roads or reserves adjacent thereto, or the construction or repair of any field crossings over such races, in place of requiring the same to be done by the owners or occupiers of such lands, to allocate the cost incurred by the Council in and about the execution of such works amongst the owners and occupiers of such lands as aforesaid. The amount so allocated to any such owner or occupier may be recovered from him by the Council as a debt due to the Corporation of the County of Ashburton from such owner or occupier in any Court of competent jurisdiction.
Subsection (4)(c) was amended, as from 12 September 1901, by section 2 Ashburton County Council Empowering Act Amendment Act 1901 (1901 No 2(P)), by inserting the words “in through, or”
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Subsection (4)(e) was amended, as from 12 September 1901, by section 2 Ashburton County Council Empowering Act Amendment Act 1901 (1901 No 2(P)), by inserting the words “machinery, or any appliances”
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Subsection (4)(g) was amended, as from 12 September 1901, by section 2 Ashburton County Council Empowering Act Amendment Act 1901 (1901 No 2(P)), by substituting the words “and for the purpose of enabling them to discharge such duties empower all such Rangers and other persons to enter upon private lands, either with or without horses, vehicles, machinery, material, and appliances for the construction, cleansing, repair, or maintenance of waterworks”
for the words “and for this purpose to empower all such persons to enter upon private lands”
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Subsection (4)(i) was amended, as from 12 September 1901, by section 2 Ashburton County Council Empowering Act Amendment Act 1901 (1901 No 2(P)), by inserting the words “over, or under”
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Subsection (4)(l) and (4)(m) were inserted, as from 12 September 1901, by section 3 Ashburton County Council Empowering Act Amendment Act 1901 (1901 No 2(P)).