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CHAPTER III.

ARTICLE VI.

Obstructions to be removed from the streets

No street or

number to be.

mon council.

into, along or across any street, lane, alley, or public place, without permission of the common council, under the penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each offense. Nor shall any person, under the like penalty of two hundred and fifty dollars for each and every offense, enclose any court-yard which shall extend into any street more than one-twelfth part of the width of such street, or more than five feet, nor construct any open fence around such enclosure or court-yard, exceeding four feet in height.

§ 14. The board of city works is hereby authorized and directed to take out, remove and abate, or cause to be taken out, removed and abated, any stoop, step, platform, bay-window, cellar door, area, descent into a cellar or basement, sign, post, tree, erection, and any projection from any building or otherwise, and any house or building, and any vault, cistern, slide or chute in, over or upon any street or avenue, and any snow, ice, or rubbish upon any sidewalk or gutter, contrary to the provisions of this article, and the expense thereof shall be recoverable of the owner or occupant of the premises appertaining to the same, respectively.

§ 15. No person shall use, put up or display, or cause or except as desig- allow to be put up or displayed, as a street sign or name nated by com- of a street, avenue or public place, or as a street number or designation to any dwelling, store, building or lot, owned or occupied by him, any name or number other than that assigned by the common council, and shown on the maps designating street names and numbers, now on file in the office of the board of assessors, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every such offense, and a like penalty for each and every month during which the same shall be allowed to continue.

Snow. ice, etc.. not to be scattered on sidewalks,

No person to place any dirt, sand, etc., in street gutters.

§ 16. No person, company or corporation shall cast, throw or scatter any dirt, filth or snow, in or upon any gutter, sidewalk, or in or against any fence, step or house, or over or upon any person not in the carriage way of the street by means of any sweeper or otherwise; nor shall any person, company or corporation make or use any streetsweeping machine or contrivance which shall not be so constructed as to prevent scattering or throwing of dirt, filth, snow or dust raised thereby beyond the carriage way of any street whereon the same may be used or operated; under a penalty for each and every violation of these provisions, of two hundred and fifty dollars.

§ 17. No person shall place, or cause to be placed, any dirt, sand, rubbish, or obstruction of any kind, in the gut

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ter of any street, lane or avenue of the city of Brooklyn, CHAPTER III under the penalty of fifty dollars, to be paid by each and every person causing or allowing the same to be done, and a penalty of twenty-five dollars to be paid by the person owning the premises from which such sand or dirt is taken.

matter to be

streets.

18. No person shall throw, place or deposit, or cause No refuse to be thrown, placed or deposited, in any street, lane or thrown into avenue of the city of Brooklyn, any nails or other article, or refuse of metal of any kind, or any bottles, crockery, pottery or glassware, or any other sharp or pointed articles of any kind or description, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every offense, to be severally paid by every person doing or causing the same to be done.

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Washing of carriages.

Wells and pumps, lamps and cisterns, not to be damaged, nor public
buildings defaced.

8. Animals not to drink from pumps or hydrants.

9. Rate of speed over bridges.

10. Velocipedes when to be used in streets.

11. Kite flying.

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Horse racing and fast driving.

13. Horses without a driver.

14. Rock-blasting.

15. Throwing stones,

16. Removing vault covers.

17. False alarms of fire.

13. Assembling in engine houses.

19. Runners with fire engines.

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Use of docks for loading and unloading vessels, care to be exercised.

SECTION 1. No person except the owner shall cut down, Injuring trees. destroy, break, or in any way injure any tree or shrub standing in any street, avenue or public place, unless by direction of the common council, or by the board of city works for the purpose of regulating such street. All trees kept, maintained, or cultivated in any of the streets, avenues or lanes of the city, shall have the boughs or branches cut or trimmed close to the trunk of the tree at least ten feet above the ground, and it shall not be lawful to keep, maintain, or cultivate trees in any of the streets, avenues or

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ARTICLE VII.

When trees may be ordered to be cut down.

Obstructing

gutters, sewers, etc.

Screen ashes.

lamps.

lanes of the city, excepting in the manner provided in this section.

§ 2. Whenever it shall be made known to the board of city works by a complaint signed by three freeholders residing in the neighborhood, that any tree standing in or upon any street, sidewalk, or public place in the city of Brooklyn has become infested with worms so as to be a public nuisance or inconvenience, and said board and the alderman of the ward shall be so convinced, then it shall be the duty of the board of city works to cause written notice to be left upon the premises, in front of which said tree is situated, to have such tree removed, or the worms destroyed within two days thereafter, and if the owner shall fail to do so within the time limited, then it shall be the duty of said board of city works to cause said tree to be cut down and removed, and the owner shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars in addition to the costs of the removal of said tree.

§ 3. No person shall stop or obstruct the passage of the water of any street, gutter or public sewer, culvert or water pipe, pump or hydrant, laid or placed by the city.

§ 4. No person shall sift or screen any ashes, lime, dirt or sand, or shake any carpet, etc., on any housetop, street, avenue, or public ground, or permit, suffer or employ the same to be done.

Lighting public § 5. No person shall light any public lamp, or extinguish the light of any public lamp, without having been lawfully appointed for such purpose.

Washing of vehicles.

Wells and

pumps, lamp

or public build

§ 6. No person shall wash, or cause to be washed, any cart, carriage or other vehicle in any street, avenue or public place.

§ 7. No person shall damage or in any way deface or inposts, etc., not jure any public well, pump, hydrant, or cistern, or shall to be damaged, break the glass of any public lamp; or shall take down or ings defaced. carry away any such lamp hung or fixed in any street, avenue or public grounds; or shall injure or damage any fixtures of such lamp or public lamp-post; or shall tie, hitch or make fast any horse or other animal to any such lamppost or pump, or shall drive any cart, wagon, carriage or other vehicle against any such lamp or pump; or shall take or use the water from any public cistern, except for the purpose of extinguishing fire; or shall throw any substance or article into any public well, or shall cut, mark, injure or deface the City Hall, or any public building or market

house belonging to the city, or any station house or engine CHAPTER III. house, or any sewer, railing or gate, enclosing any square ARTICLE VII. or public park; or cut, break or injure any tree, grass or shrub or walk in any square or public park; or shall cut, break or injure any water-pipe or hydrant laid or placed by the city.

drink from

pumps or

§ 8. No person shall suffer or permit any horse or other Animals not to animal to drink from a pail or other vessel, while the same is suspended from or attached to the spout or other part of hydrants. any public pump or hydrant in any street or public grounds.

§ 9. No person or persons shall drive or cause to be Rate of speed driven over or upon any of the bridges in the city of over bridges. Brooklyn, any animal or vehicle at any other pace than a walk, under a penalty of five dollars for each offense.

used in the

§ 10. No person shall use or propel by riding the same, any Velocipedes velocipede or other similar vehicle in any public street in when to be the city, between the hours of one o'clock in the afternoon streets. and eight o'clock in the evening, under a penalty of two dollars for each and every offense.

§ 11. No person shall raise or fly, or attempt to raise or Kite flying. fly, any kite in any street or avenue.

§ 12. No person shall engage in horse racing, or ride or drive any horse in any street, avenue or road with greater speed than at the rate of five miles an hour; and any person violating this provision shall be stopped by the police.

Horse racing

and fast driving

a driver.

§ 13. No person shall at the same time drive, lead or di- Horses without rect more than one team or vehicle, or suffer or permit any horse or horses, or other animal or animals, attached to any carriage, cart, wagon, sledge, truck or other vehicle to go without a driver in any street, avenue or road, or to stand in any street, avenue or road without a person in charge, or without being secured to a tying post.

§ 14. No person shall blow or blast, or permit to be Rock blasting. blown or blasted, any rock at any time between the hours of six o'clock in the forenoon and seven o'clock in the afternoon, between the first day of May and the first day of September in any year, or between the hours of eight o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon of any day between the first day of September and the first day of May in any year, except where permission is granted by the mayor to blast at other hours.

§ 15. No person shall throw or cast any stone or other Throwing

stones.

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Removing vault covers.

Faise alarms of fire.

Assembling in engine houses.

Runners with fire engines.

fireman.

missile in, from or to any street, lane, public place or unenclosed ground.

§ 16. No person shall remove or insecurely fix, or cause, or procure, or suffer, or permit to be removed, or to be insecurely fixed so that the same can be moved in its bed, any grate or covering or aperture of any vault or chute under any street or avenue; but nothing herein contained shall prevent the owner or occupant of the building with which such shall be connected from removing such grate or covering for the proper purpose of such vault or chute, provided he enclose such opening or aperture, and keep the same enclosed while such grate or covering shall be removed, with a strong box or kerb at least twelve inches high, firmly and securely made, and provided further that he shall not remove such grate or covering until after sunrise of any day, and shall replace such grate or covering before one-half hour after sunset.

§ 17. No person shall raise or assist in raising a false alarm of fire; or shall make a cry of fire without any apparent cause therefor, for the purpose of an alarm; or shall, unless he be a duly appointed bell-ringer, ring any bell for the purpose of raising an alarm of fire, except in case of fire.

§ 18. No person, unless a fireman, policeman or public officer, shall enter or assemble with any other person or persons, in any engine-house belonging to the city, at any time or times, without the permission of the foreman of the

company.

§ 19. No person other than a fireman or policeman, shall drag or run with, or assist in dragging any fire engine, hook and ladder, or hose cart.

Personating a § 20. No one shall personate a fireman or officer of the fire department at a fire, or going to or returning from a fire, or when on duty or otherwise, by wearing a cap or carrying a trumpet, or otherwise.

Personating a policeman or constable.

Penalty for breaking glass

§ 21. No person, other than a policeman or constable of the city of Brooklyn, shall wear a badge of any such policeman or constable, or any counterfeit representation of said badge, or in this or in any other way personate such policeman or constable, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every offense.

in street lamps. of

§ 22. No person shall injure, break or destroy the glass any of the public gas lamps in any avenue, street, lane

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