Section 3Part 0 —
What not to be done in thoroughfares or highways
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Every person who — is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
in any thoroughfare in any town, in any public place or on any highway, feeds or fodders any horse or other animal, or shows any caravan containing any animal, or any other show or public entertainment, or shoes, bleeds or farries any horse or animal (except in cases of accident), or exercises, trains or breaks any horse or animal, or cleans, makes or repairs any part of any cart or carriage, except in cases of accident where repair on the spot is necessary;
in any thoroughfare in any town, turns loose any horse or cattle, or suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious dog, or in any place wilfully sets on or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry or put in fear any person, horse or other animal;
by negligence or ill-usage in driving cattle or any other animal, causes any mischief to be done by such cattle or other animal to any person or property; or who, in the driving, care or management of such cattle or other animal, wantonly or unnecessarily impedes or obstructs the free passage of any person along any thoroughfare or highway; and also every person, not being hired or employed to drive such cattle or other animal, who wantonly and unlawfully pelts, drives, hunts, injures or hurts any such cattle or other animal;
having the care of any cart or carriage, rides on any part thereof, on the shaft thereof or on any horse or other animal drawing the same, without having and holding the reins, or who is at such a distance from such cart or carriage as not to have the complete control over every horse or other animal drawing the same;
in any thoroughfare in any town, or in any public place, rides or drives furiously, or on any thoroughfare or highway, or in any public place, rides or drives so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or to the common danger of the passengers therein;
in any thoroughfare causes any carriage, with or without horses or other animals, to stand longer than may be necessary for loading, unloading, taking up or setting down passengers, excepting carriages standing for hire in any place allowed by competent authority; or, by means of any carriage, horse or other animal, wilfully interrupts any public crossing or wilfully causes any obstruction in any thoroughfare or highway;
leads or rides any horse or other animal, or draws or drives any carriage upon any footway, or fastens any horse or other animal so that it may stand across, upon or impede any footway; and every person who, along any thoroughfare or highway, in, or on any carriage, carries or conveys any timber, lumber, iron or thing made of any material whatsoever in such manner as that the same or any part thereof extends across the carriage two feet beyond the wheels;
rolls or carries any cask, tub, hoop, wheel, ladder, plank, pole or placard upon any footway, except for the purpose of loading or unloading any cart or carriage, or of crossing the footway, or for the performance of any immediate or indispensable work, or for the repair of any building otherwise than under the regulations hereinafter mentioned;
after being made acquainted with the regulations or directions made by competent authority for regulating the route of horses, carriages and persons during the time of divine service, or at any other time, through any of the towns of the Islands, wilfully disregards or fails to conform himself thereunto;
without the consent of the owner or occupier, affixes any bill or other paper against or upon any building, wall, fence or pale, or writes upon, soils, defaces or marks any such building, wall, fence or pale in any other way whatsoever;
in any thoroughfare or public place, indecently exposes his or her person;
marks on any fence, wall or building, any obscene figure, drawing, painting or representation, or sings any profane, indecent or obscene song or ballad, or writes or draws any indecent or obscene word, figure or representation, or uses any profane, indecent or obscene language;
uses any threatening or abusive and calumnious language to any other person publicly, as tends to provoke a breach of the peace; or uses such language, accompanied by such behaviour to any person publicly, as tends to a breach of the peace;
except in the performance of a duty legally imposed on such person, or for the purpose of giving an alarm of fire, or as a warning to passengers in dangerous or narrow roads, blows any horn or shall, or uses any other noisy instrument, or beats any drum in any public square, street or lane of any town in the Islands;
in the streets, lanes or squares of any town or in any thoroughfare or highway, wantonly discharges any firearms, or makes any bonfire; or who, to the danger and annoyance of any passenger or inhabitant, throws or discharges any stone or other missile, flies any kite or plays any game;
wilfully and wantonly disturbs any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell, or knocking at any door, without lawful excuse, or who wilfully and unlawfully extinguishes the light of any lamp, or unlawfully enters into any dwelling-house, building or premises to the annoyance of any person therein;
in any thoroughfare in any town or highway, tyres any wheel, or burns, dresses or cleanses any hoop, or cleanses, fires, washes or scalds any cask or tub, or wilfully makes any fire on or in any prohibited place;
burns any wood, shavings, rubbish or sweepings, or throws or lays any dirt, litter, ashes, carrion, fish, offal, rubbish or broken bottles in any street, lane or road;
loiters in any public place and solicits any person for the purpose of prostitution; or
in any public place sets fire to any firework except in accordance with the terms of a permit issued by the Chief Fire Officer,
Any person who throws down, drops or otherwise deposits in, into or from any road or place to which the public are entitled or permitted to have access, or leaves anything whatsoever including but without limiting the generality of the foregoing any paper, bottle, tin can, packing material, offal, carrion, refuse, wrecked car or other vehicle or litter in such circumstances as to cause, contribute to, or tend to lead to the defacement by litter of any such place or road, then, unless that depositing and leaving was authorised by law or was done with the consent of the owner, occupier or other person or authority having the control of the place in or into which that thing was thrown down, dropped or otherwise deposited, is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.