Section 5Part 0 —
Exposing goods for sale without owner’s consent, etc.
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Every person who — is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of twelve dollars.
in any highway or thoroughfare in any town, to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers, exposes for sale or shows, except in a market or place lawfully appointed for that purpose, any goods, wares, merchandise or animal; or cleans or dresses any animal; or hews, saws, bores or cuts any timber or stone; or slacks, sifts or screens any lime; or makes or dresses up or paints any article or material; or washes or cleanses any utensil whatsoever; or washes, hangs up or spreads any clothes or linen; provided a complaint be made by any inhabitant residing near the place where the offence is committed;
throws or lays in any thoroughfare any coals, stones, slates, shells, lime, bricks, timber, iron or other materials (except building materials or rubbish thereby occasioned, which shall be placed or enclosed so as to prevent any mischief happening to passengers);
in any thoroughfare, beats or shakes any carpet, rug or mat (except door mats, before the hour of eight in the morning), or causes any offensive matter to run from any manufactory, slaughter-house, butcher’s yard or dunghill into any thoroughfare or uncovered place, whether or not surrounded by a wall or fence; but it shall not be deemed an offence to lay sand, litter or other materials in any thoroughfare in case of sickness to prevent noise, if the party laying any such things causes them to be removed as soon as the occasion for them ceases;
empties or begins to empty, any privy between the hours of four in the morning and ten at night, or removes along any thoroughfare any night soil or other offensive matter between the hours of four in the morning and ten in the evening, or who wilfully or carelessly slops or spills any such offensive matter in the removal thereof; or who does not carefully sweep and clean every place in which any such offensive matter has been placed, slopped or spilled; or discharges or allows to run from their premises any putrid or noxious water or other offensive matter or thing whatsoever, into any street, lane or thoroughfare, or into any other place or premises in the occupation of any other person;
keeps any pigsty to the front of any thoroughfare within any town, not being shut out from such thoroughfare by a sufficient wall or fence, or who keeps any swine in or near any street or in any dwelling, so as to be a common nuisance;
exposes anything for sale in any private piazza or public place, unless with the consent of the owner or other person authorised to give such consent, or upon or so as to hang over any carriageway or footway, or on the outside of any house or shop or who sets up, or continues any pole, blind, awning, line or any other projection from any window parapet or other part of any house, shop or other building so as to cause any annoyance or obstruction to the inhabitants or passengers in any thoroughfare, except in case of sickness to prevent noise, or accident in repairing any building, provided the same be removed as soon as the occasion ceases;
by the negligent use or management of fire in improper places, damages any property or injures any person; or
wilfully disturbs any meeting or assembly, or any congregation assembled for religious worship or for any religious service or rite in any burial ground, or disturbs or molests any person thereat,