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Road Ordinance 1856

2. The Road Ordinance 1856

Title.

1. Interpretation Clause.

2. Provincial Engineer to superintend works and advise.

3. Road Districts to be established by Ordinances or by the superintendent upon

Memorial of Ratepayers.

4. Districts may be divided.

5. Waywarden to be elected.

6. Duties of Waywarden.

7. Waywarden to be a Corporation.

8. Rates, &c., to be the property of the Waywarden, penalty for withholding property from the Waywarden.

9. Minutes and Accounts to be kept.

10. Minutes and Accounts to be open to the inspection of the Superintendent.

11. Penalty for not complying with provisions of Clauses 9 and 10.

12. Accounts to be audited.

13. Waywarden to make a List of persons and property liable to be rated, and list to be posted.

14. Such List to be amended in the Resident Magistrate's Court.

15. Waywarden's List to be the Ratepayers' Roll.

16. Who may vote at Meetings of Ratepayers.

17. Returning Officer; his duties.

18. Meeting for Election of Waywarden.

19. Mode of voting and declaring Election.

20. Returning Officer to refuse votes of unqualified persons.

21. Voting book to be preserved.

22. Penalty for making false statements at elections.

23. How vacancies may occur.

24. How such vacancies shall be filled up.

25. Returning Officer to make List of Ratepayers and appoint time for the election of the first Waywarden.

26. Ratepayers may make rates.

27. Meetings of Ratepayers to be called by public notice.

28. Rate to be made by majority. Amount of rate.

29. Rate how to be collected.

30. Rate how to be expended.

31. What description of property shall be rated.

32. Rates may be levied on the assessed value of property.

33. Assessors to be appointed.

34. Assessors to nominate Umpire.

35. Expenses of assessment.

36. Who to pay rate.

37. Levy of rate how to be regulated.

38. Rate may be paid by labour instead money.

39. Rate may be levied by distress.

40. Penalty on persons obstructing the Engineer or Waywarden.

41. Penalty on injuring a road.

42. Penalty on draining except in a certain manner.

43. Title.

Notes.

This Ordinance was passed by the Canterbury Provincial Council on 10th April

1856, and assented to by the Superintendent, Charles Bowen, on the 26th April. It was repealed by the “Road Districts Ordinance, Session 20, No. 19, 1863.

The full text of this Ordinance was not included in the Volume of Ordinances published by Charles Lucas, the Official Printer of the Canterbury Provincial Government.