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BERMUDA STATUTORY INSTRUMENT

ST. GEORGE (SOMERS GARDENS/OLD GOVERNMENT PARK) ORDINANCE 1974

[made under section 38 of the Municipalities Act 1923 [title 4 item 1] and brought into operation on 11 December 1974]

ARRANGEMENT OF PARAGRAPHS

1 Citation

2 Interpretation

3 Offences in park

Citation

1 This Ordinance may be cited as the St. George (Somers Gardens/Old Government Park) Ordinance 1974.

Interpretation

2 In this Ordinance:—

(a) "the Park" means Somers Gardens and/or Old Government Park;

(b) "shoeshining" means the cleaning or shining, or the cleaning and shining of boots and shoes;

(c) "path" means any paved or unpaved portion of any part of the Park provided by the Corporation for the use of pedestrians;

(d) "tree" includes plants, shrubs and vines;

(e) "vehicle" includes any motor-car, wagon, cart, carriage, trailer, auto-bicycle, cycle or other conveyance (except wheelbarrow used expressly by the Corporation, a baby carriage, perambulator, or invalid chair) which is used

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for the transportation of passengers, animals, goods or other loads.

Offences in park

3 Any person who, in the Park:—

(a) is improperly or indecently dressed; or

(b) skates on any roller skates; or

(c) does any shoeshining; or

(d) leaves, throws away or places any bottle, can, receptacle, paper or trash; or

(e) propels any vehicle on any portion of the Park other than a path; or

(f) parks, leaves or places wholly or partly any vehicle, except in an area designated for that purpose by traffic signs; or

(g) pushes, rolls or moves any box, puncheon, hogshead, barrel or other package wholly or partly along any path or grassed area except when necessarily crossing it in a direct line and by the shortest practicable course to or from the roadway; or

(h) leaves or places wholly or partly on any path anything calculated to endanger or obstruct any pedestrian; or

(i) deposits, places, throws or leaves any filthy or offensive matter or substances; or

(j) rides, drives or leads any animal of draught or burden along any path or so near thereto as to be dangerous or annoying to any pedestrian on any such path; or

(k) loiters, lies, sits, stands about, or with other persons congregates, upon any path to the obstruction or annoyance of any pedestrian using such path; or

(l) breaks, destroys, climbs, marks, picks, uproots, removes or otherwise damages any guard, fence, rail, notice, sign, light standard or any other device or structure placed or erected by the Corporation; or

(m) breaks, destroys, climbs, marks, picks, uproots, or otherwise injures any tree, bulb or flower; or

(n) damages, destroys, uproots or otherwise injures any turf or grass; or

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(o) ties any animal to any tree, or to any guard fence, rail or other structure erected for the protection of any tree; or

(p) drinks any intoxicating liquor; or

(q) is found during the prohibited hours, as may be specified from time to time, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance, and shall be liable to prosecution for an offence against the Municipalities Act 1923 [title 4 item 1].

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