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Section 45, The Freetown Improvement Short title
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(1) Where, at the date of the coming into operation ofthis Ordinance, there is abutting on a street any fence which
shall not be in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance
such fence shall, within six months thereafter, be removed by
the owner or occupier thereof-
(a) if such owner or occupier fail to remove any such
fence, or
(b) where any fence abutting on a street shall be made
contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance,
such fence shall be deemed to be a nuisance to such street; and
it shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works to serve a
notice in writing on the occupier of the land on which such
fence is found, requiring him within a time therein stated,
which shall not be less than one month, nor more than three
months after the date of the notice, to abate such nuisance.
(2) If on the expiration of the time stated in the notice the
occupier shall have failed to comply therewith, it shall be
lawful for the Director of Public Works to apply to t~e
Magistrate for a summary order, and the Magistrate, 1f
satisfied that such fence is a nuisance as aforesaid, shall, bY
summary order, direct the occupier, within a time to be stated
in the order, to abate such nuisance; and on his failure to
comply with such order, the Director of Public Works may do
whatever may be necessary to abate the nuisance and otherwise,
in the execution of the order, and recover in a summary manner
the expenses incurred in connection therewith.
Freetown Improvement [Cap. 66 645
6 Any person w~o contravenes an.y of the provisions of Penalty.
4 · VI of this Ordmance shall be gmlty of an offence, and
Pafi on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not
sha Xkg one hundred pounds, and a further penalty of ten
exceeds for every day that the offence continues after the
pou~ tion of the time stated in the notice which shall have been
explrda by the Director of Public Works under the provisions of
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the last precedmg sectwn.
pART VII.-STREETS.
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