CHAPTER I .
ORDER AND DECORUM.
1. Any person found drunk, or in a state of
intoxication, in any street, tavern, store, shop or other public place, shall
be liable to a penalty of not to exceed ten dollars for each offense.
2. No person shall assemble with two or more persons
in any street, tavern, store, shop or other public place, where any such
persons shall be engaged in boisterous, noisy brawling disturbance. Or singing
bacchanalian songs, or using profane or obscene language: nor shall any person
or persons disturb the public by discharging any gun, pistol, cracker, rocket,
or squib, or any other explosive thing, or by the blowing of a horn, ringing
of a bell or bells, or other boisterous noise in a riotous or boisterous
manner, in said village, under a penalty of five dollars for each offense.
3. No person shall keep within said village any
billiard table, ball alley, or other instrument of gaming, upon which or with
which any game shall be played for money, under a penalty of ten dollars for
each offense.
4. Any person who shall aid, make, or assist in making
any riot, noise, or disturbance in said village, or shall aid, or countenance
any disorderly assemblage. Shall forfeit a penalty of not to exceed ten
dollars for each offense.
5. Any person who being a beggar, vagrant, niendicant,
common prostitute, or shall gamble for money or other Valuable thing in said
village, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for each offense, and in default
of payment, shall be sent to the Erie County Penitentiary for ten days.
6. Every person who shall exhibit, or assist in the
exhibition of any natural or artificial curiosity, caravan, circus, menagerie,
theatrical performance, or any show or curiosity of any kind or description,
for money without first obtaining a license signed by at least three of the
trustees, or a permit from the President of said village, shall forfeit the
sum of ten dollars.
Chapter II .
RESTRAINING ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE.
1. No person shall let any horse, sheep, swine, goat,
or cattle of any description, or any geese, run at large in the streets of
said village, under a penalty of fifty cents for each offense.
2. It shall be lawful for any person to distrain, or
drive to the pound any of the above named animals or geese found running at
large in the streets f said village. And the person driving the same to the
pound shall receive, upon delivery to the pound master. ten cents per head for
every animal, and three cents for each goose, and in addition thereto one half
of the penalty mentioned in section 1. And the poundmaster shall collect on delivery of any
cattle, horse, sheep, swine, goats or geese, to the owner thereof, the fees
allowed by law to pound masters, and in addition ten cents for each animal and
three cents for each goose, and fifty cents, the penalty mentioned in section
1.
CHAPTER III .
STREETS AND SIDE-WALKS.
1. Any person who shall willfully injure any public
reservoir, pump, well or water tank, public building, or any property
belonging to said village, or create any unnecessary waste of water from any
reservoir, well or tank, or injure any ornamental or shade tree set out
standing in any street or public place in said village, or shall hitch a
horse, or horses, so near the same that it will be injured, shall be liable to
a penalty not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense.
2. No person shall ride or drive a horse, or horses,
mule or mules, faster than a moderate trot in the streets of said village; and
no person shall play ball in the streets of said village, under a penalty not
to exceed ten dollars for each offense.
3. No person shall encumber any street, side-walk,
or cross-walk in said village with teams, carriages, waggons, carts, sleighs,
boxes, lumber, timber, firewood, or other substance or material whatever; and
no person shall push, lead, ride, drive, draw, back, or otherwise have under
his control any horse, mule, cattle, carriage, waggon, cart, sleigh, or other
animal or vehicle, over or upon any side-walk in said village, unless it be to
cross a side-walk to go into a lot or yard, under a penalty of five dollars
for each offense.
4. Any Trustee is authorized to grant any person
permission in writing to place and keep any building materials in any of the
public streets not to exceed four months, but such permission shall not
authorize the obstruction of the side-walk, nor more than one-half of the
carriage way of said street opposite the lot upon which a building is to be
erected.
CHAPTER IV .
NUISANCES.
1. No person shall permit, or cause to exist, on his
premises in said village, any dead carcass in a putrid state, or which is
likely to become putrid, or any other unwholesome substance, or which shall
create an offensive stench; nor shall any person throw or deposit, or suffer
his or her servant, child or family to throw or deposit any filth, manure, or
rubbish in any street, lane, creek, or alley, within the bounds of said
village, or on any lot in said village where the same will become a nuisance,
under a penalty not to exceed twenty-five dollars.
2. The President or any Trustee may order the owner or
occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow-chandler shop, soap factory, slaughter
house, tannery, barn, stable, shed, privy, sewer, or other unwholesome or
nauseous house or place to be cleansed, removed, or abate the same, as often
as the same may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience of the
inhabitants of said village. Any person neglecting or refusing to obey such
order within the time mentioned in said order, shall forfeit a penalty not to
exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense.
CHAPTER V .
PREVENTION AND EXTINGUISHMENT OF FIRES.
1. The Fire Department shall consist of a Chief
Engineer and one Assistant, three Fire Wardens, and such Fire Companies, Hook
and Ladder Companies, Hose Companies and Axemen, as shall be organized by the
advise and consent of the Trustees.
2. The Chief Engineer and Assistant, and the Fire
Wardens shall be appointed by the Trustees.
3. The Chief Engineer, and in case of his absence
his Assistant, in all cases of fire shall have sole control over all the
members of the Fire Department, and all the Engines and apparatus belonging
thereto, and shall have the control and management of the mode and manner of
extinguishing such fires; and all persons present shall obey the order and
direction of such Chief Engineer, and in case of his absence his Assistant,
and in case both Engineers are absent then the President, in case of his
absence then one of the Trustees; and in case any person refuses to obey the
order of the officer in charge of the fire, he shall be liable to a penalty of
not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each refusal to obey.
4. No person shall keep within said village any ashes
which have not been kept in some metal vessel for twenty-four hours after
being taken from the stove or fire-place, or if kept in a wooden receptacle,
the same shall be at least twenty feet from any building; and whoever shall
offend against this section, shall be liable to a fine of ten dollars for each
offense.
CHAPTER VI .
PROSECUTION.
1. The President, upon the application and complaint
being made to him in writing by a resident of said village, of the violation
of any of these or the foregoing ordinances, shall immediately proceed to
enforce the penalties contained therein.
2. In every section enforcing a penalty in these
ordinances, the cost of suit shall be added to the penalty, unless such costs
shall make the whole amount exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars.
CHAPTER VII .
POLICE
1. The police Constables appointed for said village
shall have all the power and authority of the Constables of the said town of
Amherst within the bounds of said village; and any such Police Constable may
serve and execute all processes issued in said village, by any Justice of the
Peace in the town of Amherst, anywhere within said village with the same
effect as if served by a Constable of said town.
2. The said Police Constables shall have power, and it
shall be severally their duty, to give their attention to and suppress all
disturbances of the peace in said village; to apprehend without process all
persons taken in committing a breach of the peace therein, or threatening such
breach, and all persons who may obstruct or endanger them, in the discharge of
their duties, or who shall be guilty in their presence of any disorderly
conduct; or shall be engaged in any riots, rows, unlawful assemblages,
outcries, noises, insurrections, or other alarms and disturbances committed in
any unlawful manner; or whoever shall aid, assist, abet, or countenance in the
commission of either of said offenses; to arrest any persons seen drunk by
them, or manifestly intoxicated, or violating any other village ordinance for
preservation of public order and decorum, or any law of this state for the
observance of Sunday, and to proceed with all such persons so arrested before
a magistrate, or to the watchhouse, as shall be legal and proper; to enter any
dwelling-house, store, grocery, or other building, where any felon is harbored
or permitted to remain, or where persons are who during the night have in
their presence or hearing committed any felony, or breach of the peace, or
where any noise or alarm, or other disturbance shall be made during the night
time, and to do all that shall be legally proper in the premise to arrest
offenders, and to preserve the peace and good order of said village.
3. It shall be the especial duty of said Police
Constables to take notice of all violations of any law of the State, or of any
village by-law, or ordinances of the village charter of said village, and to
communicate to the Trustees all such violations, with the names of the
witnesses thereof; to take before some magistrate in said village all persons
confined in said watch-house by him or them, or by any private citizen of said
villages, and to see that the complaint against such persons is properly
presented, and the witnesses on the part of the complaint properly notified,
and compelled to attend such examination that they may testify therein; and to
do and perform all other services which shall be imposed on such Constable by
any bylaws or ordinance of said village or the charter thereof.
4. The said Police Constable shall be allowed for
all services rendered by them under their appointment, the same fees allowed
by law to other Constables for similar services; such fees to be audited by
the Trustees when rendered in behalf of said village; for such services as
they may render the county, they shall make out their account and submit the
same to the Supervisors of the county for which such services were rendered;
for services rendered for individuals, they must make their claim on the
individuals for whom the service may have been rendered.
5. Before any such Constable shall enter upon the
duties of his office he shall take the constitutional oath of office, and he
shall also execute a bond with two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the
President, or in case of his absence by two of the Trustees, to be endorsed on
such instrument, and file the same with the village Clerk, conditioned that he
will pay to every person entitled thereto all such sums of money as he may
become liable to pay by reason of any execution delivered to him for
collection; a copy of such instrument, certified by the Clerk, shall be
evidence in all places of the execution and filing of the said bond
signed by Long and C.L. Haupt
The previous By Laws are copies of the Original ByLaws and
Charter of the Village of Williamsville NY Dated 1869 . The
original copy is preserved and stored in the vault in the Village Hall
at 5565 Main St . Williamsville N.Y. 14221. For further info on Historic
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