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[59 & 60 Vict.] South Shields Corporation Act, 1896. [Ch. l.]
the same shall be settled by arbitration in manner provided by the Public Health Acts.
Every person offending against this enactment shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds and to a daily penalty not exceeding forty shillings.
81. If the footway or carriageway of the street is injured by or in consequence of any building work or surface excavation on or under such footway or carriageway or on or under lands adjoining thereto the Corporation may repair or replace the footway or carriageway so injured and may recover summarily as a civil debt or in any court of competent jurisdiction from the owner of the land on or under which the building work has been done or excavation has been made or from the person causing the injury as the Corporation may think fit all damages arising from such injury and
all expenses incurred in such repair or replacement.
82. Every person desirous of forming a communication for horses cattle or vehicles across any kerbed or paved footway so as to afford access to any premises from a street shall first give notice in writing of such desire to the Corporation and shall if so required by them submit to them for their approval a plan of the proposed communication showing where it will cut the footway and what provision (if any) is made for kerbing for gullies and for a paved crossing and the dimensions and gradients of necessary works and shall execute the works at his own expense tinder the supervision and to the reasonable satisfaction of the surveyor and in case such plan shall have been required then in accordance with the plan so approved and not otherwise.
if any person drives or permits or causes to be driven any horse cattle or vehicle across any kerbed or paved footway before such a communication has been made or on or along any part of any such footway other than the part over which such communication has been made he shall for each such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings in addition to the amount of damage (if any) thereby occasioned and such penalty and damages shall be recoverable in like manner as penalties under this Act may be recovered.
83.-(1.) Whenever any structure or any part thereof or anything thereon or attached thereto or projecting therefrom is deemed by the surveyor to be in a state or position whereby public danger is or may be occasioned the surveyor shall give notice under his
hand to the owner or occupier of such structure or to both of them requiring such owner or occupier forthwith to take down remove repair or secure the same to the satisfaction of the surveyor.
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