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## BY-LAW # 21 TOWN OF MULGRAVE PEACE AND GOOD ORDER BY-LAW
RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Mulgrave that the following By-Law be and the same is hereby enacted and that the Clerk be and is hereby instructed to forward same to the Minister of Municipal Affairs with a request for his approval hereof.
## PEACE AND GOOD ORDER BY-LAW
- No person shall without reasonable cause make any noise by shouting, singing, swearing or otherwise in any street or place or in the vicinity thereof that may be likely to disturb the residents of such street or place.
2. No person, who is not a dweller therein or an inmate thereof, shall enter a private dwelling or place of business within the Town of Mulgrave, and remain therein after being requested to withdraw by the owner or person having control or management thereof.
3. No person shall make any unnecessary noise or disturbance by means of the operation of a motor vehicle.
4. No person shall perform or engage in any stunt or other activity upon a street or place so as to unduly disturb residents of any such street, place or part thereof.
- No person shall discharge any gun, air gun, pellet gun, or any other firearm in the Town of Mulgrave.
6. No person shall knock or pound on any door or any house or ring any doorbell for the purpose of annoying the inmate thereof.
- No person shall on any street beat any drum or blow any horn or trumpet or other musical instrument or clang any tamborine, cymbal or shout or sing after being requested by any police officer to desist from doing so.
8. No person shall knowingly meddle, interfere with any grave, tomb or vault in which the dead are interred, or pluck or take away any flowers of any kind growing or placed upon or around any such grave, tomb or vault.
9. No person shall wantonly or unnecessarily ring or blow any fire alarm signal.
10. No person shall wilfully or unnecessarily disturb the good order of any public meeting held for any lawful purpose.
11. No person under the age of fifteen (15) years shall be or remain upon or in any street of the Town after 9:00 o'clock in the evening unless accompanied by one of his or her parents or guardians or some other adult person authorized for such purpose by one of the said parents or guardians.
12. Any such child found on or in any street of the Town unaccompanied as aforesaid in the nighttime after 9:00 o'clock may be taken to his or her home by any policeman, and the parent or guardian of such child be warned by such policeman that if the offense is repeated, the said parent or guardian will be liable to the penalties hereinafter mentioned. Said policeman shall keep a written memorandum of such warnings to whom and the date upon which same were given.
13. Should any child, whose parent or guardian has been warned, in accordance with the provisions of the next preceding section, be found again in or upon any street unaccompanied as in Section 12 set out, the parent or guardian so warned shall be guilty of an offense against this By-Law.
14. Any person violating the provisions of this By-Law shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding $1,000.00 and in default of payment of such penalty may be imprisoned for a term not exceeding 90 days.
15. The Prevention of Disorder and Impropriety By-Law, being Chapter 17 of the By-Laws and Ordinances of the Town of Mulgrave as approved on May 1, 1952, and Section 5(a) of the Firearms and Fireworks By-Law as approved on the 18'h day of November 1960, are hereby repealed.
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## RESOLUTION
RESOLVED by the Town Council fo the Town of Mulgrave that the attached Peace and Good Order By-Law be and the same is hereby enacted and that the clerk be and is hereby instructed to forward same to the Minister of Municipal Affairs with a request for his approval hereof:
I, Harry MacFarlane, Clerk of the Town of Mulgrave, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a resolution pertaining to a Peace and Good Order By-Law duly passed unanimously by the full Council of the Town of Mulgrave at a meeting duly held and convened on the 4th day of June, А.D., 1984.
Dated at Mulgrave in the County of Guysborough, N.S. this 7'h day of June A.D., 1984
Harry L. MacFarlane Clerk - Treasurer Town of Mulgrave