VII. Speed on Bridges.

77. No person or persons shall drive or cause to be driven over or upon any of the bridges in the Borough of Brooklyn, any animal or vehicle at any other pace than a walk, under a penalty of five dollars for each offense.

VIII. Bells on Junk Carts.

§ 78. No junkman or other person engaged in the buying or selling of goods, chattels or merchandise of any kind in the Borough of Brooklyn, shall use or employ on any street, lane or avenue of said borough, either by having the same attached to his vehicle or horse, or in any other manner, any bell exceeding six ounces in weight, or more than three bells at any one time, or cause or allow the same to be done under a penalty of ten dollars for each and every offense, to be severally paid by the person doing and the person causing the same to be done. (Bk. ord. 1886, ch. III, art. VII, sec. 30, with verbal changes.)

IX. Marking Hay Bales.

§ 79. It shall not be lawful for any person to sell or offer for sale within the limits of the Borough of Brooklyn any hay or straw by the bale, unless the exact gross or net weight shall be legibly and distinctly marked on every such bale of hay or straw, under a penalty of ten dollars ($10) for each bale of hay or straw so sold or cffered for sale. (Id., sec. 31, with verbal changes.)

X. Injury to Bridges.

§ 80. Every master or owner of any steamboat, steamtug, canal boat or sailing vessel, who shall through his fault or negligence, or through the fault or negligence of his servant, agent or employee, injure, or cause or permit to be injured, any bridge belonging to the Borough of Brooklyn, or in the charge or under the management of the said borough, or of any officer, officers or department of the said borough, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than $250 for each and every such offense.

XI. Theatrical Billboards.

§ 81. Billboards or signs (not exceeding two in number), to advertise theatrical performances or public entertainments, may be placed upon the sidewalk in front of theatres and places of public entertainment adjacent to the curb, but each of said billboards or signs shall not occupy a space across the street of more than nine inches and shall not be more than three feet in width parallel to the street, and shall not be less than fifteen feet apart.

XII. Protection of Piers at Wallabout, Etc.

§ 82. No person or persons shall use or employ any horse or other animal on any public dock, bulkhead or pier at the Wallabout or at the foot of Washington avenue, for the purpose of loading or unloading any vessel lying at said docks, bulkheads or piers, with any description of apparatus necessitating the going to and fro in a direct line of said horse or animal, unless he or they shall place upon the same a temporary flooring of planks to prevent the wearing or rotting of the deck of the dock, bulkhead or pier so used, and such temporary flooring shall be removed immediately after the loading or unloading of said vessel by the person or persons using the same, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every violation of the provisions of this section.

XIII. Vehicular Traffic on Ocean Parkway.

§ 83. Hereafter it shall be unlawful to drive any vehicle over the easterly side road or bridle road of the Ocean parkway, between Prospect Park and the Coney Island Concourse, except as it may be necessary to cart or convey supplies to the residences along said easterly side road, or in case of buildings being erected fronting on said side road, when it shall be lawful to cart building materials thereon. In all cases, however, vehicles must enter said side road from the street nearest to said residence or house in course of construction, and must leave the same at the next following intersecting street.

84. Any person who violates the provisions of this ordinance shall be liable to a penalty of $5 for each and every offense.

§ 85. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the municipal and public corporations consolidated into The City of New York inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. (Ord. received from Mayor February 28, 1906).

PART IV.

Ordinances Relating to that Section of the City of New York Formerly Known as Long Island City.

CHAPTER 1.-PUBLIC SAFETY AND ORDER.

Article I.-Hydrants.

Section 1. If any person, except one of the engineers or foremen of the fire companies, or by special permit from the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, shall unscrew any of the hydrants belonging to the City Water Works, erected for the extinguishment of fires, or interfere with the same, or any part of the works belonging to the said establishment, or any or either of the pipes, hydrants, stop-cocks, or any part of the works may be injured, or the water taken therefrom or wasted, they shall be liable to a penalty

of fifty dollars- for each and every such offense. (L. I. ord. 1893, ch. XII, sec. 1, with verbal changes.)

Article II.-Washing Horses and Carriages.

§ 2. No person shall wash, or cause, or procure, or permit to be washed, any horses or carriage within twenty-five feet of any pump in any street in that section of the city formerly known as Long Island City, under the penalty of ten dollars for every such offense. (Id., sec. 2.)

Article III.—Cellar Doors, Steps and Street Obstructions.

§ 3. No person or persons shall construct or continue any cellar door which shall extend more than one-twelfth part of any street, or more than five feet into any street, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. (Id., ch. XVII, sec. 2.)

§ 4. Every entrance or flight of steps projecting beyond the house-line of the street and descending into any cellar or basement story of any house or other building, where such entrance or flight of steps shall not be covered, shall be enclosed with a railing on each side, permanently put up, from three to three and one-half feet high, with a gate to open inwardly, or with two iron chains across the front of the entranceway, one near the top and one in the centre of the railing, to be closed during the night, unless there be a burning light over the steps to prevent accidents, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for every offense, to be recovered from the owner or lessee thereof, severally and respectively. (Id., sec. 3.)

§ 5. The owner of any such building shall not be liable for the said penalty for not keeping any such gate closed or chains fastened across the front of such entrance or flight of steps, when not the actual occupant thereof, until after five days' notice, in writing, from the President of the Borough, anything to the contrary in this chapter contained notwithstanding. (Id., sec. 4, with verbal changes.)

§ 6. No person or persons shall hereafter construct any porch over a cellar door under the penalty of fifty dollars. (Id., sec. 6.) § 7. No person or persons shall construct or continue any platform, stoop or step in any street in that section of the city formerly known as Long Island City which shall extend more than one-tenth part of the width of the street, nor more than six feet, nor with any other than open backs or sides, or railing; nor of greater width than is necessary for the purpose of a convenient passageway into the house or building; nor any stoop which shall exceed five feet in height under the penalty of fifty dollars. (Id., sec. 7, with verbal changes.) § 8. All persons who wish hereafter to erect balustrades projecting beyond the street line shall first obtain a written permit from the President of the Borough. (Id., sec. 9, with verbal changes.)

§ 9. No balustrades shall hereafter be erected, excepting from the second story of any house, nor shall it project more than onetwentieth of the width of the street wherein it may be erected, nor more than three feet in any case whatever. (Id., sec. 10.)

§ 10. No braces or railings shall be used for balustrades unless the strength and firmness shall have been tested or approved by the President of the Borough, and in case he shall object to the same,

it shall be made as he shall direct or removed, under the penalty of five dollars for each day's maintenance. (Id., sec. 11, with verbal changes.)

§ 11. No person shall place or fix, or continue in any street in this city, any awning-post, or any cloth or canvas for an awning, unless under the direction of the President of the Borough and made comformably to the next section of this chapter, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 12, with verbal changes.)

§ 12. No posts fixed in any street for the purpose of supporting any awning shall exceed nine inches in diameter, and the rail crossing the same shall not exceed seven inches in width or height and four inches in thickness; the said posts shall be placed next to and along the inside of the curbstone, and the upper side of the rail, which is intended to support the awning, shall not be less than eight feet nor over ten feet in height above the sidewalk, and the cross-rail shall be strongly mortised through the upright posts. (Id., sec. 13.)

§ 13. It shall be the duty of the President of the Borough to order and direct any awning-post which is erected or continued in any street in that section of the city formerly known as Long Island City contrary to the provisions of this ordinance to be forthwith removed; and any person who shall neglect or refuse to comply with such direction and order, shall forfeit and pay for every such offense the sum of five dollars. (Id., sec. 14, with verbal changes.)

§ 14. The owners or occupants of property in any street of this city exceeding the width of forty feet and from which the wooden awning-posts have been or may hereafter be directed to be removed, shall be, and they are hereby permitted to erect in front of their respective buildings thereon iron posts, and none others, for the support of awnings, with an iron cross-rail, which shall be nine feet and no more, from the curbstone to the top of said rail; said post shall be placed eight inches within the outer side of the curbstone, having the approval of the President of the Borough. (Id., sec. 15.)

8 15. Such iron posts, as well as those which may be at the time of the passage of this ordinance erected in any street of this city, shall be well and securely braced from the building with wrought iron rails or rods at least one inch in diameter, in the proportion of one brace for every post. (Id., sec. 16.)

§ 16. The owner or occupants of property in any street not exceeding the width of forty feet shall be and they are hereby permitted to construct from their respective building thereon wrought iron brackets for the support of awnings, which said brackets shall be firmly secured to the building and project on a line with the inner side of the curbstone, and shall be eight feet and six inches, and no more, in height from the curbstone to the top of the outer crossrail. (Id., sec. 17.)

§ 17. It shall be the duty of the President of the Borough to order and direct the removal forthwith of all iron awningposts and brackets which are now or may be hereafter erected, constructed and continued in any street of that section of the city, formerly known as Long Island City, contrary to the preceding provisions of these ordinances; ard any person who shall neglect or refuse to comply with such

direction or order shall forfeit and pay for each such offense the sum of five dollars. (Id., sec. 18, with verbal changes.)

18. The preceding sections relating to awnings and awning-posts shall apply where the erection of iron awningposts and brackets are permitted by these ordinances. (Id., sec. 19.)

19. No portion or part of any cloth or canvas used as an awning shall hang loosely down from the same over the sidewalk or footpath, under the penalty of five dollars for each day's offense. (Id., sec. 20.)

§ 20. The President of the Borough is hereby authorized, whenever he shall deem it proper, to order any step stone used for entering carriages, any railing or fence, any sign, sign post, or other post, any area, bay window, or any other window, porch, cellar door, platform, stoop or step, or any other thing, which may encumber or obstruct any street, to be altered or removed therefrom within such time as shall be limited by the said President of the Borough. (Id., sec. 21, with verbal changes.)

§ 21. No person or persons in that section of the city, formerly known as Long Island City, whether agent, owner or employee, shall suffer or permit any cask, bale, bundle, box or any other goods, wares, or merchandise or any boards, planks, joists, or other timber, or anything whatsoever to be raised from any street, on the outside of any building, into any loft, store or room, or to be lowered from the same, on the outside of any building, by means of any rope, pulley, tackle, or windlass, except by permission of the President of the Borough, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars to be recovered by an action, from such person, agent, owner or employer. (Id., sec. 29, with verbal changes.)

Article IV.- Streets and Sidewalks.

§ 22. If any cartman or other person shall break or otherwise injure any footpath or sidewalk, he or they shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter, cause the same to be well and sufficiently repaired and mended, under the penalty of ten dollars. (Id., sec. 33.)

§ 23. No person, without permission of the President of the Borough, shall take up, remove or carry away any turf, stone, sand, clay or earth from any street, public place or highway in that section of the city formerly known as Long Island City, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense. (Id., sec. 35, with verbal changes.)

§ 24. No pavement or flagging in any street in that section of the city formerly known as Long Island City which has been accepted by The City of New York, or to be kept in repair at the public expense, shall hereafter be taken up, or the flagging or paving stones removed therefrom, for any purpose whatever without the permission of the President of the Borough, and the deposit of such sum as he may reasonably require to secure the relaying of the same,