Road Traffic Act, 1961
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Provision of car parks by local authorities. |
101.—(1) In this section— | |
“local authority” means a sanitary authority within the meaning of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Acts, 1878 to 1952; | ||
“car park” means a place (not being part of a public road) for the parking of mechanically propelled vehicles. | ||
(2) A local authority may provide such one or more car parks (and access thereto) as they consider desirable in order to relieve or prevent traffic congestion. | ||
(3) A local authority may, with the consent of the Minister, assist any person providing a car park, and the assistance may consist either of a contribution of money or the execution of works or the grant or lease of land. | ||
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2) or subsection (3) of this section, a local authority may, with the consent of the Minister, purchase or take on lease any land or any easement in, to or over the land or use any land which they have acquired for another purpose. | ||
(5) Sections 203 , 214 and 215 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , as amended by section 8 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1896 , and section 68 of the Local Government Act, 1925 , shall apply to the acquisition of land by a local authority under this section, but with the modification that the advertisements mentioned in subsection (2) of section 203 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , may be published in any month, and that the notices mentioned in that subsection shall be served in the next succeeding month. | ||
(6) Subsection (2) of this section shall be construed as conferring on a local authority— | ||
(a) power, subject to the consent of the Minister, to erect a building used wholly or mainly for parking mechanically propelled vehicles, | ||
(b) power, subject to the consent of the Minister, to erect waiting rooms, cloak rooms and similar facilities for any car park provided by them, | ||
(c) power to adapt land for use as a car park. | ||
(7) A local authority may make bye-laws as to the use of any car park provided by them under this section, and, in particular, in relation to all or any of the following matters: | ||
(a) restricting the classes of vehicles which may be admitted to the car park; | ||
(b) specifying the charges to be made for the use of the car park; | ||
(c) specifying the periods for which vehicles may remain in the car park. | ||
(8) Sections 219 to 223 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , shall apply to bye-laws under this section in like manner as they apply to bye-laws under that Act. | ||
(9) Where a local authority become of opinion that the land used for a car park provided by them under this section should be used for a different purpose for which they may lawfully use land, the local authority may terminate the use of the land for a car park. | ||
(10) A local authority who have provided under this section a car park may, with the consent of the Minister, sell or lease the car park or any part thereof to any person subject to such conditions as they think proper. | ||
(11) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, make grants from the Road Fund towards the expenses incurred under this section by a local authority. |