Road Traffic Act, 1933
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Provision of vehicle stations by local authorities. |
153.—(1) In this section the expression “local authority” means a sanitary authority within the meaning of the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931, and the expression “vehicle station” means a place (not being part of a road) provided by a local authority under this section for the purpose of affording a place for the temporary deposit of mechanically propelled vehicles for safe custody or for the purpose of affording a place for the reception and discharge of passengers and goods into or from public service vehicles or for both those purposes. | |
(2) A local authority may, with the consent of the Minister, provide such one or more vehicle stations as they consider desirable in order to relieve or prevent congestion of traffic, and for that purpose may, with the consent of the Minister purchase or take on lease any land or any easement in to or over land or utilise any land which may lawfully be appropriated for such purpose. | ||
(3) 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 sub-section (2) of section 203 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , may be published in any month, and that the notices mentioned in the said sub-section shall be served in the next succeeding month. | ||
(4) A local authority may take all such steps as may be necessary to adapt any land acquired or utilised by them as a vehicle station for use as such vehicle station, and may appoint officers or employ servants for the superintendence and management of such vehicle station. | ||
(5) A local authority may make bye-laws as to the use of any vehicle station provided by the local authority under this section, and in particular in relation to any of the following matters, that is to say:— | ||
(a) restricting the class of vehicles which may be admitted to such vehicle station; | ||
(b) appointing the charges to be made for the use of such vehicle station or any part thereof; | ||
(c) appointing the time for which any vehicle may remain in such vehicle station. | ||
(6) Sections 219 to 223 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878 , as adapted by or under any Act of the Oireachtas shall apply to bye-laws made under this section in like manner as those sections apply to bye-laws made under that Act. | ||
(7) When a local authority acquires or utilises any land for a vehicle station and such station is intended for use by public service vehicles, the local authority may, with the consent of the Minister, provide, as part of such vehicle station, waiting rooms, ticket offices, lavatories, and other similar accommodation in connection therewith. | ||
(8) A local authority shall have power to raise any expenses incurred by them under this section by means of rates or borrowing in the same manner and subject to the same conditions in and subject to which such local authority is empowered to raise any expenses incurred under the Public Health Acts, 1878 to 1931. |