WHEREAS the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána has, before making the bye-laws hereinafter set forth, consulted the Council of the County of Laois in regard thereto :—

NOW, I, MICHAEL J. KINNANE, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (1) of section 150 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), and of every and any other power me in this behalf enabling, hereby, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, testified by his official seal affixed hereto, make the following bye-laws in respect of the area consisting of the District in Portarlington that is to say :—

1 Short Title.

1. These bye-laws may be cited as the Portarlington Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Bye-Laws, 1950.

2 Interpretation.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to these bye-laws.

3 Definitions.

3. (1) In these bye-laws—

the expression " the Act " means the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933),

the word " vehicle " means a mechanically propelled vehicle,

the word " day-time " means the period beginning at 10 a.m. on any day and ending at 7 p.m. on the same day,

the word " night-time " means the period beginning at 7 p.m. on any day and ending at 10 a.m. on the next day,

the word " park " when used as a verb means to keep or leave a vehicle (whether in charge or not in charge of any person) stationary in a place which is a parking place by virtue of these bye-laws,

the expression " keep a vehicle waiting " means to keep or leave a vehicle (whether in charge or not in charge of any person) stationary in a public place which is not a parking place, for any purpose other than actually taking up or setting down passengers, or loading or unloading goods, and similar expressions and the word " wait " and cognate words shall be construed accordingly ;

the expression " authorised sign " means any notice, mark or other sign for the guidance of traffic which is placed at the side or on the surface of a roadway by the Council charged with the maintenance of such roadway, and any portable notice placed by a member of the Garda Síochána on such roadway, or on a footway adjacent thereto ;

the word " street " means a public road ;

the expression " district in Portarlington " means the townland of Coolederry in the District Electoral Division of Portarlington South.

(2) Every mention in these bye-laws or in any of the Schedules to these bye-laws of the name of any street, bridge, or other place shall be construed as referring to the street, bridge, or other place (as the case may be) in the district in Portarlington which is known (whether by official naming or by popular usage) by that name.

(3) Every expression and word used in these bye-laws to which a particular meaning is given by section 3 of the act shall, save as is otherwise provided by the first paragraph of this bye-law, have in these bye-laws the meaning given to it by the said section 3.

PART II. PARKING PLACES.

4 Appointment of parking places.

4. (1) In the street named in the second column of the First Schedule to these bye-laws, the place delimited in the third column of the said First Schedule shall be a parking place both in the daytime and in the night-time and every vehicle parked therein shall be placed in the position specified in the fourth column of the said Schedule.

(2) No vehicle shall be parked in a parking place mentioned in the First Schedule hereto for a continuous period, ending in the day-time, which exceeds the period stated in the fifth column of the said Schedule and no vehicle shall be parked in such parking place for a continuous period, ending in the night-time, which exceeds the period stated in the sixth column of the said Schedule.

5 Power to close a parking place in an emergency.

5. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Part of these bye-laws—

(a) a member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of Inspector may, on the occasion of any public procession or any other event which is likely to cause an unusual concourse of persons at or in the vicinity of a particular parking place, or for any other reason applicable to a particular parking place, and appearing to him to be good and sufficient, prohibit the parking of vehicles in such parking place during such period as shall, in his opinion, be necessary for such reason ; and

(b) any member of the Garda Síochána on duty at or in the vicinity of a parking place mentioned in the First Schedule to these bye-laws may, whenever he thinks proper so to do because of a fire, flood, accident or other emergency, prohibit the parking of vehicles in such parking place.

(2) Whenever a member of the Garda Síochána in exercise of a power conferred on him by this bye-law, prohibits the parking of vehicles in a parking place, such member may remove or cause to be removed from such parking place every vehicle which is in such parking place at the commencement of such prohibition, or enters such parking place in contravention of such prohibition, and such member may so remove such vehicle or cause it to be removed, whether there is or is not any person present in charge of such vehicle.

6 Saving for vehicles loading or unloading, etc.

6. Nothing in these bye-laws shall prevent a vehicle being brought into or kept stationary in a parking place for the purpose of taking up or setting down passengers coming from or going to premises fronting such parking place or loading or unloading goods from or into any such premises.

PART III. WAITING ELSEWHERE THAN IN PARKING PLACES.

7 Restrictions on Vehicles Waiting in Streets.

7. (1) No person shall keep a vehicle waiting in the day-time in any street (or portion of a street) mentioned in the second column of the Second Schedule to these bye-laws for any period on the side or sides of the street mentioned in respect of such street or portion of such street in the third column of the said Second Schedule opposite the mention of such street or portion of such street in the said second column.

(2) No person shall keep a vehicle waiting at any time for any period in any street or portion of a street mentioned in the second column of the Third Schedule to these bye-laws on the side or sides of the street mentioned in respect of such street or portion of such street in the third column of the said Third Schedule opposite the mention of such street or portion of such street in the said second column.

8 General provisions in relation to the keeping of vehicles waiting in streets.

8. The following provisions shall apply to the keeping of vehicles waiting in streets in the district in Portarlington at places in those streets which are neither parking places nor places at which such waiting is for the time being prohibited by this Part of these bye-laws, that is to say :—

(a) no person shall keep a vehicle waiting in any street at a place in respect of which there is an authorised sign prohibiting the keeping of vehicles waiting at such places ;

(b) no person shall keep a vehicle waiting in any street at a place which is an appointed stopping place for large public service vehicles, or an appointed standing for street service vehicles ;

(c) no person shall keep a vehicle waiting in any such place, position, or manner as to obstruct, delay, or interfere with the entrance to or exit from a fire brigade station maintained by a local authority, or an ambulance station similarly maintained ;

(d) no person shall keep a vehicle waiting at or near a street junction in such a position that such vehicle or any part thereof is inside, or within thirty feet on either side from, the space between the prolongation into the street in which such vehicle is waiting of the building lines on each side of any street entering such first mentioned street on the side thereof on which such vehicle is waiting ;

(e) no person shall keep a vehicle waiting in any street in such place, position, or manner that there is not sufficient space between such vehicle and one side of such street, or between such vehicle and any stationary vehicle or other object on the opposite side of such street for the free movement of the normal flow of vehicular traffic through such street ;

(f) the driver, owner, or other person in charge of a vehicle waiting in a street shall comply immediately with all directions given to him by a member of the Garda Síochána in relation to the keeping of such vehicle waiting at such place, or the removal of such vehicle from such place.

9 Power to prohibit waiting in particular places in an emergency.

9. (1) This bye-law applies to every place in any street in the district in Portarlington which is neither a parking place nor a place in which the keeping of vehicles waiting is for the time being prohibited by this Part of these bye-laws.

(2) A member of the Garda Síochána not below the rank of Inspector may, on the occasion of any public procession or any other event which is likely to cause an unusual concourse of persons at a place to which this bye-law applies, or for any other reason applicable to a particular place to which this bye-law applies, and appearing to him to be good and sufficient, prohibit during such period as shall, in his opinion, be necessary for such reason the keeping of vehicles waiting in such place.

(3) A member of the Garda Síochána on duty at a place to which this bye-law applies may, whenever he thinks proper so to do because of a fire, flood, accident or other emergency, prohibit the keeping of vehicles waiting in such place.

(4) Whenever a member of the Garda Síochána in exercise of a power conferred on him by this bye-law prohibits the keeping of vehicles waiting in a place to which this bye-law applies, such members may remove or cause to be removed from such place every vehicle which is waiting in such place at the commencement of such prohibition or is kept waiting in such place in contravention of such prohibition, and such member may so remove such vehicle or cause it to be removed, whether there is or is not any person present in charge of such vehicle.

10 Saving in respect of this Part of these bye-laws.

10. The provisions contained in this Part of these bye-laws shall be construed and shall operate as restrictions on the keeping or leaving of vehicles stationary in the streets in the district in Portarlington additional to and not in substitution for any restriction, limitation, or prohibition of such keeping or leaving for the time being existing by law, and nothing in these bye-laws shall be construed or operate to create or confer any right to keep or leave a vehicle stationary in any such street.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

PARKING PLACES AVAILABLE DAY AND NIGHT.

Ref. No.	Name of Street	Limits of Parking Place	Position of Vehicles in Parking Place.	Maximum Period of Parking
Day-time	Night-time
(I)	(II)	(III)	(IV)	(V)	(VI)
1	Market Square	On east side of the roadway between the north and south sides of the square, entrance to the Cinema to be kept clear.	Side by side in rows, facing the Market House.	Six hours	Six hours

SECOND SCHEDULE.

STREETS OR PORTIONS OF STREETS IN WHICH WAITING IS PROHIBITED ON ONE SIDE IN THE DAY-TIME.

Ref. No.	Name of Street	Side on which Waiting is Prohibited
(I)	(II)	(III)
1	Main Street, the portion between the Post Office and Market Square.	West Side.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

STREETS OR PORTIONS OF STREETS IN WHICH WAITING IS WHOLLY PROHIBITED AT ALL TIMES.

Ref. No.	Name of Street.	Side or Sides on which Waiting is Prohibited.
(I)	(II)	(III)
1	Foxcroft Street, the portion between "Bella Vista" House and Main Street.	Both sides.

GIVEN under my hand this 29th day of April, 1950.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KINNANE,

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.

WHEREAS in pursuance of section 8 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), the Commissioner has submitted the foregoing bye-laws to the Minister for Local Government; AND WHEREAS the provisions of subsections (1) and (5) of the said section 8 have been compiled with in relation to the said bye-laws; NOW THEREFORE the Minister for Local Government in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 150 of the said Act hereby consents to the making of the said bye-laws.

GIVEN under the official Seal of the Minister for Local Government, this twenty-second day of June, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KEYES,

Minister for Local Government.