WHEREAS the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána has, before making the bye-laws hereinafter set forth, consulted the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Borough of Drogheda 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 137 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 Borough of Drogheda, that is to say :—

1 Short title.

1. These bye-laws may be cited as the Drogheda Appointed Standings (Street Service Vehicles) Bye-Laws, 1951.

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 word " street " means a public road ;

the expression " authorised sign " means any notice, mark or other sign for 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 Gárda Síochána on such roadway or on a footway adjacent thereto ;

references to the head of an appointed standing shall be construed as referring to that end of such appointed standing from which the limits of such appointed standing are reckoned in the third column of the Schedule to these bye-laws and references to the rear of an appointed standing shall accordingly be construed as referring to that end of such appointed standing to which the limits of such appointed standing are similarly reckoned ; and references to the order of the vehicles on an appointed standing shall be construed as referring to the order of such vehicles reckoned from the head of such appointed standing towards the rear thereof.

(2) Every mention in these bye-laws or in the Schedule 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 Borough of Drogheda which is known (whether by official name or 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 Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), shall have in these bye-laws the meaning given to it by the said section 3.

4 Appointment of appointed standings.

4. In the several streets named in the second column of the Schedule to these bye-laws, the place or each of the places delimited in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the name in the said second column of any such street shall be an appointed standing available, subject to the provisions of these bye-laws, for use without limitation as to time or occasion of user.

5 Position of vehicles on appointed standings.

5.—(1) For the purposes of these bye-laws, a street service vehicle shall not be deemed to be standing for hire on an appointed standing unless the whole of such vehicle is within the limits of such appointed standing as stated in the third column of the Schedule to these bye-laws.

(2) Every street service vehicle standing for hire on an appointed standing shall be placed in the position specified in the fifth column of the Schedule to these bye-laws opposite the mention of such appointed standing in the third column of such Schedule and shall be placed in such position either, as the case shall require, at the head of such appointed standing or next in order to the vehicle or the last of the vehicles already on such appointed standing and no street service vehicle shall be deemed for the purposes of these bye-laws to be standing for hire on such appointed standing unless it is so placed.

6 Maximum number of street service vehicles at an appointed standing.

6. Whenever the number of street service vehicles standing for hire on an appointed standing is equal to the number mentioned in the fourth column of the Schedule to these bye-laws opposite the mention of such appointed standing in the third column of such Schedule, it shall not be lawful for the driver of any other street service vehicle to place such other street service vehicle on such appointed standing.

7 Provisions in respect of vacancies at appointed standings.

7. Whenever a vacancy is caused at an appointed standing by the removal therefrom of a street service vehicle (in this bye-law referred to as the departing vehicle) the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say :—

(a) the street service vehicle (if any) which prior to such removal was next in order to the departing vehicle shall be moved by the driver thereof into the place vacated by the departing vehicle ;

(b) the street service vehicle (if any) which was next in order to the street service vehicle so moved shall then be moved by the driver thereof into the place vacated by the street service vehicle so moved, and

(c) every other (if any) street service vehicle on such appointed standing which was farther than the departing vehicle from the head of such appointed standing shall be moved in like manner by the driver thereof into the place left vacant by the moving in accordance with this bye-law of the street service vehicle next in order and nearer to the head of such appointed standing.

8 General provisions relating to appointed standings.

8. The following general provisions shall apply in respect of street service vehicles standing for hire on an appointed standing, that is to say :—

(a) no street service vehicle shall be so placed on any appointed standing that any part of such vehicle or any attachment to such vehicle projects over the footway (if any) against or parallel to which it is so placed ;

(b) no person shall wash, overhaul or execute repairs to a street service vehicle, while it is standing for hire on an appointed standing, except such repairs as may be necessary to enable such vehicle to be removed from such appointed standing ;

(c) neither the driver of nor any passenger in a street service vehicle which is standing for hire on an appointed standing shall make any unnecessary noise by means of or in relation to such vehicle or the engine or any fitting thereof ;

(d) the driver of a street service vehicle which is placed on or being brought into or removed from any appointed standing shall comply with every (if any) authorised sign placed at such appointed standing in regard to the user thereof and with all directions given to him by a member of the Garda Síochána in relation to the placing of such vehicle on such appointed standing or the bringing it into or removing it from such appointed standing.

9 Power to close an appointed standing.

9.—(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in these bye-laws—

(a) a member of the Garda Siochana 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 appointed standing or for any other reason applicable to a particular appointed standing and appearing to him to be good and sufficient, prohibit the placing of street service vehicles on such appointed standing 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 an appointed standing may, whenever he thinks proper so to do because of a fire, flood, accident or other emergency, prohibit the placing of street service vehicles on such appointed standing.

(2) Whenever a member of the Garda Síochána in exercise of a power conferred on him by this bye-law, prohibits the placing of street service vehicles on an appointed standing, such member may remove or cause to be removed from such appointed standing every street service vehicle which is on such appointed standing at the commencement of such prohibition or enters such appointed standing 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 General restrictions on street service vehicles standing for hire.

10. No driver of a street service vehicle shall stand such vehicle for hire in the Borough of Drogheda otherwise than on an appointed standing and in accordance with these bye-laws.

SCHEDULE.

APPOINTED STANDINGS FOR STREET SERVICE VEHICLES.

Ref. No.	Name of Street	Limits of Appointed Standing	Maximum Number of Vehicles	Position of Vehicles on Appointed Standing
(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)
1	West Street	On north side of the roadway from the eastern boundary wall of St. Peter's Church to a point twenty feet east of the eastern pier of the main Gate of St. Peter's Church.	Two	In single line by the kerb and parallel thereto, facing towards St. Laurence Street.
2	West Street	On north side of the roadway from a point ten feet west of the western pier of the Mortuary Gate of St. Peter's Church to the eastern gable of the Post Office.	One	In line by the kerb and parallel thereto, facing towards St. Laurence Street.
3	St. Laurence Street	On north side of the roadway from a point ten feet west of the entrance to the Grammar School residence to the western gable of the Grammar School.	Six	In single line by the kerb and parallel thereto, facing towards St. Laurence Gate.
4	George's Square	On east side of the Square from the southern gable of the public lavatory to a point twenty-four feet south thereof.	Three	Side by side with rear to kerb.
5	Dublin Road	On south side of the roadway from the eastern gable of No. 1 to the entrance to The Hollow.	Six	In single line by the kerb and parallel thereto, facing towards James' Street.

GIVEN under my hand this 21st day of November, 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 complied 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 137 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-fifth day of January, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-One.

(Signed) MICHAEL J. KEYES,

Minister for Local Government