S.I. No. 110/1962 - Limerick Traffic Bye-Laws, 1962

S.I. No. 110 of 1962.

LIMERICK TRAFFIC BYE-LAWS, 1962

WHEREAS the Commissioner of the Garda Siochána has, before making the bye-laws hereinafter set forth, consulted the Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Limerick in regard thereto :

NOW, I, DANIEL COSTIGAN, Commissioner of the Garda Siochána in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 89 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , (No. 24 of 1961), and with the consent of the Minister for Local Government, hereby make the following bye-laws in respect of the area consisting of the County Borough of Limerick :—

1 Short title.

1. These bye-laws may be cited as the Limerick Traffic Bye-laws, 1962.

2 Interpretation.

2.—(1) In these bye-laws—

" the Act " means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) ;

" cattle " includes oxen, bulls, bullocks, cows and heifers ;

" the County Borough " means the County Borough of Limerick ;

" sheep " includes rams, ewes and lambs ;

" street " has the same meaning as " public road " has in the Act ;

" swine " includes boars, sows and pigs of any age ;

" traffic " includes vehicles and animals (other than dogs and cats) of every description ;

" vehicle " does not include a vehicle running on permanent rails.

(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 County Borough 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 paragraph (1) of this bye-law, have in these bye-laws the meaning given to it by that section.

3 Restricted streets.

3.—(1) The several streets or portions of a street mentioned in the First Schedule to these bye-laws shall be restricted streets for the purpose of these bye-laws, and the expression " restricted street " shall, in this bye-law, be construed accordingly.

(2) A person shall not, between the hours of 12 noon and 6.30 p.m. on any day, do any of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) carry or transport any coal along or across the footway in any restricted street into or from any premises (whether situate or not situate in that restricted street) or deliver any coal through an opening in any such footway or deposit any coal on any such footway ;

(b) lift or lower, without the written permission of the Superintendent of the Garda Siochána of the District of Limerick, any articles or goods by means of any crane, derrick, rope, chain, tackle, or other machinery across or over the footway in any restricted street.

(3) Nothing in this bye-law shall apply to anything done in a restricted street in the course and for the purpose of—

(a) repairing that restricted street or a street only accessible by means of that restricted street, or

(b) laying, re-laying, repairing, or removing a sewer, or a drain, or a water or gas main or pipe, or a telephone, telegraph or electricity main or wire in that restricted street or in a street only accessible by means of that restricted street.

4 Prohibition of offensive loads in certain streets.

4. A person shall not drive, lead or conduct any vehicle wholly or partly laden with untanned hides, ordure, dung or manure (other than artificial chemical manure) into or along any street mentioned in the Second Schedule to these bye-laws between the hours of 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. on any day, except for the purpose of transporting the whole or a part of the untanned hides, ordure, dung or manure (as the case may be) with which that vehicle is laden to or from premises either situate in that street or only accessible by means of that street.

5 One-way streets.

5.—(1) Every street mentioned in the first column of the Third Schedule to these bye-laws shall be a one-way street.

(2) A person shall not drive, lead or conduct any vehicle along or through any street mentioned in the first column of the Third Schedule to these bye-laws in any direction other than the direction mentioned in the second column of the said Third Schedule opposite the mention of that street in the said first column.

6 Prohibition of advertisements which cause obstruction.

6.—(1) A person shall not, by doing any of the following things in a street in the County Borough, cause an obstruction of the roadway or of the footway of that street or do, in that street, any such thing in such manner or circumstances as to cause an obstruction of the roadway or the footway of that street, that is to say—

(a) carry by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard or notice,

(b) drive, lead, draw, propel, or otherwise conduct any vehicle or animal having displayed thereon by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard or notice ;

(c) distribute by way of advertisement any picture, print, notice, or other document ;

(d) erect or place on the surface of that street by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard or notice.

(2) Whenever a member of the Garda Síochána observes any person doing, in any street in the County Borough, anything prohibited by paragraph (1) of this bye-law, the member may require that person to cease from doing that thing.

(3) Every person who is required by a member of the Garda Síochána under paragraph (2) of this bye-law to cease from doing any particular thing shall forthwith cease from doing that thing and remove and take away every picture, print, board, placard or notice in relation to which that thing is done.

7 General restrictions on the carriage of advertisements.

7. A person on foot shall not in any street in the County Borough do any of the following things, that is to say—

(a) carry, by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice on any footway, or

(b) carry, by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice which exceeds four feet in length or three feet in width, or

(c) drive, lead, draw, propel, or otherwise conduct any vehicle having thereon, by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice which exceeds six feet in length or four feet six inches in width or of which the highest point is more than four feet above the level of the axle of the wheel or wheels or the largest of the wheels of such vehicle.

8 Minimum numbers of drovers in charge of animals in streets.

8.—(1) It shall not be lawful to drive, lead, or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) in or along any street in the County Borough any number of cattle unless the cattle are in charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers specified in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of the cattle in the first column of the said Table, that is to say—

(2) It shall not be lawful to drive, lead, or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) in or along any street in the County Borough any number of sheep unless the sheep are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers specified in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of the sheep in the first column of the said Table, that is to say—

(3) It shall not be lawful to drive, lead or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) in or along any street in the County Borough any number of swine unless the swine are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers specified in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of the swine in the first column of the said Table, that is to say—

(4) In this bye-law " drover " means a male person not less than eighteen years of age, and for the purposes of this bye-law a drove of animals consisting partly of cattle and partly of sheep shall be deemed to be a drove of cattle, and when reckoning for the said purposes the number of cattle in that drove the sheep therein shall be reckoned as cattle.

9 Restrictions on size of droves of animals in streets.

9. It shall not be lawful to drive, lead or otherwise conduct in or along any street in the County Borough—

(a) a herd of cattle which exceeds fifty in number, or

(b) a flock of sheep which exceeds one hundred in number, or

(c) a herd of swine which exceeds fifty in number, or

(d) a drove of animals containing different kinds of animals which exceeds fifty in number.

10 Method of controlling bulls led through streets.

10. A bull of the age of one year or upwards shall not be driven, led, or otherwise conducted in or along any street in the County Borough unless the bull is in the charge of and accompanied by a male person of not less than eighteen years of age and (except when the bull is being conveyed in a vehicle) is controlled by that person by means of a staff or strong rope at least five feet in length which is held by that person and one end of which is securely and directly attached to a strong ring safely and properly fixed through the nose of the bull.

11 Deposit of goods on the streets.

11.—(1) A person shall not deposit any goods in any street in the County Borough save in the case of fire, flood, accident or other emergency or for the purpose of lawfully loading or unloading a vehicle or animal.

(2) Whenever a person deposits goods in a street in the County Borough because of fire, flood, accident or other emergency, that person shall remove those goods or cause them to be removed from that street as soon as is practicable.

(3) Whenever a person deposits goods in a street in the County Borough for the purpose of lawfully loading or unloading a vehicle or animal, that person—

(a) shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent the deposit causing obstruction or avoidable inconvenience to traffic or pedestrians using that street, and

(b) shall not allow those goods to remain so deposited for longer than is necessary for the purpose of the loading or unloading (as the case may be), and

(c) shall remove those goods from that street as soon as may be practicable having regard to the exigencies of the loading or unloading, as the case may be.

12 Restrictions on the washing of steps.

12. A person shall not at any time, except between the hours of 1 a.m. and 9 a.m., wash any footway or any steps leading on to a footway or on to a roadway in the County Borough by means of water under pressure, whether delivered from a hose or otherwise.

13 Obligation to form queues.

13.—(1) Persons awaiting admission to a building or other place of public amusement or public resort shall arrange themselves in an orderly manner in a queue formed in accordance with this bye-law.

(2) Where there are two or more entrances to any such building or other place a separate queue shall be formed in respect of every entrance at which there are persons awaiting admission.

(3) Every queue shall be formed in accordance with such general directions in relation to the formation of queues as shall be given by the Superintendent of the Garda Síochána of the District of Limerick, and in accordance with such particular directions (not inconsistent with the general directions) as may be given by a member of the Garda Síochána on duty at the place where the queue is formed, or, where there is no such member, by an official of the building or other place for admission to which the queue is formed.

(4) Every queue shall consist of either a single line of persons or of two, and not more than two, lines of persons, and shall, where a footway is available for the purpose, be formed on that footway on either the inner or the outer side thereof in such manner as not to occupy the entire width of that footway or wholly to obstruct the passage of pedestrians along that footway.

(5) Every person seeking admission to a building or other place at an entrance in respect of which a queue is formed shall take his place at the rear of that queue unless he is expressly given some other place in that queue by a person in that queue who for that purpose vacates his place in that queue.

(6) Every person in a queue shall move in an orderly manner towards the entrance in respect of which that queue is formed as the persons in front of him in that queue gain admission at that entrance or move towards that entrance or leave that queue otherwise than for the purpose of giving their places in that queue to other persons.

(7) Whenever a queue is required by this bye-law to be formed in relation to admission to a building or other place, a person shall not enter or attempt to enter that building or other place by an entrance in respect of which a queue is so formed save by means of that queue.

(8) In this bye-law "entrance" means, in relation to a building or other place of public amusement or public resort having a general entrance through which persons are permitted to pass freely on their way to a particular entrance through which admission is permitted only on payment of money or on presentation or surrender of a ticket or similar article, the particular entrance to which the general entrance leads and does not mean or include the general entrance.

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14. The Limerick Traffic Bye-laws, 1939 ( S. R. & O. No. 167 of 1939 ), are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Restricted Streets

1. O'Connell Street.

2. William Street.

3. Catherine Street.

4. Patrick Street.

5. Rutland Street.

6. Thomas Street.

7. Bedford Row, east of Henry Street.

8. Shannon Street, east of Henry Street.

9. Cecil Street, east of Henry Street.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Streets in which Offensive Loads are Prohibited.

1. O'Connell Street.

2. William Street.

3. Catherine Street.

4. Thomas Street.

5. Patrick Street.

6. Sarsfield Street.

7. Bedford Row.

8. Rutland Street.

THIRD SCHEDULE

One-way Streets

GIVEN under my hand, this 23rd day of February, 1962.

(Signed) D. COSTIGAN,

Commissioner of the Garda Siochana.

WHEREAS in pursuance of Section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , (No. 24 of 1961), 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 6 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 89 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 first day of June, 1962.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Bye-laws incorporate Limerick Traffic Bye-laws, 1939, (No. 167 of 1939), which have been revoked, and provide for the following additional one-way streets :—Little Catherine Street, Wickham Street and Todd's Bow.

In addition the direction of the traffic flow in Little William Street and Fox's Bow has been reversed.