No. 134/1939:

CORK TRAFFIC BYE-LAWS, 1939.

CORK TRAFFIC BYE-LAWS, 1939.

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS.

Bye-Law.

1. Short Title.

2. Interpretation.

3. Definitions.

4. Restricted Streets.

5. Certain Prohibitions in relation to Restricted Streets.

6. Crossing Places for Pedestrians.

7. Prohibition of Offensive Loads in certain Streets.

8. One-way Streets.

9. Prohibition of Advertisements which cause Obstruction.

10. Minimum numbers of Drovers in charge of Animals in Streets.

11. Restrictions on size of Droves of Animals in Streets.

12. Method of Controlling Bulls led through Streets.

13. Deposit of Goods in Streets.

14. Restriction on the Washing of Steps, Etc.

15. Obligation to form Queues.

16. Unladen Vehicles proceeding from St. Patrick's Quay and Penrose Quay.

17. Regulation of Traffic in St. Patrick's Street.

First Schedule—Restricted Streets.

Second Schedule—Streets in which Offensive Loads are Prohibited.

Third Schedule—One-way Streets.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS.

1939. No. 134.

CORK TRAFFIC BYE-LAWS, 1939.

WHEREAS it is enacted by sub-section (1) of Section 149 of the Road Traffic Act, 1933 (No. 11 of 1933), that the Commissioner of the Gárda Síocháná may, with the consent of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health and after consultation with the local authority concerned, make in respect of any specified area bye-laws for all or any of the purposes mentioned in that sub-section.

AND WHEREAS, the Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána has, before making the bye-laws hereinafter set forth, consulted the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Cork in regard thereto.

NOW, I, MÍCHEÁL Ó CUINNEÁÍN, Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sub-section (1) of Section 149 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 and Public Health testified by his official seal affixed hereto, make the following bye-laws in respect of the area consisting of the County Borough of Cork.

1. These Bye-laws may be cited as the Cork Traffic Bye-laws, 1939.

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

3. (1) In these bye-laws—

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

the word " vehicle " has the same meaning as it has in the Act save that it does not include a vehicle running on permanent rails ;

the word " driving " when used in relation to a vehicle includes managing and controlling, and the word " driver " and other cognate words shall be construed accordingly ;

the word " traffic " includes vehicles and animals (other than dogs and cats) of every description but does not include pedestrians ;

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

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

the word " sheep " includes rams, ewes, and lambs ;

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

the expression " the County Borough " means the County Borough of Cork.

(2) Every mention in these bye-laws of the name of any street or bridge shall be construed as referring to the street or bridge (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 the first paragraph of this bye-law, have in these bye-laws the meaning given to it by the said Section 3.

4. The several streets mentioned in the First Schedule to these bye-laws shall be restricted streets for the purposes of these bye-laws, and the expression " restricted street " shall, in these bye-laws, be construed accordingly.

5. (1) No person shall, between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6.30 p.m., on any day, do any of the following things, that is to say :—

(a) drive, lead, or conduct into or along any restricted street any vehicle laden with any article which projects more than eight feet six inches beyond the rear of such vehicle, or more than twelve inches beyond either side or both sides of such vehicle ;

(b) lead, drive, or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) any cattle, sheep, or swine into or along any restricted street, unless for the purpose of gaining access to premises in any such street or accessible only through such street.

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

(a) repairing such restricted street or a street only accessible by means of such 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 such restricted street or a street only accessible by means of such restricted street.

6. Wherever a crossing-place for pedestrians over a roadway in the County Borough is indicated by means of signs or marks placed upon the surface of such roadway by the Council charged with the maintenance of such roadway, no pedestrian shall cross such roadway outside and within fifty feet from the crossing-place so indicated.

7. No person shall 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 of the streets mentioned in the Second Schedule to these bye-laws between the hours of 10 a.m. and 6.30 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 such vehicle is laden to or from premises situate in such street or only accessible by means of such street.

8. (1) Every of the streets or portions of a street mentioned in the first column of the Third Schedule to these bye-laws shall be a one-way street during the period or times mentioned in the third column of the said Schedule opposite the mention of such street or portion of a street in the said first column.

(2) No person shall drive, lead, or conduct any vehicle along or through any street or portion of a street mentioned in the first column of the Third Schedule to these bye-laws during any period or time for or at which it is a one-way street in any direction other than the direction mentioned in the second column of the said Third Schedule opposite the mention of such street or portion of a street in the said first column.

9. (1) No person shall, by doing any of the following things in a street within the County Borough, cause an obstruction of the roadway or the footway of such street or do, in any such street, any such thing in such manner or circumstances as to cause an obstruction of the roadway or footway of such 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 any such street by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard, or notice.

(2) Whenever a member of the Gárda Síochána observes any person doing, in any street within the County Borough, any thing mentioned in a sub-paragraph of the foregoing paragraph of this bye-law, such member may, if he is of opinion that the doing of such thing by such person is a contravention of the said foregoing paragraph, require such person to cease from doing such thing.

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

10. (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 such cattle are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers stated in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of such 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 such sheep are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers stated in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of such 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 such swine are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers stated in the second column of the following Table opposite the mention of the number of such swine in the first column of the said Table, that is to say :—

(4) In this bye-law the word " 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 such drove the sheep therein shall be reckoned as cattle.

11. 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.

12. No bull of the age of one year or upwards shall be driven, led, or otherwise conducted in or along any street in the County Borough unless such bull is in the charge of and accompanied by a male person of not less than eighteen years of age and (except when such bull is being conveyed in a vehicle) such bull is controlled by such person by means of a staff or strong rope at least five feet in length which is held by such person and one end of which is securely and directly attached to a strong ring safely and properly fixed through the nose of such bull.

13. (1) No person shall 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 any person deposits any goods in a street in the County Borough because of fire, flood, accident, or other emergency, such person shall remove such goods or cause such goods to be removed from such street as soon as is practicable.

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

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

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

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

14. No person shall, in the County Borough, 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, by means of water under pressure, whether delivered from a hose or otherwise.

15. (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 such 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 Gárda Síochána within whose district such queue is formed and in accordance with such particular directions (not inconsistent with such general directions) as may be given by a member of the Gárda Síochána on duty at the place where such queue is formed, or, where there is no such member, by an official of the building or other place for admission to which such 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 such footway on either the inner or the outer side thereof in such manner as not to occupy the entire width of such footway or wholly to obstruct the passage of pedestrians along such 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 such queue unless he is expressly given some other place in such queue by a person in such queue who for that purpose vacates his place in such queue.

(6) Every person in a queue shall move forwards in an orderly manner towards the entrance in respect of which such queue is formed as the persons in front of him in such queue gain admission at such entrance or move forwards towards such entrance or leave such queue otherwise than for the purpose of giving their places in such 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, no person shall enter or attempt to enter such building or other place by an entrance in respect of which a queue is so formed save by means of such queue or unless or until he has arrived at such entrance by orderly progress in accordance with this bye-law through such queue.

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

16. Every person driving any unladen horse-drawn vehicle, or any unladen heavy motor vehicle or locomotive as defined by the Act, from St. Patrick's Quay or from Penrose Quay to any place southward or westward of either of such quays shall proceed as follows, that is to say :—along so much of either of such quays as shall be necessary to reach Railway Street, or Ship Street, or Brian Boru Street, or Harley Street, as the case may be, thence via whichever of such streets shall be first reached and thereafter via McCurtain Street.

17. (1) Every person who drives a vehicle in an easterly direction along Drawbridge Street to the junction of that street with St. Patrick's Street—

(a) shall, on reaching the said junction, turn such vehicle to the left into the west side of St. Patrick's Street and proceed along that side of that street, and

(b) if desirous of proceeding to any street or part of a street south of St. Patrick's Bridge, other than Lavitt's Quay, shall drive such vehicle along the west side of St. Patrick's Street to the junction with Lavitt's Quay and there turn such vehicle to the right into the east side of St. Patrick's Street.

(2) Every person who drives a vehicle either in a northerly direction along Winthrop Street, or in a southerly direction along William Street to the junction of such streets with St. Patrick's Street, and every person who drives a vehicle in an easterly direction along St. Patrick's Street, if desirous of proceeding to Maylor Street, or to Merchant Street, or to Fishers Lane, shall, on reaching the junction of William Street with St. Patrick's Street, drive such vehicle along the west side of St. Patrick'e Street to the junction with Lavitt's Quay and there turn such vehicle to the right into the east side of St. Patrick's Street.

(3) Every person who drives a vehicle in a southerly direction along either Falkiner's Lane, or Bowling-Green Street, to the junction of either of such streets with St. Patrick's Street—

(a) shall, on reaching the said junction, turn such vehicle to the left into the north side of St. Patrick's Street and proceed along that side of that street, and

(b) if desirous of proceeding to any street entering St. Patrick's Street, from the south side, or to Grand Parade, shall drive such vehicle along the north side of St. Patrick's Street to the junction with William Street and there turn such vehicle to the right into the south side of St. Patrick's Street.

Given under my hand this 26th day of September, 1939.

(Signed) MÍCHEÁL Ó CUINNEÁIN,

Commissioner of the Gárda Síochána.

WHEREAS in pursuance of Section 8 of the Road. Traffic Act, 1933, the Commissioner has submitted the foregoing Bye-laws to the Minister for Local Government and Public Health : AND WHEREAS the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (5) of Section 8 have been complied with in relation to the said Bye-laws : NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the power conferred on him by Section 149 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 and Public Health, this 29th day of November, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-nine.

(Signed) PATRICK RUTTLEDGE,

Minister for Local Government and Public Health.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

RESTRICTED STREETS.

1. Cook Street.

2. Drawbridge Street.

3. Fishers Lane.

4. Grafton Street.

5. Marlboro' Street.

6. Maylor Street.

7. Merchant Street.

8. Morgan Street.

9. Oliver Plunkett Street.

10. Pembroke Street.

11. Prince's Street.

12. Robert Street.

13. SS. Peter and Paul's Place

14. William Street.

15. Winthrop Street.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

STREETS IN WHICH OFFENSIVE LOADS ARE PROHIBITED.

1. Academy Street.

2. Bridge Street.

3. Coburg Street.

4. Cook Street.

5. Cornmarket Street.

6. Drawbridge Street.

7. Emmet Place.

8. Fishers Lane.

9. Grand Parade.

10. Leitrim Street.

11. MacCurtain Street.

12. Marlboro' Street.

13. Maylor Street.

14. Merchant Street.

15. Morgan Street.

16. North Main Street.

17. Oliver Plunkett Street.

18. Parnell Place.

19. Pembroke Street.

20. Prince's Street.

21. Robert Street.

22. St. Patrick's Street.

23. SS. Peter and Paul's Place.

24. South Mall.

25. South Main Street.

26. Washington Street.

27. Winthrop Street.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

ONE-WAY TRAFFIC.