S.I. No. 5/1973:

NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS PARKING BYE-LAWS, 1972.

NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS PARKING BYE-LAWS, 1972.

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS.

1. Short title.

2. Area of application.

3. Parking in accordance with traffic signs, and compliance therewith.

4. Roadways where parking prohibited.

5. Savers.

S.I. No. 5 of 1973.

NEWMARKET-ON-FERGUS PARKING BYE-LAWS, 1972.

I, MICHAEL J. WYMES, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 90 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) (as amended by section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, 1968 (No. 25 of 1968), with the consent of the Minister for Local Government and after consultation with the council of the county of Clare, hereby make the following bye-laws in respect of the area comprising the townlands of Rathfolan and Boheraroan in the county of Clare:

1. These bye-laws may be cited as the Newmarket-on-Fergus Parking Bye-Laws, 1972.

2. These bye-laws apply to the area comprising the townlands of Rathfolan and Boheraroan in the county of Clare.

3. (1) Parking of vehicles on public roads shall be in accordance with any prohibition, restriction or requirement indicated by means of a traffic sign, except as otherwise provided by these bye-laws.

(2) A driver shall comply with a prohibition, restriction or requirement indicated by means of a traffic sign.

4. (1) A vehicle shall not be parked on a stretch of roadway having less than three traffic lanes and having along its centre an authorised continuous white line or more than one such line.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to a pedal cycle or to a motor cycle without a side-car.

5. A prohibition or restriction on parking indicated by means of a traffic sign or imposed by these bye-laws shall not apply to--

( a ) an omnibus lawfully stopped,

( b ) a vehicle being used in connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic, the repair, maintenance or reconstruction of a public road, or the provision, alteration or repair of a telegraph line, telephone line, sewer, main, pipe or apparatus relating to the supply of gas, water or electricity,

( c ) a fire engine, ambulance or Garda Síochána vehicle being used in pursuance of statutory powers or duties,

( d ) a vehicle parked because the driver is unable to proceed because of circumstances outside his control or because he parked in order to avoid an accident,

( e ) a vehicle parked while a passenger is entering or leaving it,

( f ) a vehicle which has either been damaged in an accident or had a breakdown and has been parked while such repairs as will enable it to be moved from the public road are carried out on it,

( g ) a vehicle parked merely while goods are being loaded or unloaded in or on to or from it, or while fuel or oil for it is being supplied or delivered to it.

GIVEN under my hand this 9th day of August, 1972.

MICHAEL J. WYMES,

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.

The Minister for Local Government hereby consents to the making of the foregoing bye-laws.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government, this 9th day of January, 1973.

ROBERT MOLLOY,

Aire Rialtais Áitiúil.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

1. Bye-law 3 provides that the parking of vehicles on public roads in the townlands of Rathfolan and Boheraroan in the county of Clare will be in compliance with any traffic sign erected on that road, and that drivers shall comply with traffic signs.

2. Bye-law 4 provides that vehicles will not be parked on a roadway having a continuous white line and less than three traffic lanes.

3. Bye-law 5 outlines the cases in which a vehicle may be parked in a street where a prohibition on parking applies.