FRANCISTOWN TOWN COUNCIL ROADS AND TRAFFIC BYE-LAWS

(under regulations 34 and 35)

(5th September, 1997)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

    BYE-LAW

PART I
Preliminary

    1.    Citation

    2.    Application

    3.    Interpretation

    4.    Queues

    5.    Damage to signs

    6.    Numbering of houses and buildings

PART II
Parking of Vehicles

    7.    Parking - general

    8.    Time limit parking

    9.    Metered parking bays

    10.    Motor omnibus stopping places

PART III
Municipal Car Parks

    11.    Presumption

    12.    Entry to municipal car parks

    13.    Manner of parking

    14.    Charges for parking

    15.    Parking tickets

PART IV
Private Car Parks

    16.    Establishment of private car parks

    17.    Control and maintenance of private car parks

    18.    Contraventions of conditions

    19.    Penalties

PART V
Defences

    20.    Defences

S.I. 79, 1997.

PART I
Preliminary (bye-laws 1-6)

1.    Citation

    These Bye-Laws may be cited as the Francistown Town Council Roads and Traffic Bye-Laws*.

*Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.

2.    Application

    These Bye-Laws shall apply to—

    (a)    the municipal area of Francistown; and

    (b)    land owned or governed by the municipality but outside the limits of the municipal area of Francistown.

3.    Interpretation

    In these Bye-Laws—

    "authorised official" means any person authorised by the Council for the purpose of giving effect to these bye-laws;

    "bus stop" means a place on an omnibus route intended for the picking up and depositing of passengers, which may be demarcated by yellow lines and indicated by a sign bearing the words "Bus Stop" or the word "Bus" painted in yellow on the road surface within such bus stop;

    "carriageway" means that portion of a road formed for the use of vehicular traffic and includes that portion of a road between kerbs or temporary kerbs;

    "Council" means the Town Council of Francistown;

    "cycle", "motor vehicle", "motor cycle", "heavy commercial vehicle", "omnibus", "taxi", "trailer" and "vehicle" have the meaning assigned to them in the Road Traffic Act (Cap. 69:01);

    "forward parking" means driving a motor vehicle forward into a parking bay;

    "invalid carriage" means a vehicle propelled by mechanical power and specially designed, constructed or adapted for the use of persons suffering from some physical defect or disability;

    "land" includes an improvement or building thereon;

    "maintenance" includes repair and renewal, and maintain shall be constructed accordingly;

    "metered parking bay" means a parking bay whereon the parking of motor vehicles is controlled and regulated by a parking meter;

    "municipal car park" means any land which is provided and maintained by the Council as a place for the parking of motor vehicles, whether or not a charge is levied for parking;

    "no parking area" means an area in any road which is designated by means of—

    (a)    a sign or signs erected or placed so as to indicate the extremities of the area and bearing the words "No Parking";

    (b)    visible marking on the surface of the road so as to define the boundaries of the area, and with the words "No parking" painted thereon; or

    (c)    yellow lines painted on the road, parallel to the kerb;

    "parking bay" means a subdivision of a car park or of a parking area intended for the accommodation of a single vehicle;

    "parking meter" means a mechanical device for the purpose of controlling and regulating the parking of motor vehicles in parking bays or in parking areas where such meters are installed, and includes the standard to which the meter is affixed;

    "parking area"—

    (a)    in relation to motor vehicles, other than omnibuses, motor cycles having less than three wheels and cycles, means an area which is designated by white boundary lines (whether continuous or broken) on the surface of a road so as to define the boundaries of the area where such vehicles may park;

    (b)    in relation to omnibuses, taxis, motor cycles having less than three wheels or cycles, means an area which is designated by means of yellow boundary lines (whether continuous or broken) on the surface of the road so as to define the boundaries of the area where such vehicles may park, and with the word or words "buses", "taxis", "motor cycles", or "cycles", as the case may be, painted on the road surface: