GABORONE CITY COUNCIL (PARKING GROUNDS) BYE-LAWS

(under section 44 & 45)

(11th December, 2015)

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

BYE-LAWS

PART I
Preliminary

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

    3.    Application

PART II
Ticket-controlled parking ground

    4.    Minimum parking period and parking fees

    5.    Ticket-controlled parking ground

    6.    Mechanical parking ground

    7.    Monthly ticket

    8.    Vehicles of excessive size

PART III
Parking ground meters

    9.    Place of parking

    10.    Conditions of parking

    11.    Prohibitions relating to parking meters

    12.    Proof of time of parking

PART IV
Pay and display parking grounds

    13.    Pay and display parking ground

    14.    Prohibitions relating to pay and display machines

    15.    Proof of date and time of departure

PART V
Private car parks

    16.    Private car park

    17.    Control and maintenance of private car park

PART VI
Miscellaneous

    18.    Power of Council to determine parking fees

    19.    Closure of parking grounds

    20.    Defective vehicles

    21.    Cleaning, washing or repairing of vehicles in parking grounds prohibited

    22.    Parking according to instruction

    23.    Parking after parking period

    24.    Persons prohibited from being in parking grounds

    25.    Abandoned vehicles

    26.    Refusal of admission

    27.    Exemptions

    28.    Offences and penalties

S. I. 112, 2015.

PART I
Preliminary

1.    Citation

    These Bye-laws may be cited as the Gaborone City Council (Parking Grounds) Bye-laws.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

    "authorised person" means a person authorised by the Council to supervise or control parking grounds;

    "Council" means the Gaborone City Council;

    "impound area" means any place, whether privately or publicly owned or controlled, where the Council may park a vehicle seized or impounded in terms of these bye-laws;

    "law enforcement officer" means a person appointed by the Council as such under section 52(1) of the Act;

    "parking bay" means an area demarcated as such upon the surface of a parking ground within which a vehicle is to be parked in terms of these bye-Jaws;

    "parking ground" means any area of land or any building set aside by the Council as a parking ground for the parking of vehicles by members of the public;

    "parking device" means a device for registering and visibly recording, in exchange for the right to park, a vehicle in a parking ground for a limited amount of time, upon insertion of a coin or other prescribed method of payment, and includes any post or fixture to which the device is attached;

    "parking period" means that period, including a period reflected on a parking meter, on any one day during which a vehicle is permitted to park in a parking ground, parking bay or as indicated by a road traffic sign;

    "pay and display machine" means a machine installed at a pay and display parking ground for the sale of tickets on which the following are reflected—

    (a)     the date or day of issue of the ticket;

    (b)    the amount paid for the ticket;

    (c)    the departure time; and

    (d)    the machine code number;