S.I. No. 185/1987:

LONGFORD APPOINTED STANDS (STREET SERVICE VEHICLES) BYE-LAWS, 1987.

LONGFORD APPOINTED STANDS (STREET SERVICE VEHICLES) BYE-LAWS, 1987.

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

1. Short title.

2. Interpretation.

3. Appointment of appointed stands.

4. Position of vehicles at appointed stands.

5. Maximum number of street service vehicles at appointed stands.

6. Vacancies at appointed stands.

7. General provisions relating to appointed stands.

8. General restriction on street service vehicles standing for hire.

S.I. No. 185 of 1987.

LONGFORD APPOINTED STANDS (STREET SERVICE VEHICLES) BYE-LAWS, 1987.

I, LAURENCE WREN, Commissioner of the Garda Síochána, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 84 (as amended by section 6 of the Road Traffic Act, 1968 (No. 25 of 1968)) of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961), the Local Government (Alteration of name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 269 of 1977 ), with the consent of the Minister for the Environment, and after consultation with the council of the urban district of Longford, hereby make the following bye-laws in respect of the area declared by the council of the urban district of Longford to be comprised of the urban district of Longford:

1. These bye-laws may be cited as the Longford Appointed Stands (Street Service Vehicles) Bye-Laws, 1987.

2. In these bye-laws--

"street" means a public road;

reference to the head of the appointed stand shall be construed as referring to that end of an appointed stand from which the limits of an appointed stand are reckoned in column (3) of the Schedule to these bye-laws;

"Schedule" means the Schedule to these bye-laws.

3. In each street mentioned in column (2) of the Schedule, the part of the street described in column (3) of the Schedule opposite the mention in column (2) of that street shall be in the appointed stand available subject to these bye-laws, for use without limitation as to time or occasion of user.

4. (1) The following provisions apply to a street service vehicle standing for hire at an appointed stand:

(a) the vehicle shall be placed in the appropriate position specified in column (5) of the Schedule;

(b) the whole of the vehicle shall be inside the limits of the stand specified in column (3) of the Schedule;

(c) the distance from the kerb to the nearest part of the vehicle shall not exceed 18 inches;

(d) where there is no street service vehicle already at the stand the vehicle shall be placed at the head of the stand, and each vehicle subsequently entering the stand shall, subject to bye-law 6 of these bye-laws, be placed as close as practicable to the vehicle at the head of the stand.

(2) A street service vehicle placed at an appointed stand but not complying with paragraph (1) of this bye-law shall be deemed for the purpose of these bye-laws not to be standing for hire at the stand.

5. Whenever the number of street service vehicles standing for hire at an appointed stand is equal to the number mentioned in column (4) of the Schedule opposite the mention of an appointed stand in column (3) of the Schedule, the driver of a street service vehicle not already so standing for hire shall not place that street service vehicle at that appointed stand.

6. Whenever a vacancy occurs at an appointed stand because of the departure from the stand of a street service vehicle, the street service vehicle nearest to the space so vacated shall be moved forward by its driver into that space, and each driver of any other street service vehicle then standing at an appointed stand shall in turn move forward his vehicle into the space nearest to him in the direction of the head of an appointed stand.

7. (1) The following provisions apply in respect of street service vehicles standing for hire at an appointed stand:

(a) a street service vehicle shall not be placed at an appointed stand that it rests wholly or partly on a footway, or that portion of the vehicle projects over the footway so as to interfere with the free movement of pedestrians on the footway;

(b) a person shall not wash, overhaul or execute repairs to such a street service vehicle, except such repairs as are necessary to enable the vehicle to be removed from an appointed stand;

(c) neither the driver of such a street service vehicle nor any other person shall make any unnecessary noise by means of or in relation to the vehicle or the engine or any equipment, fittings or instruments fitted to or carried on the vehicle or any loudspeaker in or on or in any way connected with the vehicle.

(2) The driver of a street service vehicle which is placed at, being brought into or removed from an appointed stand shall comply with all directions given to him by a member of the Garda Síochána in relation to the placing of the vehicle at an appointed stand or the bringing of the vehicle into, or the removal of the vehicle from, an appointed stand.

8. A driver of a street service vehicle shall not stand it for hire in the area comprising the urban district of Longford otherwise than at the appointed stand and in accordance with these bye-laws.

GIVEN under my hand, this 20th day of February, 1987.

LAURENCE WREN,

Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.

The Minister for the Environment consents to the making of the foregoing bye-laws.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment, this 7th day of July, 1987.

PÁDRAIG FLYNN,

Minister for the Environment.

SCHEDULE

PERMANENT APPOINTED STANDS

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These bye-laws--

(1) provide stands for street service vehicles as indicated in the Schedule to these bye-laws;

(2) outline the conditions subject to which street service vehicles may lawfully use the stands, and

(3) prohibit the driver of a street service vehicle from standing the vehicle for hire elsewhere than at the appointed stands in the area comprising the urban district of Longford.