FRANCISTOWN TOWN COUNCIL (TRAFFIC) BYE-LAWS
(under regulations 34 and 35)
(2nd December, 1966)
ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS
BYE-LAW
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Offences and penalties
Schedule
L.N. 101, 1966.
These Bye-laws may be cited as the Francistown Town Council (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Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.
In These Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires
“a street in which the making of a U-turn is prohibited” means a street in which the council has erected signs indicating that the making of a U-turn in the street is prohibited;
“council” means the Francistown Town Council;
“council area” means the area for which the council has been established and in which the council has erected signs indicating the speed limit;
“driver” means driver or rider of a vehicle;
“non-parking area” means an area in which the council has erected signs indicating it is a non-parking area or that parking is prohibited except within the spaces indicated by painted lines;
“omnibus” means a vehicle designed solely or principally for the carriage of persons exceeding seven in number;
“one-way street” means any street or avenue which intersects any other street or avenue at the intersection of which the council has erected a sign indicating that it is a one-way street;
“sign” means a sign made in conformity with the terms of the Convention of Road Traffic (Geneva, 1949);
“park” means to keep a vehicle, whether occupied or not, stationary for a period of time greater than is necessary for the action of loading or unloading of persons or goods; and parking shall be construed accordingly;
“vehicle” includes any engine, wagon, dray, cart, carriage, bicycle or other means of carrying persons or goods by land having two or more wheels, whether driven or propelled by human, animal, steam, electric or other power, but shall not include any baby carriage or perambulator;
“stop street” means any street or avenue at the intersection of which the council has erected a sign indicating that it is a stop street.
Any driver who
(a) parks a vehicle or an omnibus in a non-parking area in Haskins Street contrary to the provisions of the Schedule;
(b) makes a U-turn in a street in which the making of a U-turn is prohibited and which is specified in the Schedule;
(c) drives a vehicle within the council area in excess of a speed limit of 60 kilometres per hour;
(d) enters the intersection of a stop street without first stopping at the line painted thereat to ensure that the street he is about to enter is clear;
(e) enters or drives along a one-way street in the direction in which such entry or driving is prohibited;
(f) rides a bicycle not fitted with a red rear reflector,
shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not exceeding P20.
SCHEDULE
1. The parallel parking of vehicles shall not be permitted in the east side of Haskins Street except within the spaces indicated by painted lines, 1,22 metres from the southern corner of the intersection of Selous Avenue and Haskins Street and continuing to the northern corner of the intersection of Tainton Avenue and Haskins Street.
2. The parking of vehicles shall not be permitted on the east side of Haskins Street between the north-east corner of Stand 535 and the northern corner of the intersection of Selous Avenue and Haskins Street.
3. The diagonal parking of vehicles shall not be permitted in Haskins Street except on the west side thereof.
4. The parking of omnibuses shall not be permitted in Haskins Street except within the area indicated by the painted lines on the west side opposite Lobengula Avenue and extending in a southerly direction.
5. Street in which the making of a U-turn is prohibited
Haskins Street.