GABORONE CITY COUNCIL (TRAFFIC) (SCHEDULED AREAS) BYE-LAWS
(under regulations 34 and 35)
(25th June, 1971)
ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS
BYE-LAW
1. Citation
2. Interpretation
3. Driving, etc., in scheduled areas prohibited
4. Penalty
S.I. 73, 1971,
S.I. 89, 1971.
These Bye-laws may be cited as the Gaborone City Council (Traffic) (Scheduled Areas) 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Originally made under the Township Act now repealed, these regulations have been continued under s 94(2) of the Local Government Act, 2013.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
“draught animal” includes any horse, donkey or mule, whether used for draught purposes or not;
“vehicle” means any contrivance for carrying persons or goods having two or more wheels but does not include a conveyance designed and used for transporting infants or infirm persons or a porter’s barrow if such conveyance or barrow is propelled or drawn by a human being.
3. Driving, etc., in scheduled areas prohibited
No person shall in any area of Gaborone described in the Schedule drive, ride, move, halt, park or deposit any vehicle, draught animal or beast of burden except in a building or enclosure or on a road or in a place for the parking of vehicles denoted by the provision of parking bays:
Provided that when used for delivering builders’ materials for use in building in any area described in the Schedule vehicles may be driven in such area on ground which is not surfaced with cement or concrete and is not cultivated and may be halted for a period sufficient to enable such materials to be unloaded:
Provided further that nothing in this bye-law shall preclude the wheeling of any bicycle, motor bicycle, tricycle or motor tricycle designed for the carriage of one person.
Any person who contravenes any provision of these Bye-laws shall be guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding P50.
SCHEDULE
The Mall, being the quadrilateral area bounded by Queens Road, Independence Avenue, Botswana Road and Khama Crescent.