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Parking or waiting at unauthorized places

(Cup. 220, mub, leg.)

Parking or waiting in parking placeS,

(Can, 220, sub. lex)

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7. (1) No person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any vehicle to wait, in any place on a road or length of road on which there is a parking place and a system of street lighting furnished by means of lamps not more than two hundred yards apart other than in such parking place:

Provided that if in any proceedings for a contravention of this subsection it is proved to the satisfaction of the magistrate that on a road there is a system of street lighting, the system of street lighting shall be presumed to be furnished by means of lamps not more than two hundred yards apart unless the contrary is proved.

(2) No person sball park any motor vehicle, or cause of permit any motor vehicle to wait. in any place which is designated under regulation 5 of the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regulations for the exclusive use of vehicles used for any particular purpose including fire services vehicles, vehicles used solely for the conveyance of public mail, vehicles used solely by the armed forces of the Crown or ambulances, unless the motor vehicle is of the kind for which such place is designated.

8. (1) No person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, in any parking place in contravention of any sign or signal lawfully erected at or near such parking place for the direction of vehicles in the parking place or for the designation of the type or class of vehicle which may be parked in the parking place.

(2) No person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, in a parking place in such a manner that the motor vehicle unnecessarily projects over any line which divides the space in which the vehicle is parked or waiting from any other space.

(3) No person shall without reasonable cause park any taxi. or cause or permit any taxi to wait, in any place other than a place set aside us a place in which taxis may be parked or may wait.

(4) No person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, in any parking place the opera- tion of which is suspended under paragraph (1) of regulation 4 of the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regulations.

9. (1) Where any sign in accordance with diagram 3. 4. 5. 6, 7 or 9 in the First Schedule to the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regulations is erected in a road, no person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, on the side of the road on which the sign is erected, during such days and hours as are indicated in the sign or, if none are prescribed, at any time:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply if the person in charge of the motor vehicle is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Where a sign in accordance with diagram 8 in the First Schedule to the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regulations is erected in a road, no person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, on that road-

(a) except on the side of the road on which such sign indicates that waiting is permitted and in any case for not longer than such time as is indicated in the sign; or (b) if a period of less than forty minutes has elapsed since the termination of the last period of waiting, if any, of the motor vehicle on the road or part of a road the use of which is sa restricted.

10. (1) Any person who parks a motor vehicle, or causes or permits a motor vehicle to wait, in a parking place in respect of which there is a parking meter shall as soon as possible after the motor vehicle is driven into the parking place insert or cause to be inserted in the parking meter a coin of a denomination shown on the parking meter (hereinafter referred to as en appropriate coin) and shall comply with such directions as are exhibited on the parking meter.

(2) The insertion of the appropriate coin in a parking meter shall be payment for the use of the parking place for the motor vehicle then in it for the period. from the time of such insertion, shown on the parking meter:

Provided that nothing in this Ordinance shall entitle any person to park any motor vehicle, or to cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, in a parking place in respect of which there is a parking meter whilst the designation of such parking place is temporarily suspended by the Commissioner under regulation 4 of the Road Traffic (Parking and Waiting) Regulations.

11. (1) No person shall park any motor vehicle, or cause or permit any motor vehicle to wait, in parking place in respect of which there is a parking meter, during the period prescribed in the plate affixed to the parking meter under paragraph (2) of

Parking or waiting al waiting signs. parking and

(CHD, 220, sub, kg)

Parking or waiting at packing melor,

(Cap. 220, sub. Hp)

Parking with- out payment of meter charge.