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purposes if the observance of these provisions would be likely to hinder the use of such vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.

(2) The provisions of these Regulations shall be in addition to any of the provisions of the regulations made under the Road Traffic Act which are applicable to the district of Fresh Creek, Andros.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND SPEED LIMIT (ABACO) REGULATIONS

(SECTION 43(2)) [Commencement 8th June, 1963]

1. These Regulation may be cited as the Road Traffic and Speed Limit (Abaco) Regulations.

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“Controller” means the Commissioner for the Dis- trict of Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, or the Commissioner for the District of Marsh Har- bour, Abaco, or the Commissioner for the District of Sandy Point, Abaco;

“District of Green Turtle Cay” means the district of Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, as determined by the Minister under the provisions of the Local Government Act;

“District of Marsh Harbour” means the District of Marsh Harbour, Abaco, as determined by the Minister under the provisions of the Local Government Act;

“District of Sandy Point” means the District of Sandy Point, Abaco, as determined by the Minister under the provisions of the Local Government Act:

“public place” includes any square, open place, wharf, pier, jetty, building or other place to which the public have access;

G.N. 142/1963 S.I. 79/1967 S.I. 24/1968 S.I. 2/1970 5 of 1987

Short title.

Interpretation.

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“street” includes any road, street, highway, sidewalk, footpath, alley, lane or thoroughfare;

“vehicle” includes any motor car, carriage, cart, dray, wagon, tricycle, bicycle or other vehicle of two or more wheels, but does not include a baby carriage or perambulator.

3. The provisions of these Regulations shall apply to the Districts of Green Turtle Cay, Marsh Harbour and Sandy Point, Abaco, and shall be in addition to any of the provisions of the regulations made under the Road Traffic Act which are applicable to the said districts.

4. (1) The following streets in the settlement of Marsh Harbour shall be deemed major streets with rights of way thereon —

(a) Harbour Road; (b) Queen Elizabeth Road; (c) Airport Road; (d) Nathan Key Road; (e) Abaco Highway. (2) The following streets in the settlements of

Dundas Town and Murphy Town shall be deemed major streets with rights of way thereon —

(a) East Side road; (b) South Side Road; (c) Prince Philip Road. (3) The following streets in the settlement of

Cooper’s Town shall be deemed major streets with rights of way thereon —

(a) Front Street; (b) Back Street. (4) Main Street in the settlement of Sandy Point,

shall be deemed a major street with the right of way thereon.

(5) All other streets shall be deemed minor streets. 5. (1) Except as specified in these Regulations, a

vehicle may be parked in any public place on the Island of Abaco.

(2) No vehicle shall be parked — (a) on any sidewalk, footpath or pathway;

Application.

Major and minor streets.

Parking.

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(b) on any street in such a way as to obstruct the access of any other vehicle to any private driveway, private garage, or yard abutting to such street;

(c) on any bend of a street, or in such a position as to be likely to be a nuisance or danger or obstruction to any other vehicles;

(d) within fifteen feet of a corner, provided that where a line is marked on a roadway designating a public parking place, a vehicle may park as near the adjacent corner as is indicated by such line;

(e) alongside any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge of a curb or street;

(f) on any main roads connecting the various settlements in Abaco, from half-hour after sunset until half-hour before sunrise, except in a case of emergency, when a vehicle may be parked on the said roads with its parking lights or other warning lights displayed;

(g) on any road in any settlement from half-hour after sunset until half-hour before sunrise except when parking lights or other warning lights are displayed, or when a vehicle is parked forty feet or less from a lighted lamp-post.

(3) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any road or public place, any unauthorised sign or marking which purports to be, or is, an imitation of, or resembles an official sign or marking, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or parking of vehicles, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official sign or marking, and the Controller is empowered to remove or cause to be removed any such sign or marking.

(4) The Controller is hereby empowered to prescribe in any area where parking is permitted that such parking shall be at an angle with or parallel to the street.

(5) Medical practitioners shall, in cases of emergency only, be exempt from all parking restrictions.

(6) Except when necessary in obedience to traffic regulations or traffic signs or signals, the driver of a vehicle shall not stop, stand or park such vehicle in a street or public place other than headed in the direction of traffic

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with all wheels of the proper side of the vehicle within eighteen inches of the curb or edge of the street, except upon streets which have been marked or signed for angle parking and then the vehicle shall be parked at the angle to the curb indicated by such mark with the front wheel on the proper side within eighteen inches of the curb or edge of the street.

(7) Without prejudice to the other provisions of these Regulations all parking shall be carried out in such a way as any police officer may direct.

(8) Where lines are marked on the street or public place indicating in what manner parking is allowed, vehicles shall park accordingly.

6. Vehicles shall not be driven eastwards, in the settlement of Marsh Harbour, on Harbour Road from its intersection with Queen Elizabeth Road on the east to its intersection with Queen Elizabeth Road on the west.

7. Whosoever commits an offence against any of the foregoing Regulations shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding eighty dollars.

8. (1) Save as hereinafter specified the speed limit for motor vehicles throughout the Districts of Green Turtle Cay, Marsh Harbour and Sandy Point, Abaco, shall be forty-five miles per hour for motor vehicles other than omnibuses having a seating capacity for more than twenty passengers, motor trucks, tractors and trailers for which the speed limit shall be thirty miles per hour when loaded and forty miles per hour when not loaded.

(2) The speed limit for all motor vehicles shall be twenty miles per hour within the limits of the settlements in the said districts or along such lengths or parts of any road where it is so indicated by traffic signs.

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this regulation —

(a) the speed limit for all motor vehicles within the limits of the settlement of Hope Town in the District of Marsh Harbour shall be fifteen miles per hour:

Provided that the speed limit on Queen’s Highway, from its junction with School Lane to its southern extremity, shall be thirty miles per hour; and

One way streets.

Penalty.

5 of 1987, s. 2

Speed Limit.S.I. 24/1968

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(b) the speed limit for all motor vehicles within the settlement of Man-O-War Cay in the District of Marsh Harbour shall be ten miles per hour.

9. No motor vehicle shall be allowed north of the Methodist Church in any part of the settlement of Hope Town in the District of Marsh Harbour.

10. The provisions of regulation 8 of these Regulations shall not apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes if the observance of these provisions would be likely to hinder the use of such vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion.

TAXI-CAB LICENCES PROCEDURE REGULATIONS

(SECTION 67) [Commencement 20th November, 1969]

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Taxi-cab Licences Procedure Regulations, and shall have effect in every part of the Bahama Islands.

2. In these Regulations — “the Act” means the Road Traffic Act; “licence” means an original taxi-cab licence under

subsection (1) of section 66 of the Act; “regulation” means one of these Regulations; “term” means a term for the granting of licences as

specified in regulation 3. 3. (1) There shall in each year be at least two terms

for the granting of licences, and such terms shall consist respectively of such date or dates in the months of May and November as the Controller shall from time to time determine.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Controller may designate such other term for the granting of licences as he considers necessary.

Places in which motor vehicles are not allowed.S.I. 2/1970

Use of vehicles in emergency.S.I. 2/1970

S.I. 57/1969 S.I. 91/1992

Citation.

Interpretation.

Licensing terms.S.I. 2/1992