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5. While driving passengers for hire or reward, every driver of an omnibus, a tour car, a livery car or a taxi cab —

(a) shall wear shoes, other than sandals, slippers and tennis shoes; and

(b) shall ensure that he or she is always clean and tidy in appearance.

6. Every driver of an omnibus, a tour car, a livery car or a taxi cab driver who fails without reasonable cause to comply with the prescribed standard of appearance and dress commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND SPEED LIMIT (ELEUTHERA) REGULATIONS

(SECTION 43(2)) [Commencement 16th February, 1963]

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

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

“Controller’” means the Commissioner for the Dis- trict of Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, or the Commissioner for the District of Rock Sound, Eleuthera, or the Commissioner for the Harbour Island District;

“District of Governor’s Harbour” means the District of Governor’s Harbour as determined by the Minister under the provisions of the Local Government Act;

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

Footwear and cleanliness.

Fine.

G.N. 41/1963 G.N. 73/1964

Citation.

Interpretation.

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“District of Rock Sound” means the District of Rock Sound 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;

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

“vehicle” includes any motor car, carriage, cart, dray, wagon, tricycle, bicycle, velocipede, 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 Governor’s Harbour, Harbour Island and Rock Sound, Eleuthera, 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. The following streets shall be deemed to be main streets with rights of way thereon —

(a) the main road which runs throughout the Districts of Governor’s Harbour and Rock Sound and partly through the Harbour Island District;

(b) all streets which run east and west in the settlement of Rock Sound;

(c) Bay Street and Lord Street in the settlement of Tarpum Bay;

(d) King Street, Elmore Street and Colebrook Street in the settlement of Savannah Sound;

(e) West Hill Street and King Street in the settlement of Palmetto Point:

(f) Parliament Street and Harbour Street in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour;

(g) Albert Street and Hill Street in the settlement of Alice Town.

All other streets shall be deemed minor streets. 5. No motor traffic shall be allowed on — (a) the Commissioner’s Office Green at Governor’s

Harbour; (b) the parade grounds at Governor’s Harbour.

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Application.

Major and minor streets.

Places in which vehicles not allowed.

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6. (1) Except as otherwise herein specified, a vehicle may be parked in any public place.

(2) No vehicle shall be parked — (a) on any sidewalk, footpath or pathway; (b) on any street in such a way as to obstruct the

access of any other vehicles to any private driveway, private garage, or yard abutting on such street;

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

(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 or curb of a street.

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

(4) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any road or public place, any unauthorized 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.

(5) No vehicle shall — (a) from half-hour after sunset until half-hour before

sunrise park on the Eleuthera Main road, except in a case of emergency when a vehicle may be parked on the said road with its parking lights turned on;

(b) be parked in any of the following places in the settlement of Rock Sound:

Parking.

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(i) William Street Both Sides

(ii) Duke Street Both Sides (iii) Chapel Street Both Sides (iv) Fish Street North Side (v) Prince Street North Side

(vi) King Street (from sign “Rock Sound” northern extremity to George Street) West Side King Street (between George Street and southern boundary of Public Cemetery) East Side

(vii) Water Lane East Side Henry Street (between Duke and Chapel Streets to Commissioner’s Office and Duke Street) East Side Henry Street (between Duke and Chapel Streets)

Both Sides

7. (1) Vehicles shall not be driven northwards on Henry Street in the settlement of Rock Sound.

(2) Vehicles shall not be driven westwards on the following streets in the settlement of Rock Sound —

(a) William Street between King Street and Water Lane;

(b) Chapel Street. (3) Vehicles shall not be driven eastwards on Duke

Street or Henry Street in the settlement of Rock Sound. (4) Vehicles shall not be driven northwards on the

second or middle of the three unnamed roads connecting Pine Street and Haynes Avenue in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour.

(5) Vehicles shall not be driven westwards on Haynes Avenue in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour.

(6) Vehicles shall not be driven eastwards on Pine Street in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour.

(7) Vehicles shall not be driven southwards on the most westerly of the three unnamed roads connecting Pine Street and Haynes Avenue in the settlement of Governor’s Harbour.

Directions in which vehicles not to be driven.

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8. Whoever commits an offence against any of the foregoing regulations shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding eighty dollars.

9. (1) Save as hereinafter specified, the speed limit for motor vehicles throughout the Districts of Governor’s Harbour, Harbour Island and Rock Sound shall be forty- five miles per hour for motor vehicles other than omnibuses having a seating capacity for more than twenty passengers or motor trucks for which the speed limit shall be thirty miles per hour.

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

10. The provisions of regulation 9 of these Regula- tions 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 to which it is being used on that occasion.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND SPEED LIMIT (GRAND BAHAMA) REGULATIONS

(SECTION 43(2)) [Commencement 1st September, 1962]

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

2. (1) Save as hereinafter specified the speed limit for motor vehicles throughout the Island of Grand Bahama shall be forty-five miles per hour for motor vehicles other than omnibuses having a seating capacity for more than twenty passengers or motor trucks for which the speed limit shall be thirty miles per hour.

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

Penalty.

5 of 1987, s. 2

Speed limit.

Use of vehicles in emergency.

G.N. 191/1965 S.I. 64/1967 S.I. 72/1968 S.I. 11/1969

Citation.

Speed limit.