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7. The provisions of regulation 6 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.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND SPEED LIMIT (EXUMA) REGULATIONS

(SECTION 43(2)) [Commencement 25th April, 1964]

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

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

“Controller” means the Commissioner for the Island of Exuma;

“motor vehicle” means a vehicle which is wholly or partially propelled by mechanical means and which is designed or adapted for use on the roads;

“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, side- walk, footpath, alley, lane or thoroughfare;

“vehicle” includes any motor vehicle, 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 Island of Exuma 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 Island.

Use of vehicles in emergency.

G.N. 98/1964 5 of 1987 S.I. 67/2000

Citation.

Interpretation.

Application.

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4. (1) Except as specified in these Regulations, a vehicle may be parked in any public place on the Island of Exuma.

(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 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 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 of a curb of a street;

(f) anywhere on that portion of the main road passing in front of the Commissioner’s Office in George Town in the Island of Exuma from .the western corner of the wall surrounding the public library to the western corner of the wall surrounding the compound of the Commissio- ner’s Office in George Town;

(g) on the northern side of the main road leading from Williams Town to Rolleville.

(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.

Parking.

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(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 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 be parked accordingly.

5. Except for the purpose of maintenance no person being the driver or person in charge of a vehicle shall allow the same to be ridden, driven or parked —

(a) within the compound of the Commissioner’s Office Building:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to vehicles employed by the post office to convey mail, vehicles employed by the Ministry of Works for maintenance purposes, vehicles of the Commissioner or the vehicle of any other person who is employed in the public service in an office in the compound of the Commissioner’s Office Building:

Provided further that this paragraph shall not apply to bicycles and tricycles;

(b) on the parade grounds. 6. In the settlement of George Town, Exuma vehicles

shall be driven — (a) eastwards or westwards on L.E. Moss Avenue; (b) westwards on John Marshall Street from the

intersection of Queens Highway and L. E. Moss Avenue.

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

Places in which vehicles are not allowed.

Directions in which vehicles are to be driven.S.I. 67/2000

Penalty.

5 of 1987, s.2.

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8. (1) Save as hereinafter specified the speed limit for motor vehicles throughout the Island of Exuma shall be forty-five miles per hour.

(2) The speed limit on the main road leading to the George Town Airport from the junction at Lord Rolle Corner shall be forty-five miles per hour for all 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.

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

9. The provisions of regulation 7 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.

ROAD TRAFFIC AND SPEED LIMIT (LONG ISLAND) REGULATIONS

(SECTION 43(2)) [Commencement 21st December, 1963]

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

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

“Controller” means the Commissioner for the Island of Long Island;

“motor vehicle” means a vehicle which is wholly or partially propelled by mechanical means and which is designed or adapted for use on the roads;

S.I. 67/2000

Speed limit.

Use of vehicles in emergency.

G.N. 294/1963 5 of 1987

Short title.

Interpretation.