- (1) The Municipality may, by notice, in writing,-
(a) prohibit or regulate, either temporarily or
permanently, vehicular traffic in any public street or
any portion thereof so as to prevent danger,
obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to
ensure quietness in any locality,
(b) prohibit, in respect of a public street or a portion
thereof, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form,
construction, weight, emission, or size, or of any vehicle
laden with such heavy or unwieldy object as is likely to
cause injury to the roadways or any construction
thereon, or of any vehicle on the ground of public
convenience, except under such conditions as to time,
mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for
the protection of roadways, number of lights and
assistants, and other general precautions, and on
payment of such charges, as may be specified by the
Municipality generally or specifically in each case,
(c) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours,
entry of any vehicular traffic from, or exit of such
vehicular traffic into, any premises from any
particular public street carrying such traffic,
(d) temporarily close any street to traffic for repair or
order to carry out any work connected with the
drainage, water supply or lighting or for any of the
purposes of this Act:
Provided that such work shall be completed
and such street re-opened to traffic with all reasonable
speed.
(2) Any notice under sub-section (1) shall, if such notice
applies to any particular public street, be pasted in conspicuous
places at or near both ends of such public street or any portion
thereof to which such notice applies or, if such notice applies
generally to all public streets, be advertised.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1),
the Municipality may declare, by notice in writing, that any
pedestrian pathway, or a portion thereof, shall be used as bicycle
and pedestrian track.
(4) The notice referred to in sub-section (3) shall be pasted in
conspicuous places at or near both ends of such public street or any
portion thereof to which the provisions of sub-section (3) apply
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