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Section 252: Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic

Rajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009State Rules of Rajasthan · 2009

(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.

Where this provision sits

ActRajasthan Municipalities Act, 2009
Section252
Marginal notePower to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic
JurisdictionState of Rajasthan
StatusIn force as published by the source

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