STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2005 No. 90.

THE IBANDA TOWN COUNCIL (STREET AND OTHER DESIGNATED PARKING

AREAS) BYE-LAWS, 2005.

ARRANGEMENT OF BYE-LAWS

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2005 No. 90. The Ibanda Town Council (Street and Other Designated Parking Areas) Bye-

laws, 2005.

(Under section 39 of the Local Governments Act, Cap. 243)

In exercise of the powers conferred upon Ibanda Town Council by section 39 of the Local Governments Act, these Bye-laws are made this 30th day of August, 2005.

1. Title

These Bye-laws may be cited as the Ibanda Town Council (Street and Other Designated Parking Areas) Bye-laws, 2005.

2. Objectives

These Bye-laws are intended to regulate the parking of motor vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles on streets and other designated parking places in Ibanda town with a view to maintaining orderliness and safeguarding pedestrians and all street users; and to raise local revenue for general service delivery in the town council.

3. Application

These Bye-laws apply to the area of jurisdiction of Ibanda Town Council.

4. Interpretation

In these Bye-laws, unless the context otherwise requires—

“agent” means a person duly appointed by the Council;

“Council” means Ibanda Town Council;

“currency point” means the value assigned to currency point in Schedule 1;

“other designated parking place” includes a parking place which does not form part of a road or any other parking as may be designated by the Council from time to time;

“street parking place” means a parking place which forms part of a road;

“vehicle” includes a machine or implement of any kind drawn or propelled along roads, whether by animal, mechanical, electrical or any other motive power.

5. Appointment of agent

The Council may appoint an agent to carry out on its behalf, the functions conferred upon the Council by these Bye-laws.

6. Authorised parking

The parking of vehicles in Ibanda Town shall only be in designated street parking places or other designated parking places.

7. Zoning of parking places

The Council shall, from time to time, demarcate the areas to which these Bye- laws apply.

8. Control of parking places

The control and management of parking places shall be by the Council or its agent.

9. Parking fees

(1) The Council shall fix, and may from time to time vary fees and charges in respect of parking under these Bye-laws.

2. For purposes of subsection (1), the fees are as prescribed in the Second Schedule.
3. The Council or its agent shall issue a parking invoice to a person who parks a vehicle in a street or other designated parking place and that person shall pay the prescribed parking fee.

10. Power of Council to tow or remove vehicle

Where a person parks a vehicle in an area not designated as a parking place, the Council shall tow or remove the vehicle from that place and the owner of the vehicle shall pay to the Council or its authorised agent the expenses incurred in towing or removing the vehicle.

11. Offences and penalties

(1) A person who—

1. parks a vehicle in a place not designated as a parking place;
2. parks a vehicle improperly in a parking place in total disregard of the

manner in which the parking place is marked;

3. defaults or fails to pay any parking fees;
4. operates illegal parking places,

commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding two currency points.

(2) In addition to the penalty provided under this bye-law, any expense incurred by the Council or its agent as a result of the breach of the provisions of these Bye-laws shall be paid by the person convicted and the expenses may be recovered summarily as a civil debt.