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Ardee Town Parking Control (On Street) (Amendment) Bye-Laws 2023

Louth County Council

Ardee Town Parking Control (On Street)

(Amendment) Bye-Laws 2023

 

The members of the Ardee Municipal District in exercise of the powers under section 36 of the Roads Traffic Act 1994 and in the exercise of it’s powers under section 131A(1)(a) and paragraph 26 of Schedule 14A (inserted by section 21 (3) of the Local Government Reform Act, 2014) of the Local Government Act 2001 and all other enabling powers hereby makes the following Bye-Laws for the control and regulation of the parking of vehicles in parking places on public roads in the town of Ardee.

 

Part I

Preliminary

 

 

Short Title

1.

These Bye-Laws may be cited as Ardee Town Parking Control (On Street) (Resident’s Parking Discs Amendment) Bye-Laws 2023.

Commencement

2.

These Bye-Laws shall come into operation on the (7th August 2023) 2023

 

 

 

Area of Application

3.

Bye Law 3 of the Ardee Town Parking Control (On Street) Bye-Laws 2014 is replaced with the following:

 

These Bye-Laws apply to the area comprising that part of the Town of Ardee as delineated on Drawing No : ACPR-02

 

 

Part II

Resident’s Parking Discs

 

Application for Resident’s Parking Disc

4.

(1) A person who satisfies the Council that he is a resident of a property or part of a property whose postal address falls within one of the streets in the Town of Ardee wherein there is a Parking Place, and the owner of a Vehicle may on application to the Council and at the Council's absolute discretion obtain a Resident's Parking Disc.

 

 

 

(2) Subject to the provisions of Bye-Law 4 (1) the grounds of eligibility for a Resident's Parking Disc shall be such as may from time to time be determined by the Council at its absolute discretion.

 

 

(3) Any application for a Resident's Parking Disc shall be made to the Council at such location(s) and at such times as the Council may from time to time determine.

 

 

(4) An application for a Resident's Parking Disc shall be made in such form as may from time to time be specified by the Council, and an applicant shall produce such documentary evidence as to entitlement and any other matters considered relevant by the Council as may from time to time be specified by the Council.

 

 (5) The Council's decision as to whether it is satisfied as to the eligibility of any applicant to receive a Resident’s Parking Disc shall be final.

 

Manner of Display of Disc

 

5.

Where a Vehicle is left or parked within  a Time Restricted Parking Zone, the owner shall ensure  that a valid Resident's Parking Disc is displayed at all times in a Relevant Position in the Vehicle to cover the entire period that the Vehicle is left or parked  in that Time Restricted Parking Zone.

Validity of Disc

 

6.

A Resident's  Parking Disc is valid only in respect of

(a) the street or streets in respect of which it is issued, and

(b)  the Vehicle in respect of which it was issued

up to the date of expiry as shown on the Resident's Parking Disc.

 

Compliance

 

7.

The person to whom a Resident's Parking Disc has issued shall abide the terms and conditions stipulated by the Council for the use of the Resident's Parking Disc.

Permission to

Park

8.

The display of a valid Resident's Parking Disc on a Vehicle in accordance with Bye-Law 5, authorities the owner of that Vehicle to Park without limitation as to time in the Time Restricted Parking Zone in respect of which the Resident's Parking Disc was issued.

 

 

Non-Display of

Disc

 

9.

 

If at any time while a Vehicle is left in a Time Restricted Parking Zone a valid Resident’s Parking Disc is not displayed on that Vehicle in the

Resident's Parking Disc is not displayed on that Vehicle in the

 

 

Relevant Position in accordance with Bye-Law 5, it shall be deemed

 

 

that the Time Restricted Parking applies.

 

Interference with Disc

 

10.

 

No person shall interfere or tamper with a Resident's  Parking Disc. Any improper use of a Resident's  Parking  Disc shall render that  disc

 

 

void.

 

Replacement of

 

11.

 

Where the Council is satisfied that a valid Resident's Parking Disc

Disc

 

has been lost, stolen, destroyed, or otherwise becomes illegible the

 

 

Council or its agents will issue a duplicate disc (marked   as  such)

 

 

upon being satisfied  as to the  authenticity of the  Resident's  Parking

 

 

Disc concerned, whereon the original  Resident's  Parking  Disc will

 

 

immediately become invalid.

 

Return of Disc

 

12.

 

A Resident's  Parking Disc shall remain  the property of the Council

 

 

and upon a resident ceasing to reside at the address notified to the

 

 

Council or ceasing to be the  owner  of the Vehicle in respect  of which

 

 

the  Resident's  Parking Disc was issued, the Resident's  Parking Disc

 

 

shall be returned by the resident to the Council.

 

Transfer of Disc

 

13.

 

The Council may accept the transfer of a Resident's  Parking Disc to a

 

 

another Vehicle for the unexpired  period of the Resident's Parking

 

 

Disc following the surrender of the existing Resident's  Parking

 

 

Disc to the Council.