Kilkenny Traffic Bye-Laws, 1941.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

num: 9
paragraphs: —(1) No person shall, by doing any of the following things in a street within the Borough, cause an obstruction on the roadway or on the footway of such street or do, in any such street, anything in such a manner or circumstances as to cause an obstruction of the roadway or the footway of such street, that is to say :—
(a) carry by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard, or notice ;
(b) drive, lead, draw, propel, or otherwise conduct any vehicle or animal having displayed thereon by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard, or notice ;
(c) distribute by way of advertisement any picture, print notice or other document ;
(d) erect or place on the surface of any such street by way of advertisement any picture, print, board, placard or notice.
(2) Whenever a member of the GÃ¡rda SÃ­ochÃ¡na observes any person doing, in any street in the Borough anything mentioned in a sub-paragraph of the foregoing paragraph of this bye-law, such member may, if he is of opinion that the doing of such thing by such person is a contravention of the said foregoing paragraph, require such person to cease from doing such thing.
(3) Every person who is required by a member of the GÃ¡rda SÃ­ochÃ¡na under the next preceding paragraph of this bye-law to cease from doing any particular thing shall forthwith cease from doing such thing and remove and take away every picture, print, board, placard, or notice in relation to which such thing is done.
(a) carry by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice on any footway, or
(b) carry by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice which exceeds four feet in length or three feet in width, or
(c) drive, load, draw, propel, or otherwise conduct any vehicle having thereon, by way of advertisement, any picture, print, board, placard, or notice which exceeds six feet in length or four feet six inches in width or of which the highest point is more than four feet above the level of the axle of the wheel or wheels or the largest of the wheels of such vehicle.
(2) It shall not be lawful to drive, lead, or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) in or along any street in the Borough any number of sheep unless such sheep are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers stated in the second column of the following Table, opposite the mention of the number of such sheep in the first column of the said Table, that is to say :—
(3) It shall not be lawful to drive, lead, or otherwise conduct (except by carriage in a vehicle) in or along any street in the Borough any number of swine unless such swine are in the charge of and accompanied by at least the number of drovers stated in the second column of the following Table, opposite the mention ofthe number of such swine in the first column of the said Table, that is to say :—
(4) In this bye-law the word " drover " means a male person not less than eighteen years of age, and for the purposes of this bye-law a drove of animals consisting partly of cattle and partly of sheep shall be deemed to be a drove of cattle, and, when reckoning for the said purposes the number of cattle in such drove the sheep therein shall be reckoned as cattle.
(a) a herd of cattle which exceeds fifty in number, or
(b) a flock of sheep which exceeds one hundred in number, or
(c) a herd of swine which exceeds fifty in number, or
(d) a drove of animals containing different kinds of animals which exceeds fifty in number.
(2) Whenever any person deposits any goods in a street in the Borough because of fire, flood, accident or any other emergency, such person shall remove such goods or cause such goods to be removed from such street as soon as is practicable.
(3) Whenever any person deposits any goods in a street in the Borough for the purpose of lawfully loading or unloading a vehicle or animal, such person
(a) shall take all reasonable precautions to prevent such deposit causing obstruction or avoidable inconvenience to traffic or pedestrians using such street, and
(b) shall not allow such goods to remain so deposited for longer than is necessary for the purpose of such loading or unloading, as the case may be, and
(c) shall remove such goods from the said street as soon as may be practicable having regard to the exigencies of such loading or unloading, as the case may be.
(2) Where there are two or more entrances to any such building or other place, a separate queue shall be formed in respect of every entrance, at which there are persons waiting admission.
(3) Every queue shall be formed in accordance with such general directions in relation to the formation of queues as shall be given by the Superintendent of the GÃ¡rda SÃ­ochÃ¡na within whose District such queue is formed and in accordance with such particular directions (not inconsistent with such general directions) as may be given by a member of the GÃ¡rda SÃ­ochÃ¡na on duty at the place where such queue is formed, or, where there is no such member, by an official of the building or other place for the admission to which such queue is formed.
(4) Every queue shall consist of either a single line of persons or of two, and not more than two, lines of persons, and shall, where a footway is available for the purpose, be formed on such footway on either the inner or outer side thereof in such a manner as not to occupy the entire width of such footway or wholly to obstruct the passage of pedestrians along such footway.
(5) Every person seeking admission to a building or other place at an entrance in respect of which a queue is formed shall take his place at the rear of such queue unless he is expressly given some other place in such queue by a person in such queue who for that purpose vacates his place in such queue.
(6) Every person in a queue shall move forward in an orderly manner towards the entrance in respect of which such queue is formed as the persons in front of him in such queue gain admission at such entrance or move forward towards such entrance or leave such queue otherwise than for the purpose of giving their places in such queue to other persons.
(7) Whenever a queue is required by this bye-law to be formed in relation to admission to a building or other place, no person shall enter or attempt to enter such building or other place by an entrance in respect of which a queue is formed save by means of such queue or unless or until he has arrived at such entrance by orderly progress in accordance with this bye-law through such queue.
(8) Where, in any building or other place of public amusement or public resort, there is a general entrance to which persons are permitted to pass freely on their way to a particular entrance through which admission is only permitted on payment of money or on presentation or surrender of a ticket or similar article, the word " entrance " in this bye-law means, in relation to such building or other place, any such particular entrance to which such general entrance leads and does not mean or include such general entrance.
Given under my hand this 13th day of August, 1940.
Given under the official seal of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health this 7th day of June, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-one.