GOOD RULE AND GOVERNMENT BYELAW

DROPPING OF WATER, WET SAND, GRAVEL, COAL, COKE AND OTHER MATERIALS ON HIGHWAYS

1962

Byelaw for the Good Rule and Government of the Borough of Shrewsbury, made by the Council of the Borough of Shrewsbury in pursuance of Section 249 of the Local Government Act 1933, at a meeting of the Council held on the 9th April 1962

DROPPING OF WATER, WET SAND, GRAVEL, COAL, COKE AND OTHER MATERIALS ON HIGHWAYS

1. No person shall, so as to injure or be likely to injure a highway or to create or be likely to create a danger or nuisance to persons or traffic using a highway, do any of the following things, that is to say:-

(a) use of cause or permit to be used on a highway a vehicle loaded with wet sand, gravel or other similar substance if, by reason of the wetness of the load and the condition of the vehicle, water drops or leaks from the vehicle.  Provided that a person shall not be convicted of an offence against this sub-paragraph if he proves to the satisfaction of the court that before the vehicle was driven on to a highway all such steps had been taken as were reasonably practicable to prevent water from falling from the vehicle while on a highway.
(b) use or cause or permit to be used on any highway any vehicle for the carriage of sand, gravel, coal, coke or other loose substance unless the condition of the vehicle is such that no part of the sand, gravel, coal, coke or other loose substance so carried will fall to the ground while the vehicle is on a highway.
(c) load a vehicle or cause or permit a vehicle to be loaded with sand, gravel, coal, coke or other loose substance for carriage on a highway except in such a manner as will prevent the fall of the sand, gravel, coal, coke or other loose substance so carried to the ground while the vehicle is on a highway and no person shall drive or permit to be driven upon any highway any such vehicle unless the same is loaded in accordance with this byelaw.

2. In this byelaw the expression "vehicle" includes any agricultural implement or machine.

3. Every person contravening any provision of this byelaw shall be guilty of an offence and shall for every such offence be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5.