Section 207:
Power to prohibit or regulate use of public streets for certain kind of traffic.
(1) The
Chairperson may--
(a) prohibit or regulate vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent
danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure decongestion or smooth flow or
quietness in any locality;
(b) prohibit or regulate in respect of all public streets, or any particular public street, the transit of
any vehicle of such form, construction weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldly objects
as may be likely to cause injury to the road-ways or any construction thereon, 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 upon the payment of
such charges as may be specified by the Chairperson generally or specially in each case; and
(c) prohibit or regulate access to premises from any particular public street carrying high speed
vehicular traffic:
Provided that the Chairperson shall not take action without sanction of the Council in cases under
clauses (a) and (c).
(2) Notices of such prohibition as are imposed under sub-section (1) shall be posted in conspicuous
places at or near both ends of public streets or portions thereof to which they relate, unless such
prohibition applies generally to all public streets.