Every vehicle used on a highway shall be so constructed General

and mainteined as to prevent danger or inconvenience to persons Tegarding using that vehicle and other road users. construction : inte - 83. (I) The State Government may make rules regulating the and mainte construction, equipment and maintenance of vehicles used on highways.

1. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, oe rules may be made under this section governing any of the following matters either generally in respect of vehicles or in respect of vehicles of a particular class or description or in particular circumstances, namely §
   • (a) the width, height and length of vehicles,
   • (b) the size, nature and condition of wheels and tyres,
   • (c) brakes,
   • (d) lamps and reflectors, (¢) warning devices,
   • (f) the inspection of vehicles by prescribed authorities,
   • (g) regulating the particulars exhibited on vehicles and the maoner in which particulars shall be exhibited, CHAPTER—XVI CONTROL OF PUBLIC VEHICLES 84. (I) The State Government may make rules for the regulation Power to of the use of public vehicles. make rules;
2. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, rules may be made under this section governing anv of the following matters either generally or in respect of public vehicles of a particular class or description or in particular circumstances, namely :
   • (a) the issue, renewal, modification or cancellation of permits and the transfer of permits from OBe person to another; (b). the issue, remewal or cancellation of driving licences; ’ (c) the issue of duplicate copies in place of permits and driving licences mutilated, defaced, lost or destroyed;
   • (d) the preferring of appeals by persons aggrieved by the refusal of the authority competent to grant or renew a permit or a driving licence. or to transfer a permit or by the cancellation or modification of a permit or the cancellation of a driving licence, and the hearing and conduct of such appeals ;
   • (e) the documents, plates and marks to be carried by public vehicles, the manner in which they are to be carried and the language in which such documents are to be expressed ;
   • (f) the badges and uniforms to be worn by drivers ;
3. (2) the fees to be paid in respect of permits, driving licences, duplicate copies of permits or driving licences, plates, badges, and appeals preferred under this Chapter ;
   • (bh) the production of permits and driving licences te‘ore specified officers for purposes of inspection ;
     • (i) the conduct of persons licensed to act as drivers of public vehicles when acting as such and the conduct of passengers in such vehicles;
   • (j) the limiting of the number of public vehicles or public vehicles of any specified class or description for which permits may be granted in any specified area, or on any specified route or routes §
   • (k) the fixing of maximum or minimum fares or freights §
     • (I) the minimum number of passengers or the maximum quantity of goods that may be carried in a public vehicle;
   • (m) the conditions subject to which passengers’ luggage of goods may be carried on public vehicle ;
   • (n) the construction and fittings of, and the equipment to be carried by, public vehicle, whether generally or in specified areas or on specified routes ;
4. (0) the safe custody and disposal of property left in public vehicles ;
   • (p) the couveyance in public vehicles of corpses or persons suffering from infections or contagious diseases or goods likely to cause discomfort or injury to passengers and the inspection and disinfection of such vehicles, if used K for such purposes;
   • (q) the requirements which shall be complied with in the cons- truction or use of any stand or halting place, including the provisions of adequate equipment and facilities for the convenience of all users thereof, the fees, if any, which may be charged for the use of such facilities, the records which shall be maintained at such stands or places, the staff to be employed thereat and the duties and conduct of such staff, and gewerally for maintaining such stands and place in a serviceable and clean conditions
   • (r) requiring the person in charge of a public vehicle to carry any person tendering the legal or customary fare H
5. (8) the inspection of public vehicles including animals used to drive them ;
   • (t) the records to be maintained and the returns to be furnished by the owners of public vehicles ;
   • (u) the appointment, terms of appoiatment, jurisdiction, con- trol and functions of authorities for the purpose of admi- nistering the provision of this chapter ;
     • (v) any other matter which is to ke or may be prescribed. CHAPTER—XVII OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE APPLICABLE TO PART V ‘General pro- 85. Whoever contravenes and provision of Part V of this act “vision for or of any rule made thereunder shall, if no other penalty is provided for the offence, be punishabie with fine which may extend to ten ‘wader part V. rupees, or, if having been previously convicted of any offence uader this Act he is again convicted of an offence under this part of the