Bylaw Regulating Heavy Motor Vehicle Traffic on State Highways Pursuant to section 61 (3) of the Transit New Zealand Act 1989, Transit New Zealand hereby makes the following bylaw. B y l a w 1. Title and commencement-This bylaw may be cited as Transit New Zealand Bylaw (Heavy Motor Vehicles on State Highways) 2002/17 and shall come into force 28 days after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette. 2. Interpretation-In this bylaw, "heavy motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle (other than a motorcar that is not used, kept or available for the carriage of passengers for hire or reward) the gross laden weight of which exceeds 4500 kilograms; but does not include a vehicle designed solely or principally for the use of fire brigades in attendance at fires. 3. The driving or taking of any heavy motor vehicle or combination of heavy motor vehicles on to or over the sections of State highway described in the First Schedule to this bylaw while there is another heavy motor vehicle or combination of heavy motor vehicles on that section of State highway is prohibited. 4. No person shall take or permit to be driven or taken, any heavy motor vehicle on: (a) any road, or any part of a road, specified in the Second Schedule to this bylaw; or (b) any road or part of a road specified in the Third Schedule to this bylaw between the hours of 7.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m., unless that vehicle is used for the express purpose of: (i) providing an emergency service on a road, or part of a road, specified in the Second and Third Schedules, or in the immediate vicinity of that road or part of that road; or (ii) the provision or maintenance of a network utility work on or in a road or part of a road, specified in the Second and Third Schedules, or in the immediate vicinity of that road, or part of that road, provided that the provision or maintenance of that network utility is undertaken by a network utility operator as defined in section 166 of the Resource Management Act 1991; or (iii) delivering or collecting people and/or goods to or from a property with frontage to a road or part of a road specified in the Second and Third Schedules to this bylaw. First Schedule 5. The following bridges on State Highway No. 6 (Blenheim-Invercargill): ? The Fox Bridge (Route Position 626/8.26) ? The Cook Bridge (Route Position 639/0.00) ? The Karangarua Bridge (Route Position 659/0.00) Second Schedule 6. That section of State Highway No. 1A in Rodney District, commencing at a point (Reference Station 0) on State Highway No. 1 at the Northern side of the Silverdale Interchange Bridge and extending in a generally northerly direction to a point (Route Position 0/4.25) at the site of the proposed Orewa interchange, including the motorway ramps and connections to and from State Highway No. 1 and Grand Drive; a distance of 4.25 kilometres. 7. The Grand Drive section of State Highway No. 1A in Rodney District, commencing at a point (Route Position 0/4.25) at the site of the proposed Orewa Interchange and extending in a generally easterly direction to a point (Reference Station 6) at Maire Road, including the motorway ramps and connections to and from State Highway No. 1A, Maire Road and Grand Drive; a distance of 1.45 kilometres. Third Schedule 8. That section of State Highway No. 12 (Broadway) in Far North District, commencing at a point at Mangakahia Road and extending in a generally westerly direction to a point at Rankin Street (Route Position 0/10.272 to Route Position 0/11.081); a distance of 809 metres. 9. Revocation-Transit New Zealand Bylaws 1997/4 and 2000/12 are hereby revoked. This bylaw was made by resolution passed at a meeting of Transit New Zealand held in Wellington on the 6th day of June 2002. Dated at Wellington this 6th day of December 2002. Signed on behalf of Transit New Zealand by: J. H. VAN BARNEVELD, National Highway Manager, Transit New Zealand.