Police Act 2008 - Kerala Police

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79. Police officer may lay information, etc: Any police officer may
lay any information before a Magistrate, and apply for a summons, warrant, searchwarrant,
or such other legal process as may by law issue against any person
committing an offence or for discovery of an object.
CHAPTER VI
POLICE REGULATIONS
80. Regulation and Management of Traffic:
1. The District Police Chief with due regard for the laws and orders in force as may
have been issued by any competent authority, may issue, subject to modification or
annulment by the Government, orders either general or special, in order to prevent
danger, obstruction and inconvenience to public, for:
a) Regulating traffic of all kinds in public places, and the use of public
places by persons riding, driving, cycling, walking or leading or
accompanying any animal;
b) Regulating the erection of arches, festoons, banners or construction
activity on any street;
c) Regulating the erection of hoardings, signs, representations or displaylighting
on any property which is likely to distract road-users;
d) Regulating the parking of vehicles in public places, and the use of streets
as halting places for vehicles or any animal;
e) Regulating the number and position of lights to be used on nonmotorised
vehicles in streets and the hours between which such lights
should be used;
f) Regulating the times and manner in which vehicles of a particular type or
engaged in a particular task or animals are driven along the streets;
g) Regulating the leading, driving, conducting or conveying of any elephant
or wild or dangerous, animal through or in any street;
h) Regulating the manner and mode of conveying timber, poles, ladders,
iron girders, beams or bars, boilers or other unwieldy articles through the
streets;