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nearest location in default of which the vehicle will be retained.
Chapter 6. BRAKING
Article 74:
1. For the sake of provisions of this chapter:
a) the term " axle wheels" means the symmetrical wheels at the median longitudinal plane of the
vehicle, even when they are not placed on the same axle, a tandem axle being counted for two
axles.
b) the term " in-service braking" designates the device normally used for slowing down or
stopping the vehicle.
c) the term " parking brakes" designates the device used for maintaining immobile the vehicle,
in the absence of the driver, or in the case of a traller, when it is uncoupled;
d) the term "emergency braking designates the device used- for slowing down or stopping the
vehicle in the event of the, in-service braking fallure;
e) the term " traller " is only applicable to trallers meant for being coupled to an auto-mobile
vehicle.
2. Every vehicle or line of vehicles must be provided with a braking equipment sufficiently
efficient to control movements, to stop it in a sure and quick manner and to prevent the spinning
of the wheel or the wheels stopped, whatever be the loading conditions and the sharpness of the
up or down slope.
3. Automobile vehicles braking system:
a) Every automobile vehicle must be provided with a braking system which can easily be
handled by the driver without hindering the driving of the vehicle and made of¬
10 in-service braking allowing to slow down the vehicle and to stop it in a sure, quick and
efficient manner, in whatever conditions of loading and sharpness of the up or down slope of
the way on which it is moving;
2° a parking brake allowing to maintain the vehicle, whatever be the conditions of its loading on
an up or down 16 % slope, the braking active surfaces being maintained in a tightening position
by means of a device with purely mechanical action, even in the absence of the driver;
3° an emergency braking to slow down or to stop the vehicle, whatever be the conditions of its.
loading, within a reasonable distance, even in the event of in-service braking fallure.
b) The braking devices can so share parts that two commands at least remain independent one
from the other.
c) The in-service braking must command all the vehicle wheels. However, on vehicles having
more than two axles, the wheels of one axle may be independent from the braking system.
d). The in-service braking and the parking brakes have to command one wheel at least on each
side of the median longitudinal plane of the vehicle.
e) The in-service braking and the parking brakes have to work on braked surfaces linked to
wheels in a permanent way by means of sufficiently strong parts.
f) No braked surface can be uncoupled from wheels except:
1 ° When uncoupling is only temporary, especially during change of gears;
2° Where for the parking brakes, uncoupling is not possible without the action of the driver;