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(1) The )3oard of Councillors may, for sufficient reasons,— (a) prohibit vehicular traffic in any public street or any portion thereof so as to prevent danger, construction or inconvenience to the public or to ensure quietness in any locality; (b) prohibit, in respect of all public streets or any particular public street, the transit of any vehicle of such type, form, construction, weight, emission or size, or of any vehicle laden with such heavy or un-wieldly object, as is likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or of any vehicle for public convenience, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for the protection of roadways, number of lighs and assistants, and other general precautions and upon the payment of such charges as may be specified by the Board of Councillors generally or specifically in each case; (c) prohibit, at all times or during any particular hours, entry from or exit to premises of vehiclar traffic from any particular public street carrying such traffic. (2) Notices of prohibition 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, if such prohibition applies generally to all public strees; otherwise such notices may be advertised. Projected iic streets. Pttireets. Power Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kind of traffic. 285 The West Bengal Municipal Act, 1993. [West Ben. Act (Part V—Regulatory Jurisdiction.—Chapter MIL—Streets and public places.—Sections 181-184.) Temporary closure of public street Closure of public street for parking purposes. Sanction of Board of Councillors to projection over streets and drains. Removal of encroach- ments over public streets, etc.