Services provided by Transport and Technical Services and specified by statute

Statute

Service

Liquid Waste

Drainage (Jersey) Law 2005

• The provision, management and maintenance of the foul and surface water sewage system (including Drainage Design, Drainage Maintenance, Contract Management and Pumping Stations).
• Treatment and Disposal of the Island's

Liquid Waste.

Sea Defence

Drainage (Jersey) Law 2005

Includes "designated flood defense works" that are for the time being designated as a facility of general significance for the purposes of flood defence, by an Order made under Article 29;

Public Areas

Policing of Beaches (Jersey) Law 1959 Policing of Parks (Jersey) Law 2005 Policing of Roads (Jersey) Law 1959

Control and enforcement of certain activities, together with the Parishes and Police, in Parks, Public Places, on Beaches and Roads.

Highways, Traffic and Transport

Loi Sur La Voirie

The  laws  detailed  below  provide  specific powers to deliver aspects of these services or related services.

Requires the States to be responsible for Main Roads. The Minister for TTS acts for States in executing its responsibility for main roads, this role involves the TTS delivering the following services:

 Provides  common  coordinated  policy  for Main roads, Traffic, Parking, Infrastructure improvements  and  maintenance  and Planning considerations

• Provide  advice  on amendments  to traffic laws and administration
• Advising the States on funding required to meet its responsibilities
• Set  construction  and  safety  standards, inspect, provide, clean and maintain:

Carriageways

Safety treatments (anti-skid etc.)

Footways

Cycleways

Highway surface drainage system

Embankments  and  cuttings  (Incl. design  of  remedial  slope stabilization schemes)

Highway  structures,  bridges, retaining walls and parapets

Landscape  areas,  verges,  hedges and trees

Fences and barriers

Traffic  signs  and  bollards (mandatory,  regulatory  and advisory)

Road markings and studs

Traffic  signals  and  pedestrian crossings

• Provide and set standards for street lighting

• Provide expert witness to Courts
• Monitor accident data, design and construct safety improvement schemes
• Liaise  with  the  Police  and  others  to implement accident reduction programmes
• Collect and monitor traffic data, design and construct  traffic  and  pedestrian improvement schemes
• Negotiate  acquisition  of  land  for improvement schemes
• Property  purchase  searches  for  road improvement lines
• Comment  on  planning  applications  for highway and traffic implications
• Provide  advice  to  States  Departments, developers,  public  and  parishes,  ensure consistency  across  road  network  and compliance with regulations
• Provide advice on the Highway Code
• Set standards for workmanship and safety in  street  works,  including  required

qualifications standards

• Coordinate,  inspect  and  monitor  utility street works

• Provide advice on traffic diversions
• Provide safer routes to school
• Advise on routes for abnormal loads

  Investigate  and  comment  on  suspected

traffic damage to 3rd party property

• Investigate,  comment  on  and  record  3rd party  injury  claims  against  Highway Authority
• Provide winter salting service
• Provide  24hr  emergency  safety  response and clean up service for extreme weather events and road traffic accidents

Customary  Law  (Choses  Publiques)  (Jersey) Law

Administering  the  granting  of  permits  for possession of public land, amending Highways Law.

Entertainments on Public Roads (Jersey) Law

Administering,  coordinating  and  proving permits for events on the highway.

Highways (Jersey) Law

Administrating requests to place things on, in, above and through a Highway, grant licenses, make  regulations  for  road  humps,  required sight  lines,  encroachments,  compulsory purchases etc.

Public  Utilities  Road  Works   (Jersey)  Law, plus the individual Service Company Laws, eg Gas, Water, Electricity and Telecoms

Controlling and coordinating road works and their quality

Roads (Drainage) (Jersey) Law

Enables  surface  water  to  be  drained  to  land adjacent the highways.

Road  Traffic  (Jersey)  Law  including  all  the Parish  Orders,  Public  Parking  Places  Order, Public  Parking  Places  (Charges)  Order, Disabled  Persons  Order,  Disabled  Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) Order, Pedestrian Crossings  Order,  Speed  Limits  Order, Construction and Use Order, Driving Licences Order,  Driving  Instruction  Order,  Highway Code, etc.

Setting  and  administering  the  standards  for vehicles and driver licensing, including testing, Traffic  management  restrictions,  including: One-way  systems,  waiting,  setting  and enforcement of parking regulations, setting of statutory  parking  charges,  setting  and administering  the  provisions  for  parking  for Disabled  Driver  Badgeholders,  speed  limits, signs and markings, traffic control equipment etc.

Extinguishment of Roads (Jersey) Law

The administration of the extinguishment of roads.

Mains Roads Classification Act

Defines which roads the States are responsible for.

Motor Traffic (Jersey) Law

The regulation and inspection of public service vehicles and drivers, bus stops and taxi ranks.

Roads Administration (Jersey) Law

Administrating the acquisition of land adjacent to a road for the purpose of road or visibility improvements.

Motor Vehicle Registration (Jersey) Law

Administration  of  the  registration  of  motor vehicles.

Motor Traffic (Third Party Insurance)(Jersey) Law

Administration of requirements relating to the provision of motoring insurance companies.

Motor  Vehicle  (International  Circulation) (Jersey) Law

Regulating  requirements  for  vehicles  and drivers visiting Jersey and Jersey vehicle and drivers visiting other jurisdictions.