Traffic Police Act 3 of the Minnistry of Interior requires the registration of your vehicle        Importation of cars pre-dating 2004 prohibited        Register your vehicle: registration information here        Know your fine directly by accessing the "fines" link        Large vehicles prohibited from entering city centers        Vehicle movement prohibited withour registration tags        Use of small motor-bikes prohibited        Use of right-handed driver side cars prohibited

Advices and directions for vehicles drivers
* Give the way to the following vehicles( ambulance –extinguisher-police) for facilitate their duties by using the right side of the road or stop if the situation demand that, and through doing this you will contribute in saving people lives.
* You have not used the big sound devices or multi notes that caused noisy for other road users especially inside inhabitant areas or near hospitals and schools.      * Stop your vehicle in particular parks, because the miss parking leads to confuse the traffic movement .Also you have not allowed to stop on sidewalk or across area that specified to walkers or on a bridges or in the middle of the road.           * For emergency or necessity stopping especially in the night driving, you must open the stop signals and warning lights. It should be noted here the important of using phosphorous triangle behind your breaking down vehicle and try drag it away of the road as soon as possible.
Advices for walkers
* You must keep walking on sidewalk and do not inter the road.                *You must keep walking on sidewalk and do not inter the road.             *You must not allow children to play in the main road.                    *You must not allow children to play in the main road.                  *You must not allow children to play in the main road.
*You must not group in the sidewalk in away that hider the movement on sidewalk which cause dangerous accidents and disturb other walkers.
*You must not group in the sidewalk in away that hider the movement on sidewalk which cause dangerous accidents and disturb other walkers.
*You must not carry any thing throughout your walking in away cause accidents.
*You must keep walking in sidewalk and looking attentively to the road movement.
*You must not gather around accident cause further accidents and hinder the traffic movement.
*You must keep crossing from the determine cross-area, and obey the traffic men signals and directions.
*You must turn on firstly right, left to make sure of road emptiness and be ware of opposite direction.
Important wills for the road accidents prevention
Dear driver
*You have to be away of any psychological passivity and keep concentrate, focus toward road only and do not occupy yourself by taking, reading, and thinking or using your cell phone or eating.
* You have to stop driving while you feel tired, nervous or illness.
* Do not drive while you have drug materials or alcoholic.
* Keep driving on the right side of the road and look in mirrors consequently to be aware of rear traffic movement and do not throw any thing outside your vehicle during driving.
* Use the proper light signals that indicate the direction of turning vehicle before suitable distance in order to inform other drivers.
* You must notice before set up back movement or head starting or turning to other side.
* You must not use the highlight or spotlight that cause unclear vision for other road users and lead to dangerous events.
* Keep convenient distance between you and the vehicle in front of you and avoid sudden stop.
* Do not drive in excessive speed, because it represents the main factor for all accidents and you have to follow the determined legal speed according to traffic law. , Therefore, with your avoiding such accidents you will keep yourself apart of sorrowful accidents which lead to human being, and material looses.
Basic Rules of Safety Passing
* The passing must be from the left side except condition of the preceding vehicle that intends to turn from the left side.
* Do not pass the preceding vehicle while it trays to pass other cars in front of it, therefore, you have to wait while this operation end and then you can set up passing safely.
* Passing is possible when the road was almost straight and there isn't any turning curved roads that prevent plain vision.
* You must use signal of passing preceding vehicle at daytimes and using the light signals that indicate direction movement at night.
* Do not passing near traffic lights or near cross-areas.
Driving in Bad Air Conditions
(Rains, fug)
* Do not drive more than 15Km-houre in raining or fuggy days.
* Do not pass vehicles under above conditions.
* Avoid using sudden break while the road was wetted.
* Use your front and rear lights without using highlights plus carefully attention to general road status.
Advices for Riders of Vehicle and Public Bus.
* Do not approach bus or ride or step down while it being moving.
* Do not stand inside the bus, because standing will exposed you to fall and pain.
* Do not bring parts of your body outside bus window, you might be dropped or hit by other vehicles and do not throw any things that affect others outside the bus.
* Do not stand or lean on a bus door handle during bus movement.
* Give help to handicapped, children, and old people inside bus.
* Do not get down from the front door and do not cross in front of the bus in the way that hinders the bus driver vision.
* For the bus drivers, you have to stop in safety places away of turning roads, intersections; and traffic light. You are not allowed to drop the rider in these places especially in highways or randomly stopping.
Wills for Motorcyclist
Dear Driver
* You must wear protective helmet and tide it properly before set up driving; you are also have to wear the convenient uniform that helps you in easy, and safety driving.
* Be ware of overmuch speed and be away of traffic jam.
* Keep driving on the right side of the road and avoid competitive driving to pass other vehicles.
* Be ware of sudden stop, and don’t use hand break at once.
* Be ware of what facing you in the road.
* Provide your motorcycle front screen that protects you from air and dusts.
* Do not touch any close vehicle to you, because this action will head to dangers.
* Do not practice any air sports aerobatics actions that are more dangerous. You have to put in your consideration that motorcycles are mainly found for transporting not amusement purposes in the public roads.

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Resolution issued by council of ministers No.17 for 2005

1. Prohibition for any imported vehicles whose product date less than 2004.

2. Exclude from this prohibition include the vehicles imported for governorate benefit.

3. There is no any registration for those imported vehicle for private sector or mixed sector unless owners, or authorized persons presents registered vehicle in traffic directories which has product data 1989 and under.

4. The owner, or authorized person has the right to get the number of the registered vehicle according to proper assigned contract between two parts with condition include the agreement to transfer the ownership of registered car to the owner of imported car.

5. The owner of the imported car pledge to deliver the used car after keeping its tags to traffic directories in the period not exceed than 30days.

6. The owner of imported car has to bring a proper certificate to deliver the used car to committee formed by traffic directorate for this purposes in order to registration his new one.

7. Coordination will be continued between general directorate of traffic, Baghdad municipality and estate property directory to find convenient land area for deposit used cars.

8. Committee will be formed consist of representatives from ministries of finance, trade, industry mineral, financial inquisition and traffic directory to deal with the used car in accordance to law.

9. This act will be valid upon issuance 1-9-2005.

This act will be continued for one year or more accordance to council of minister resolution.
 

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Act #2 of 2005,

Issued by Traffic Police Directorate of Baghdad, Ministry of Interior Carrying out the Item 1, act #1 of 2005 issued by Ministry of Interior, and pursuant to the Item 1, Chapter 34, Law of Traffic Police #86 of 2004, and trying to provide citizens with the opportunity to register their vehicles, we have decided the following:

1. Owners, or their authorized persons, of recently imported unregistered vehicles whose production date is 1990 and whose entry was before Dec. 31, 2003, are requested to drop by the directorates of traffic police in Baghdad and the other governorates within 90 days starting from the date of issuance.

2. Owners, or their authorized persons, of recently imported unregistered vehicles whose production date is ranging between 1991 and 1999 and whose entry began in Jan. 1st, 2004 and ended in Dec. 31, 2004, are requested to drop by the directorates of traffic police in Baghdad and the other governorates within 30 days starting from June 5, 2005.

3. A location in Al-Dhilal Square of Al-Risafa sector was assigned for vehicles registration as specified in points 1 and 2. Traffic Police Directorates of the governorates will allocate certain locations for registering the vehicles.

4. locations of Al-Shaab and Al-Ghazaliya will be allocated for inspection, registration and installation of temporary inspection tags for vehicles, of models newer than 2000, included in the order of Ministers' Council #9 on Oct. 20, 2004.  

5. Violators will be penalized according to the items of Chapter 12, Law of Traffic Police # 86 of 2004, and vehicles will be confiscated unless registered within the periods stated in points 1 and 2. Otherwise, vehicles will be referred to the General Commission of Tasks.  

6. This act will be valid upon issuance and publishing.

                       Signed
                                 General Jaafar Tu'ma Kadhum
                                    Director General of Baghdad Traffic Police

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