Traffic Law

Type

Decree-Law

Number

140

Date of the text

12/06/1959

Official Gazette

published in 1959

Status today

Repealed as of 27/08/2026

Articles

304

What it provides

This law regulates the use of public roads open to traffic, defines terms such as roadway, vehicles, motorcycles, cars, stopping and parking, and requires a driver for every vehicle, draft or pack animal, and herd of livestock.

What has changed this text

• Amended by Law/1959 of 14/12/1959, articles 107
• Amended by Law enacted by Decree No. 17238/1964 of 21/08/1964, articles 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 14, 16, 125
• Amended by Law enacted by Decree No. 13667/1963 of 23/08/1963, articles 283
• Partly repealed by Law No. 76/1967 of 26/12/1967
• Repealed by Law No. 76/1967 of 26/12/1967

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1959. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.