Tivat, Montenegro · Limited traffic zone
Official name Odluka o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat
In force in Tivat right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:05 · Europe/Podgorica
The 06:00 to 09:00 window is deliberately not encoded. It is a condition attached to an individual approval for a named goods vehicle supplying premises in a traffic-calmed zone, not a time at which anything opens, and encoding it would tell a driver the pedestrian streets are theirs before nine in the morning when they are not.
This encoding says when the restriction is in force, not where you are. We do not hold the pedestrian zones as geometry — the decision draws them with three street and promenade names — so the warning is at city level and a driver still has to read the names in the area field or look for the signs.
The goods-vehicle rule in article 5 as amended is not a timetable at all and is not encoded: it is a mass ceiling of 5 tonnes across the municipality's streets, with a permit route up to 12 tonnes for construction work. A lorry in Tivat can be inside that rule and inside a pedestrian zone at once, and neither one excuses the other.
No weekday, weekend or public-holiday rule is encoded, because the decision names none. Inventing an exemption would be worse than having none, and no Montenegrin holiday calendar is held in this corpus for this purpose.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Tivat regulates its traffic in one municipal decision, and that decision answers two different drivers. If you are in a car, the part that concerns you is short: three places are pedestrian zones — Maršala Tita street, the Šetalište Iva Vizina promenade and Obala Filipa Miloševića in Donja Lastva — and the decision designates them without attaching an hour, a charge or an emission class to the designation.
There is no Euro standard anywhere in this scheme, no daily ticket, and no window in which the pedestrian zones open to ordinary traffic. If you are in a goods vehicle, the decision is much longer and it applies across the whole municipality rather than in a marked-off centre.
The rule as it now stands, after the 2018 amendment replaced article 5 in full, is that goods vehicles may use the streets of Tivat — pedestrian zones and traffic-calmed zones excepted — up to 5 tonnes maximum permitted gross mass, and only for supplying shops and hospitality premises or for building, reconstructing, adapting and fitting out premises.
Above 5 tonnes there is no general right of access at all: the traffic secretariat may permit a goods vehicle up to a ceiling of 12 tonnes, and only for construction work, on a written application with the building permit, the works contract, the vehicle registration document, a sketch of the route from the Adriatic highway to the destination, and proof that two local administrative fees have been paid.
Supply into a traffic-calmed zone is narrower again and is the one place in the decision where a clock appears: up to 3.5 tonnes, between 06:00 and 09:00, at walking pace and no faster than 10 km/h, on the secretariat's approval. Into a pedestrian zone there is no delivery window at all — the decision says supply is made from the side streets instead.
Three categories move without asking anyone: emergency intervention on infrastructure, utility vehicles doing their work, and vehicles serving cultural events, which the amended article 5 lets onto city streets without the secretariat's approval. The fines in the decision are worth reading for what they do not cover.
They attach to breaching the goods-vehicle rule, the supply rule and the abandoned-vehicle rule — not to a car being driven into a pedestrian zone, which is a matter for Montenegro's national road safety act and is not priced here.
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, 'Odluka o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat', adopted at the VII session on 29 October 2016, reference 0304-340-309, signed by the assembly president Ivan Novosel. The base decision as the municipality itself publishes it, from its own document store: twenty-three articles in fourteen parts, made under article 9(1) of the Zakon o bezbjednosti saobraćaja na putevima and article 31 of the Statute of Tivat. It is a Word 97 binary, which is why nothing in this corpus could read it before cycle 120
There is no daily charge in this scheme, and the absence is the publisher's design rather than a gap in our reading. Nothing in the decision or in its two amendments sells a day's access to anything: the pedestrian zones are not charged for because they are not open to vehicles at any price, and a goods vehicle over 5 tonnes does not buy a day, it applies for a decision.
What the municipality does charge is the paperwork, and those amounts are published in full on the secretariat's own application form, so they are stated here rather than left to be guessed at: 2.00 € for lodging the request, under tariff number 1 of the Odluka o lokalnim administrativnim taksama ('Sl. list CG – opštinski propisi' br.
44/22), and 3.00 € for the rješenje itself, per vehicle, under tariff number 35 of the same decision. Both are paid to the municipality's account 510-9146777-39. Two vehicles means two 3.00 € fees and one 2.00 € fee.
Those are administrative fees for a permit and they are not a charge for entering a zone, which is why they are recorded here as a note and not as the value — writing 3.00 € into a daily_charge would tell a driver that Tivat prices its pedestrian streets at three euros a day, which it does not. Not estimated: every figure above is read from the form the issuing secretariat publishes.
The honest answer for the pedestrian zones is: always. The decision designates Maršala Tita, Šetalište Iva Vizina and Obala Filipa Miloševića as pedestrian zones and attaches no hour to the designation — there is no evening at which they reopen and no season in which they lapse. The one clock in the whole decision belongs to a different rule and must not be read as the pedestrian zones' opening time.
In the traffic-calmed zones, article 19 lets the traffic authority approve a goods vehicle of up to 3.5 tonnes maximum permitted mass to supply shops, hospitality premises and building works between 06:00 and 09:00, at the pace of a walking pedestrian and at most 10 km/h.
That window is a condition written into an individual approval for a named vehicle, not a period in which the calmed zones are generally open to lorries, and it is attached to the calmed zones rather than to the pedestrian ones: into a pedestrian zone, article 19's second paragraph says supply is made from the side streets, and gives no window at all.
The goods-vehicle rule that applies across the rest of Tivat carries no hours any more, and that is a change rather than an omission — the original article 5 confined the 5-tonne supply traffic in the DUP 'Tivat-Centar' area to 06:00 to 09:00, and the 2018 amendment replaced the whole article with a version that keeps the mass ceilings, drops the geographical confinement and drops the window with it.
Nothing in the decision distinguishes a weekday from a weekend and nothing in it names a public holiday; Montenegro has public holidays and this instrument does not mention one.
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, the base decision's article 19, 'Uslovi kretanja vozila za snabdijevanje u zonama smirenog saobraćaja i pješačkim zonama'. The only article in the instrument that states a time of day, and the article the later amendments leave untouched
Three places, named rather than drawn, and all of them in or beside the town centre. Article 15 designates as pedestrian zones: ul. Maršala Tita, the Šetalište Iva Vizina promenade, and Obala Filipa Miloševića in Donja Lastva, the settlement immediately north-west along the bay.
The decision says these are determined 'by the Project for the guidance and regulation of traffic flows and by this decision', so the street names are the operative list and the project drawing is the detail behind them.
Read against what else the decision draws, that list is deliberately short: article 4, as replaced in 2021, names fourteen one-way streets, article 16 names five school zones on named road sections, and article 6 names the exact routes coach traffic must take in and out of the town — so this is an authority that lists streets readily, and it lists only three as pedestrian.
The second geography in the decision is not a list at all, and a driver should know that it exists.
Article 13 defines a 'zona smirenog saobraćaja', a traffic-calmed zone, as a part of a road, street or settlement whose carriageway is shared by pedestrians and vehicles, and it hands the designating of them to the local traffic authority acting together with the spatial-planning authority — so the calmed zones are made by administrative act and the decision does not enumerate them.
We therefore do not publish where they are: the 06:00 to 09:00 supply window and the 3.5-tonne ceiling apply in places this instrument does not name, and naming them from anywhere else would be our guess.
The third geography is the widest and the simplest: the goods-vehicle rule in article 5 as amended applies to the streets of the municipality of Tivat as a whole, with the pedestrian zones and the calmed zones carved out of it.
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, the base decision's part X, article 15, which designates the pedestrian zones by name, and article 13, which defines the traffic-calmed zone and leaves its designation to an administrative act
There is no emission standard in this scheme for a petrol vehicle, because there is no emission standard in it at all, and that is measured rather than assumed.
The whole chain was read — the 2016 base decision and both amendments — and the instrument reads three things off a vehicle, none of them its exhaust: whether it is a pedestrian or a vehicle, whether it is a goods vehicle, and, if it is, what its maximum permitted gross mass is.
Euro class, year of first registration, fuel type and any emissions test appear nowhere in the twenty-three articles, nowhere in the penalty articles, and nowhere on the application form the traffic secretariat publishes for the permit. A cleaner vehicle is neither admitted nor priced differently from a dirtier one of the same weight doing the same job. A petrol car is barred from Maršala Tita for being a car.
Not estimated: this is what the published text does not contain.
Nor a diesel standard, and for the same measured reason: the triggers are the street and the scales, not the fuel. Nothing in the decision, in the 2018 amendment that replaced article 5, in the 2021 amendment that replaced article 4, or in the secretariat's published application separates diesel from petrol, sets a Euro floor, or asks for a smoke-opacity or emissions result.
What the decision does separate are purposes — supplying shops and hospitality premises, building and fitting out premises, emergency intervention on infrastructure, utility work, cultural events — and each of those is a job, not an engine. Not estimated.
The decision does carry fines, and they are published here in full rather than compressed into one number, because the number would be wrong for almost everybody.
Article 22 punishes a legal person that acts contrary to article 5(1) — the goods-vehicle rule — or contrary to article 19 — the supply rule for calmed and pedestrian zones — or that fails to remove a derelict or abandoned vehicle, with a fine of 150.00 € to 1,000.00 €; for the same offence a natural person and a responsible person within the legal person are fined 20.00 € to 500.00 €, and an entrepreneur 50.00 € to 500.00 €.
Article 21 is a heavier band, 150.00 € to 5,000.00 € for a legal person, but it reaches only the undertakings that install and maintain signage, pedestrian guard rails and traffic-calming devices, so no driver is ever inside it. Three amounts for one offence, each depending on who the offender is, is not something a single Money value can hold, and picking one would misprice the other two.
What is deliberately NOT claimed here is a fine for driving a car into a pedestrian zone. Article 22's list does not contain that act at all: the decision's own penalties reach the goods-vehicle rules, the supply rules and abandoned vehicles.
The sanction for disobeying a traffic sign in Montenegro sits in the national Zakon o bezbjednosti saobraćaja na putevima, the act under whose article 9(1) this decision is made, and we have not read that act's penalty table from an official source, so no amount for the ordinary case is supplied from memory or from a secondary site.
Not estimated: for the ordinary driver this decision does not state a fine, and for everyone it does state one the figure depends on who you are. Supervision is stated and is worth carrying instead: administrative supervision of this decision is exercised by the local traffic authority and inspection supervision by its inspection body.
Opština Tivat — Sekretarijat za saobraćaj i stambeno-komunalne djelatnosti, the application form it publishes for the over-5-tonne permit. The document list, both administrative fees with their tariff numbers and the municipal account, the route sketch, and the period-and-hours fields are read from the form itself rather than from the decision, which requires 'proof of payment of the local administrative fee' without naming an amount
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, 'Odluka o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat', adopted at the VII session on 29 October 2016, reference 0304-340-309. Published in 'Službeni list Crne Gore - opštinski propisi' br. 045/16. The base text: twenty-three articles covering priority roads, one-way streets, the goods-vehicle rule, coach routes, signage, speed, pedestrian and cycle space, parking, the traffic-calmed zone, guard rails, the pedestrian zones and school zones, abandoned vehicles, supply into calmed and pedestrian zones, supervision and penalties. Watched from cycle 120: the title, the pedestrian-zone designation in article 15, the 3.5-tonne and 06:00-09:00 supply condition in article 19, and the sentence that routes pedestrian-zone deliveries to the side streets. A Word 97 binary, readable since cycle 120 gave the corpus a reader for the format
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, 'Odluka o izmjeni Odluke o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat', adopted at the XXV session on 16 November 2018, reference 0304-340-355. Published in 'Službeni list Crne Gore - opštinski propisi' br. 044/18. The first amendment, and the one that changed what this record publishes most: it replaces article 5 in full. The original confined 5-tonne supply traffic to the streets of the DUP 'Tivat-Centar' area between 06:00 and 09:00 and otherwise held goods vehicles to the Adriatic highway; the replacement opens the municipality's streets to goods vehicles up to 5 tonnes for supply and construction with the pedestrian and calmed zones excepted, adds the permit route to a 12-tonne ceiling for construction work with its document list, and keeps the free passage of emergency, utility and cultural-event vehicles. Watched from cycle 120: the amendment's title, the citation of the base decision it edits, the 5-tonne sentence and the 12-tonne ceiling
Opština Tivat — Skupština opštine Tivat, 'Odluka o izmjeni Odluke o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji opštine Tivat', adopted on 30 June 2021, reference 03-040/21-172, signed by the assembly president dr Andrija Petković. The second and newest amendment, and it is held for what it does NOT touch as much as for what it does: it replaces article 4(1), the one-way street list, adding Beogradska, Podgorička and Zagrebačka in Seljanovo — which the municipality's own report of that session says was done to protect the municipal roads from goods-vehicle traffic — and it makes two small edits to article 5, inserting the word 'ukupne' so the ceilings read as maximum permitted GROSS mass and adding point 3a, the route sketch, to the permit's document list. It leaves article 15 and article 19 exactly as they were, so the pedestrian zones and the supply window this record publishes are the 2016 text still in force. Its preamble prints the chain it edits, 045/16 and 044/18, which is how this record's chain checks itself. Served as OOXML rather than Word 97, from the municipality's newer bucket
Opština Tivat — Sekretarijat za saobraćaj i stambeno-komunalne djelatnosti, the department's own page listing the substantive regulations it applies. This is the currency proof for the whole record and the reason the chain is three instruments rather than four. The page was last modified on 26 August 2026 and states the decision as 'Odluka o regulisanju saobraćaja na teritoriji Opštine Tivat (Službeni list Crne Gore – opštinski propisi, br. 045/16, 044/18 i 022/21)' — exactly the three instruments read in full for this record. That mattered, because the municipality's assembly register shows a 'Predlog Odluke o izmjenama i dopunama Odluke o regulisanju saobraćaja' on the supplementary agenda of the XVI session of 28 April 2024, and the adopted decisions of that session are published only inside a RAR5 archive, which this project does not read. The secretariat naming a chain that ends at 022/21 sixteen months later is what says that proposal did not become part of it. The page is also the live implementation proof: it publishes the application form for the over-5-tonne permit that article 5 as amended creates
Opština Tivat — Sekretarijat za saobraćaj i stambeno-komunalne djelatnosti, 'Zahtjev za izdavanje odobrenja za saobraćanje gradskim ulicama teretnim motornim vozilima najveće dozvoljene mase više od 5 t a najviše do 12 t'. The secretariat's own application form, which is where the two administrative fees are stated to the cent with their tariff numbers and the municipal account, and where the decision's 'proof of payment of the local administrative fee' becomes a figure a driver can budget for. It also shows what the applicant must declare — the registration, make and type of every goods vehicle, the period and the hours of running, the premises being supplied — and lists the route sketch the 2021 amendment added
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-20.