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The Corporation of the City Of Pickering
By-law No. 7122/11
Being a by-law to limit the gross vehicle weight of
any vehicle or class thereof passing over a bridge
under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the
City of Pickering pursuant to the Highway Traffic
Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.H.8, as amended.
Whereas,, pursuant to Section 123 (2) of the Highway 'Traffic Act R.S.O. 1990 c.H.8, as
amended, the municipal corporation or other authority having jurisdiction over a bridge may by
by-law, limit the gross vehicle weight of any vehicle or class thereof passing over the bridge.
Now therefore' the Council of The Corporation of the City of Pickering hereby enacts as
follows:
1. In this by-law "gross vehicle weight" means the total weight in tonnes transmitted to the
highway by a vehicle or combination of vehicles and load.
2. No vehicle or combination of vehicles or any class thereof, whether empty or loaded,
shall be operated over those bridges asset out in Column 1 and Column 2 of Schedule
A to this by-law where the gross weight exceeds that set out in Column 3 of Schedule A
to, this by-law.
3. This by-law shall not become effective until a notice of the maximum limit of gross
vehicle weight permitted, legibly printed, has been posted in a conspicuous place at
each end of the bridge.
4. Any person violating the provisions of this by-law is guilty of an offence and on
conviction is liable to a fine as provided in the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8,
as amended from time to time.
5. That the engineers statement verifying the gross vehicle weight limit specified in Section
2 of this by-law are set out in Schedule B, attached and forms part of this by-law.
6. By-law Number 6753/07 and By-law Number 6903/08 are repealed.
BY=LAW read a first, second and third time and finally passed this 18`h day of April,
2011.
I
David Ry n a r
Debbie Shields, City Clerk
By-law No. 7122/11 Page 2
Schedule A
Bridge Load Limits
Column 1` Column 2 Column 3
Bridge No. Bridge Location Maximum Gross Vehicle
Weight
5001 Whitevale Road 10. tonnes
k 330m east of Altona Road
6003 North Road 15 tonnes
0.4km south of Seventh Concession
t Road
7004 Sideline 34 10 tonnes
0.2km South of Eighth Concession
Road
8001 Eighth Concession Road 15 tonnes
0.10km west of Sideline 34
9006 Sideline 4 10.tonnes
1.4km north of Regional Road #5
10002 Pickering/Uxbridge Townline 15 tonnes
0.10km east of Sideline 30,
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5 Schedule B
- By-law No. 7122/11
RCAVO(~ Kfe VJa and L• ` I~CMBi-A,
professional engineers of the consulting firm Keystone Bridge Management
Corporation, have reviewed the restriction of the gross vehicle weight passing over the
bridges as identified in the above noted by-law.
Effective as of the date of approval of the bylaw, I agree with the recommended, gross
vehicle weight limit asset out in By-law 7122/11 for a period of twenty four (24)months.
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