HomeMy WebLinkAbout By-law 1755/83THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PICKERING
BY-LAW NUMBER 1755/83
Being a by-law to amend By-law Number
851/78 to authorize certain on-street
parking of vehicles operated by or for
physically handicapped persons and the
issuing of permits in respect thereof
WHEREAS Council enacted By-law 851/78 on July 10, 1978 to
provide for the regulating of parking, standing and stopping
on highways or parts of highways under the jurisdiction of
the Corporation of the Town of Pickering and on private and
municipal property; and
WHEREAS by By-law 1296/81 enacted on July 1, 1981, By-law
851/78 was amended to provide for exemptions for physically
handicapped persons' vehicles and parking spaces for physi-
cally handicapped persons' vehicles; and
WHEREAS by Resolution ~26/83, Item 46 passed on March 21,
1983, Council agreed to participate in a Regional Handicapped
Parking Program;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Town of
Pickering HEREBY ENACTS as follows:
Section 10a of By-law 851/78 is hereby deleted and the
following substituted therefor:
10a. (1) In this section, and in section 10b,
(a)
"permit" shall mean a permit issued
on an annual basis to a physically
handicapped person by the Town of
Pickering;
(b)
"physically handicapped person" shall
mean a person who is permanently
confined to a wheelchair or who is
restricted to the permanent use of
crutches or braces or who otherwise
is permanently disabled in such a
way that his or her mobility is
seriously restricted.
(2
The Town Clerk is hereby authorized to
issue permits to physically handicapped
persons to allow on-street parking of
vehicles operated by or for physically
handicapped persons.
(3
The Town Clerk is hereby authorized to
issue an identifying marker to be used
in connection with a permit issued pur-
suant to subsection 2 of this section.
(4
No person other than a physically handi-
capped person shall acquire or use a
permit allowing parking of vehicles
operated by or for physically handicapped
persons.
e
10a. (5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
Paragraph
851/78 is
therefor:
No person, other than a physically handicapped
person who has lawfully acquired a permit
pursuant to subsection 2 of this section shall
acquire or use an identifying marker issued in
connection with a permit.
No person shall use, other than in the manner
provided for in this by-law, an identifying
marker issued in connection with a permit.
(a)
(b)
The identifying marker issued in connection
with a permit shall be affixed to the sun
visor of the driver or passenger's side of
the motor vehicle operated by or for a
physically person and such identifying
marker shall be affixed in such a manner
so that it is readily visible from outside
of the vehicle when the visor is turned
down;
An identifying marker issued in connection
with a permit shall be deemed to be pro-
perly displayed when the visor is turned
down and the identifying marker is
readily visible from the outside of the
vehicle.
A permit or other marker issued by the ~{uni-
cipality of Metropolitan Toronto for the
purpose of identifying handicapped persons
or vehicles used by handicapped persons shall
be deemed to be permits issued under the
authority of this by-law.
Nothwithstanding the provisions of any section
of By-law 851/78, as amended, and notwith-
standing the display of authorized signs to
the contrary, where a vehicle operated by or
for a physically handicapped person in respect
of which person a permit has been issued and
on which vehicle the identifying marker issued
in connection with said permit is properly
displayed, the owner and the driver of such
vehicle is exempt from the following provision
of the by-law:
(a)
Section 3(5) (j), provided that no such
vehicles shall be parked on any highway
pursuant to this section for a period
exceeding 24 hours.
(a) of subsection 4 of section 10b of By-law
hereby deleted and the following substituted
10b. (4) (a)
(i)
(2)
"the vehicle is a vehicle in respect of
which ~ permit is in effect and on which
an identifying marker is properly dis-
played, and"
Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section 11 of
By-law 851/78 is hereby amended by deleting there-
from the words "or of subsection (4) of section
10b"
Subsection (1) 9f section 11 of By-law 851/78 is
hereby amended by adding thereto the following
paragraph:
3. (2) "(e)
(3)
(1)
Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each offence,
exclusive of costs where the contraven-
tion is of the provisions of subsection
(4) of section 10b of this by-law;"
Paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section 11 of
By-law 851/78 is hereby renumbered to paragraph (f).
Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section 11 of
By-law 851/78 is hereby amended by deleting there-
from the words "or of subsection (4) of section
10b."
(2) Subsection (2) of section 11 of By-law 851/78 is
hereby amended by adding thereto the following:
"(e)
Fifty Dollars ($50.00) for each offence,
exclusive of costs where the contraven-
tion is of the provisions of subsection
(4) of section 10b of this by-law;"
BY-LAW READ a first, second and third time and finally PASSED
this 21st day of November, 1983.
clerk