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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 3923/71THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING BY-LAW NUMBER 3 9a 3 hl For regulating, governing and prohibiting the operation of motorized snow vehicles within the municipality. WHEREAS The Motorized Snow Vehicles Act 1968 provides that by-laws may be passed by the council of a local municipality for regulating, governing or prohibiting the operation of motorized snow vehicles within the municipality. NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTED and IT IS HEREBY ENACTED by the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Pickering as follows: 1. DEFINITIONS In this By-law: (a) "Highway" includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, lane, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle under the jurisdiction of The Corporation of the Township of Pickering including any part or parts thereof, designed and intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles, and means the entire width between the boundary lines of the highway. (b) "Motorized Snow Vehicle" means a self-propelled vehicle designed to be driven exclusively on snow or ice or both. (c) "Township" means The Corporation of the Township of Pickering. (d) "Private Property" means property that has been clearly marked as such by fences, hedges or barriers of any kind or property that is a garden or lawn or property not enclosed on which one or more signs have been erected by or on behalf of the owner, occupant or agent of the owner or occupant forbidding trespassing. - 2 - (e) "Park or Parking' means the standing of a vehicle whether occupied or not. (f) "Sidewalk" means municipal property that is or hereafter may be physically set apart or made available and intended for pedestrian use by the public as a sidewalk, or that is designated by Council for use as a park or township side- walk by by-law or otherwise, 2, (a) No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle along or across any sidewalk or part of a sidewalk in the Township. (b) Notwithstanding 2 (a) above where motorized snow vehicles are permitted to travel on highways within the township, a person may drive a motorized snow vehicle across a sidewalk to enter on or exit from such a highway provided the person crosses approximately perpendicular to the sidewalk. 31 No person shall park a motorized snow vehicle on any highway or part of a highway or any sidewalk or any part of a sidewalk on which the operation of a motorized snow vehicle is prohibited thereon. 4, No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle on private property without authority from the owner or occupant of such property, 5. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle along or across any highway or part of a highway under the jurisdiction of the township within that part of the township lying South of the MacDonald Cartier Freeway, 6, The driver of a motorized snow vehicle may operate the motorized snow vehicle along or across any highway or part of a highway under the jurisdiction of the township within that part of the township lying North of the MadDonald Cartier Freeway, provided such vehicle is driven as near the right curb or side of the roadway as the circumstances permit and in accordance with the regulations made under The Motorized Snow Vehicle Act, - 3 - 1968 which prescribe rules for driving motorized snow vehicles upon a highway and requiring compliance therewith. 7. Where a person may operate a motorized snow vehicle within the township in accordance with the provisions of this by-law, such motorized snow vehicle shall not be operated between the hours of 10.00 p.m. and 8.00 a.m. the day following. 8. The provisions of this by-law shall not apply to the operation of a motorized snow vehicle in the following circumstances; (a) When a motorized snow vehicle is being operated in an organized meet, rally or race which is held under the authority and permission of a Resolution of the Council of the Township. (b) When such a motorized snow vehicle is being operated in a parade that is held under the authority of a parade permit from the Council of the Township. (c) When such a motorized snow vehicle is actually engaged in works undertaken by or on behalf of the Township. 9. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law is guilty of an offence and on summary conviction is liable to a fine of not less that $20.00 and not more than $300.00 (ekelusive of costs) for each offence. 10. The driver of a motorized snow vehicle, not being the owner, is liable to any penalty provided under this by-law, and the owner of the motorized snow vehicle is also liable to such penalty unless at the time the offence is committed, the motorized snow vehicle was in the possession s of a person other than the owner with`the owner's consent. READ A FIRST, SECOND and THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED THIS fI DAY OF 197/. REEVE CLERK