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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 4150/72THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING BY-LAW NUMBER 1711 S G/Z 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 of parts thereof, designed and intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles. (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. Continued ...... 2 -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. (g) "Roadway" means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and, where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively. 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 approxi- mately perpendicular to the sidewalk. 3. 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. Continued ...... 3 - 3 - 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 Finch Avenue between the Pickering/Scarborough Town line on the West and the West Boundary of Pickering Village on the East and within that part of the Township lying South of the MacDonald Cartier Freeway between the Easterly boundary of Pickering Village and the Westerly boundary of the Town of Whitby. 6. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle along any roadway or part of a roadway under the jurisdiction of the Township within that part of the Township lying North of the MacDonald Cartier Freeway, between the Easterly Boundary of the Township of Pickering and the Easterly Boundary of the Village of Pickering on the West and North of Finch Avenue between the Westerly Boundary of Pickering Village on the East and the Westerly Boundary of Pickering Township on the West, provided that any person may cross such roadway at right angles thereto and in accordance with the regulations made under The Motor- ized Snow Vehicles Act, R.S.O. 1970, C. 283. (a) From Sunday to Thursday of any week 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 11.00 p.m. and 88.00 a.m. the day following. (b) In all that part of the Township lying south of the north boundary of the road allowance between the First and Second Concession, on Friday and Saturday of any week, 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 operate between the hours of 12 midnight and 8.00 a.m. the day following. Continued ...... 4 -4- 7. (c) In all that part of the Township lying north of the north boundary of the road allowance between the First and Second Concession, on Saturday and Sunday of any week, 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 operate between the hours of 2.00 a.m.and 8.00 a.m.. 8. The provisions of this by-law shall not apply to the operation of motorized snow vehicles in the following circumstances: (a) When a motorized snow vehicle is being operated in an organized nect, rally or race which is held under the authority and permission of a Resolution of the Council of the Township. (b) When such 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 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 than $20.00 and not more than $300.00 (exclusive 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 of a person other than the owner without the owner's consent. Continued ...... 5 - 5 - 11. By-law Numbers 3939/71 and 4069/71 be and the same are hereby repealed. READ A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TIME AND PASSED THIS Cv ?? day of "I?iew 1972, e ---- Reeve Clerk J