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.
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(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,
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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
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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