Bylaw-097-and-097A-with-Truck-Route-Map — full text

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## BY-LAW NO. 97 BEING a by-law of the Village of Glenwood to regulate highway traffic in the Village of Glenwood. The Council of the Village of Glenwood duly assembled enacts as follows: - Title ontrol By-Law of the Law of the Village of CLeown as the Highway Traffio ## 2. Definitions - - (1) Highway means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway causeway, trestleway square, bridge, any part of which the public is ordinarily entitled or omitted touse for the pass more ne 2. (i) includes: 3. (a) A sidewalk (including the boulevard portion thereof 4. with (b) Where a ditch lies adjacent to and parallel the roadway, the ditch 5. (c) Where highway right-of-way is contained between fences or between a fence and one side of the roadway, all of the land between the fences or all of the land between the fence and the edge of the roadway, as the case may be. - (2) Motor Vehicle means every vehicle propelled by any power, other than muscular power, except aircraft and motor vehicles as run only upon rails. - (3) Peace Officer shall mean any member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a member of a municipal police force, special constable or a member of a patrol division of the Department of the Solicitor General and a By-Law Enforcement Officer of the municipality. - (4) Person shall include a corporation or a partnership. - (5) Stop means: 10. (i) When required a complete cessation from vehicular movement. - (6) Street Intersection or Intersection shall be and mean the whole area as situated between the prolongation of the boundary line of two or more streets and avenues which join at one an angle and whether such streets and avenues cross 12. Traffic Control Device means any sign, signal, marking, installation or device placed, marked, by authority of the Village Council or the Secretary Treasurer of the Village for the purpose of regulating, warning, guiding, restricting or prohibiting uses of highways or other places referred to in this By-Law by persons, vehicles and animals. 13. upon and by which a person or thing may be transported or Vehicle means any device in, rawn upon a hichway. - (9) Village shall mean the Village of Glenwood, in the Province of Alberta, Canada. ## 3. Heavy Vehicles - No person shall move any vehicle, nor permit to be parked any vehicle upon the highways of the Village if such vehicle exceeds, with or without load, five (5) tonnes (11,000 ]bs) in weight unless Treasurer of the a special permit › village. to do is first obtained from the Secretarv Any vehicle in excess of the aforesaid weight shall be restricted to the truck route as shown on the a attached map. - No person shall be convicted of an offence under this Section if he proves to the satisfaction of the Provincial Judge trying the case that: - He was pulling a motor vehicle disabled by accident or otherwise from a highway prohibited to heavy vehicles. - (b) He was driving a public passenger vehicle in respect of which the owner held a subsisting certificate. - (c) He was driving a school bus. - This section shall not apply to vehicles owned by or in the service of the Village and actually used in the service of the Village. - (4) This by-law is in effect on all highways within the Village with the exception of the designated truck route on the attached map. - (5) That the Secretary Treasurer of the Village is hereby directed to have appropriate signs placed and maintained where necessary on the highways of the Village to indicate to drivers of heavy vehicles the weight restrictions imposed herein. ## 4. Speed Limits - 1) No vehicles shall in any case be operated on anv highwa within the Village at a greater rate of speed than forty-five L5 kilometers per hour. 2. No person shall drive a vehicle on any highway or part thereof in the Village at any rate of speed in excess of the maximum speed prescribed pursuant to this section. ## 5. Stop Signs - The Secretary Treasurer of the Village shall cause to be properly marked by the erection of stop signs the following intersections of highways within the Village: - Stop 3rd Avenue avenues being Main Avenues nes West and Ith Avenue - (b) Stop signs on Ist Street North approaching lst Avenue lest and 2nd Avenue West. - (2) The driver of a vehicle about to enter upon any highway from a highway that is marked by a stop sign shall bring his vehicle to a stop - (a) Before entering upon the intersecting roadway and at a point no further than three (3) meters from the intersecting roadway or if there is a marked stop line on the near side of the intersection at the stop line. - (3) (a) Where a driver is required to stop pursuant to sub-section so can enter there in 2 the driver shall not proceed until the condition of the traffic upon the highway being entered upon is such that - (b) The driver shall yield the right-of-way to all traffic approaching thereon. ## 6. Yield signs - (1) The Secretary Treasurer of the Village shall cause to be properly marked by the erection of yield signs the following streets and highways within the Village: 2. Avenue (West side only) 4th Avenue West (East side only), lat Au weet 3. (b) Yield signs on Ist Avenue West approaching 3rd Street North. 4. Avenue Yield signs on 3rd Street North approaching Mair (West side only). 5. The driver of a vehicle about to enter upon any street is marked by a yield sign need not stop his vehicle before entering but he shall been the herinay before enterine a the right-of-way to all traffic ## 7. Penalties - Except as otherwise provided any person violating any of the provisions of this By-Law or any other person responsible for violation shall be liable on summary conviction before a Provincial Judge or any Justice of the Peace having Jurisdiction therein to a penalty not exceeding Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars exclusive of costs or in the case of nonpayment of the fine and imprisonment for a period not exceeding six 6) months unless he fine and costs including the costs of comittal are sooner paid. - (2) Where a person is convicted of an offence under Section Four of this By-Law relating to Speed Limits exceeded the maximum speed permitted by not more than fifteen (15) kilometers per hour he shail pay a fine of twenty ($20.00) dollars and in default of payment is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less thar - Where a person is convicted of an offence under Section Four of this By-Law relating to Speed Limits exceeded the maximum speed permitted by more than fifteen (15) kilometers per hour but not more than thirty (30) kilometers per hour he shali pay a fin of thirty ($30.00) dollars and in default of payment is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than seven (7) days. - Where a person is convicted of an offence under Section Four of this By-Law relating to Speed Limits exceeded the maximum speed permitted by more than thirty (30) kilometers not more than fifty (50) kilometers per hour he shaller har int of seventy-five ($75.00) dollars and in default of payment is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than fourteen (14) days. - Where a person is convicted of an offence under Section of this By-Law relating to Speed Limits exceeded the maximum speed permitted by not more than Fifty (50) kilometers per hour is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than twenty-one (21) days. ## 8. Enforcement - (1) The provisions of the Summary Convictions Act of the Province of Alberta shall apply and be followed in enforcing this By-Law. - (2) Ihis By-Law shall become into effect on the date of final passing thereof. Read the first time the 2nd day of May, 1979. ## Carried Read the second time the 2nd day of May, 1979. ## Carried Read the third time and passed this 6th day of June, 1979. ## Carried  VILLAGE OF GLENWOOD Erover A Shames Judy CA. Sylent. AND --- SECTION 6- YIELD SIGNS - (al Yield signs on First Street North approaching Main Ave. (west side only) approaching 3rd Ave. West, approaching 4th Ave. West (East side only) - Ist Ave. West. THEREFORE the Village of Glenwood Council amend this By=Law 97 deleting the entire Section 3 - HEAVY VEHICLES. EXCEPTION: HEAVY TRUCKS MUST USE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTES AS INDICATED. Section 6- YIELD SIGNS - - (a) Yield signs on First Street North approaching Main Avenue West (west only) approaching Third Ave. West, approaching Fourth Avenue west (east only -, First Ave. West. a FIRST and SECOND time and by UNANIMOUS CONSENT OF ALL COUNCILLORS PRESENT - A THIRD AND FINALLY PASSED THIS \_day of April 1987   -GLENWOOD wish lou tonne TREASURE ## BY-LAW NO. 97 A- Amendment to HIGHWAY TRAFFIC BY-LAW 97 - regulating the traffic in the Village of Glenwood, Alberta WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Sections 279 to 319 inclusive of the M.G.A. being Chapter M-26 RSA 1980 as amended to September 26, 1983, the Village of Glenwood has the power to enace such a by-law. ## WHEREAS the existing By-Law 97 Section 3 - HEAVY VEHICLES reads: - (1) No person shall move any vehicle, nor permit to be parked, any vehicle upon the highways of the Village if such vehicle exceeds with or without load, five (5) tonnes (11,000 Ibs) in weight unless a special permit, so to do is first obtained from the Secretary Treasurer of the Village. Any vehicle in excess of the aforesaid weight shall be restricted to the truck route as shown on the att- - (2) No person shall be convicted of an offence under this section if he proves to the satisfaction of the Prov. Judge trying the case that: 3. (a) He was pulling a motor vehicle disabled by accident or otherwise from a highway prohibited to heavy vehicles. 4. (b) He was driving a püblic passenger vehicle in respect of which owner held a subsisting certificate. 5. (c) He was driving a school bus. - (3) This section shall not apply to vehicles owned by or in the service of the Village of Glenwood and actually used in the service of Village. - (4) This by-law is in effect on all highways within the Village with the exception of the designated truck route on the attached map. - (5) That the Sec. Treasurer of the Village is hereby directed to have appropriate signs placed and maintained where necessary on the highways of the Village to indicate to drivers of heavy vehicles the weight restrictions imposed herein.