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VILLAGE OF GRANISLE
BY-LAW NO.
55
A By-law to regulate, control, or prohibit traffic, and to give
effect to, and shall be consistent with and not in derogation
to the provisions of the Municipal Act.
The Council for the Village of Granisle in open meeting assembled
enacts as
follows:
PART
I
T.
This By-law may be cited as "The Village of Granisle Traffic
By-law No.55, 1975".
2.
In this By-law, unless the context otherwise requires, the
expressions and definitions contained within the "Motor Vehicle Act",
the "Motor Carrier Act" and the "Highway Act" and the "Municipal Act",
shall be applicable and these additional local municipal interpretations
shall prevail throughout:
"Village" shall mean the Village of Granisle and the territory thereof;
"Lane"
shall mean every lane, alley, or public thoroughfare, and
every way, separating the side or real property lines of
parcels of land abutting on highways running more or less
parallel to and on each side of such highways, lanes or ways;
"Parade"
shall mean any procession or body of pedestrians, "except
members of the Armed Forces: numbering more than thirty
people, standing, marching, or walking, upon any highway
or sidewalk, or any group of vehicles numbering ten or
more "except funeral processions" standing or moving on
any highway;
"Peace Officer" shall mean every person, as defined as such under the
Motor Vehicle Act, and shall also mean a person appointed
by the Council of the Village to enforce the provisions of
this By-law;
"Person"
shall mean and include natural persons of either sex,
associations, corporations, bodies politic and co-partnerships,
whether acting by themselves or by a servant, agent or
employee.
The singular shall, when necessary, be held to mean
and include the plural; the masculine, the feminie, and the
converse thereof;
"Private Road" or "Driveway" shall mean every road or driveway the title
to or possession of which is not vested in the Crown:
"Works Foreman" shall mean the Municipal Employee of the Village or any
other person for the time being authorized to carry out the
duties ascribed to the said Works Foreman under the provisions
of this or any other By-law of this Village.
3.
Every person operating, driving, or propelling any vehicle or riding
or propelling any bicycle, or walking, travelling or standing in, upon
or on any highway or sidewalk, or riding any horse or other animal shall
comply with any lawful directions, command, or order when made, required,
demanded or signalled by any peace officer.
4.
No person other than the owner or operator of a vehicle shall remove
any notice placed thereon or affixed thereto by any peace officer in the
course of his duty.
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5.
The exemptions for any emergency vehicles as set forth in the Motor
Vehicle Act shall prevail, and in addition, any member of the Fire
Department while in the course of duty, in or about any fire, or at the
scene of any accident, in order to expedite traffic or safeguard
pedestrians, may direct traffic on any street in the vicinity, and it
shall be unlawful for any person to fail to comply with the directions
of any such member of the Fire Department.
6.
For the purposes of enforcing this by-law, the Village Council may
by resolution, authorize and appoint certain employees of the Village
as "Officers" who, in addition to the Peace Officers having jurisdiction
within the Village, shall exercise all the necessary powers provided
herein, to enforce the provisions of the By-law, by the laying of an
information when necessary.
PART II
7.
The Council shall determine and designate the location of all traffic
control devices,
and may authorize and appoint the Works Foreman to place
and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all such traffic control
devices.
8.
Traffic control devices and temporary traffic control devices shall
be erected in accordance with the provisions of this By-law, and such
traffic control devices when so placed or erected shall have full force
and effect as to the provisions of the "Motor Vehicle Act" or the
provisions of this By-law, or any other By-law of this Village.
9.
The Council may, by resolution, close to traffic or any class of
traffic, any street or any portion of any street, excepting an arterial
highway, for such time or for such periods of time as may be deemed
necessary.
10.
The Works Foreman, Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief, or Peace Officer,
or any other persons specifically authorized by Council, may erect or
place within the Village a temporary traffic control device at any time
or place in the interests of public safety.
The person placing such
traffic control device shall forthwith notify the Village Clerk in
writing and the Village Clerk shall notify the Council at the next regular
meeting of such action.
11.
The Works Foreman may erect or place or may permit to be erected
or placed temporary traffic control devices on any highway where
construction, reconstruction, widening, repair, marking, or any other work is
being carried out, to:
(a)
indicate that men or equipment are working upon
the highway, and
Cb)
to regulate or prohibit traffic in the vicinity
of such work.
12.
(1)
Every driver or pedestrian shall obey the directions,
or instructions or prohibitions on or indicated by any traffic control
device placed or erected in accordance with this or any By-law of this
Village, or the "Motor Vehicle Act", unless otherwise directed by a
peace officer;
(2)
Where such traffic control devices are erected or placed
to close any street or portion thereof to traffic, it shall be unlawful
for any driver to pass beyond such traffic control device, or to enter
such closed street or portion thereof;
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(3)
No person shall deface, damage, injure, move, remove,
obstruct, or otherwise interfere with, intentionally or otherwise, any
traffic control device placed or erected upon any highway within this
Village, pursuant to the provisions of the "Motor Vehicle Act:, or of
this By-law or any other By-law of this Village;
(4)
No person shall establish, place, erect or maintain or
display in, or upon, or in view of any highway, any sign, signal or
other device which purports to be, or is in imitation of, or resembles
any. traffic control device, or which attempts to direct the movement
of traffic or the parking of vehicles, or which hides from view any
authorized traffic control device.
PART III
13.
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The Council may designate as "No Parking" zones, or as
"No Stopping" zones areas in which parking or stopping is prohibited,
or designate as restricted parking or restricted stopping zones, areas
in which parking or stopping is restricted and may designate certain
areas as Loading Zones;
(2)
Unless when so designating any area as a zone in accordance
with the foregoing subsection the Council limits the
hours or days
when the prohibition or restriction shall be in effect, the prohibition
or restriction shall be in effect at all times;
(3)
The Council may place or cause to be placed signs to
indicate areas which it designates as "No Parking" zones, "No Stopping"
zones, restricted parking or restricted stopping zones, or loading zones.
14.
The Council may for the better regulation of traffic cause to
be placed on any street moveable signs other than those hereinbefore
referred to displaying the "No Parking By Order of the Council".
It shall be unlawful for any person in charge, control or possession
of any vehicle to park such vehicle, except for the purpose of loading
or unloading merchandise or freight, in any area designated by such signs.
15.
No person being in charge, control or possession of any vehicle
shall park or stop the said vehicle at any place which is indicated by
sign, signal or other marking, placed in accordance with the restriction
indicated by such sign, signal or marking or as hereinafter provided:
(a)
In the case of "No Parking" zones no person being in
charge or control of any vehicle shall cause or permit
such vehicle to remain stationary in a "No Parking" zone for
a period in excess of two minutes;
(b)
No person being in charge, control or possession of any
vehicle shall cause or permit such vehicle to stop or
remain stationary in any "No Stopping" zone except when
necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, or
in
compliance with the direction of a Police Officer, or a traffic
control signal;
(c)
The Council may designate and so mark certain portions of
streets as bus or taxi zones; and no person in charge, control
or possession of any vehicle not being a transportation bus
or taxi shall stop his vehicle in any bus or taxi zone.
16.
(1)
The Council may designate streets or parts of streets on
which vehicles shall be parked at an angle with the curb or edge of
the roadway, and it shall be lawful for the Council to place or
authorize to be placed on such streets or parts of streets signs indicating
that vehicles shall park at an angle with the curb or
road edge;
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C2)
No person in charge control or possession of any vehicle
shall park the said vehicle except so that it shall stand within twelve
(12") inches of and at an angle of forty-five (45) degrees with the
curb or road edge and at a distance of not less than two (2') feet from
any other vehicle on any street on which signs have been placed to
indicate angle parking.
17.
(1)
The Council may designate streets or parts of streets on
which parking shall be permitted for a limited time only, and it shall
be lawful for the Council to place or authorize to be placed signs
indicating that parking shall be permitted for a limited time only on
such streets or parts of streets;
(2)
No person being in charge, control or possession of any
vehicle shall park such vehicle for a period of time in excess of the
time limit indicated by such signs.
18.
(1)
Except when necessary to avoid conflict with traffic or to
comply with the law or the directions of a peace officer or traffic
control device, or
in the case of any vehicles so mechanically disabled
as to prevent the moving of the same, no person shall stop, stand, or
park a vehicle:
(a)
on a sidewalk or boulevard;
(b)
in front of a public or private driveway;
(c)
within an intersection, except as permitted by a sign;
(d)
within fifteen feet of a fire hydrant;
(e)
on a crosswalk;
(f)
within twenty feet of the approach side of a crosswalk;
(g)
within twenty feet upon the approach of any flashing
beacon, stop sign, or traffic control signal located at
the side of a roadway;
(h)
within twenty feet either side of the entrance to or
exit from any hotel, theatre, public meeting place,
dance-hall, fire hall, or playground;
(i)
upon any highways for the principal purpose of
(i)
displaying a vehicle for sale;
(ii) advertising, greasing, painting, wrecking, storing,
-or repairing
any vehicle, except where repairs are
necessitated by an emergency;
(iii) displaying signs;
(iv) selling flowers, fruit, vegetables, sea foods, or
other commodities or articles;
(j)
alongside or opposite a street excavation or obstruction
when stopping, standing, or parking obstructs traffic;
(k)
on the roadway side of vehicle stopped or parked at the
edge or curb of a roadway;
(1)
in a place in contravention of a traffic control device
that gives notice that stopping, standing, or parking
is there prohibited or restricted;
(m)
in such a manner as to obstruct the visibility of any
standard traffic sign erected by or with the authority
of the Minister of Highways or the Village;
(n)
in any lane or alley in such manner as to obstruct the
free movement of vehicular traffic in the lane or alley;
(o)
in any lane or alley in such a position or manner as to
obstruct the free movement of vehicular traffic in or
out of any driveway or private road adjoining such lane;
(2)
Except when this By-law permits and otherwise directs or
a police officer so instructs, no driver shall stop, stand, or park a
vehicle other than on the right side of a highway and with the right-
hand wheels parallel to that side and where there is a curb, within
twelve (12") inches of the curb;
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(3)
No person shall move a vehicle that is not lawfully under
Ms control into any of the places mentioned in subsection (1).
19.
For the better regulation of traffic the Council may place or
cause to be placed marks or lines upon the surface of any street or
streets indicating the spaces or portions of such street or streets
within which each vehicle shall be parked, and it shall be unlawful for
any driver or person in charge, control or possession of any vehicle
to park such vehicle on any street marked as aforesaid unless such
vehicle is wholly within the space indicated by such lines or marks.
20.
(1)
No trailer of any kind whatever shall be parked on any
highway of the Village, unless it is attached to a vehicle capable
of towing it;
(2)
No motor vehicle of any kind whatsoever shall remain parked
on any street of the Village for continuous period of more than
twenty-four (24) hours;
(3)
Except where otherwise directed by a Peace Officer, the
driver of a vehicle shall not stop, stand or park a vehicle on that
side and portion of any street which abutts upon any property occupied
by a school or used as a school playground on any school day between the
hours of 8 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon as
indicated by appropriate signs.
21.
(1)
The provisions of this By-law prohibiting stopping or
parking shall not apply:
(a)
to any emergency vehicle while attending at any emergency
call, but this exemption shall not excuse the driver of
any such vehicle from exercising due and proper care
for
the safety of other traffic;
(b)
to Municipal or Provincial utility vehicles;
(c)
to vehicles of a public utility corporation;
(d)
wrecking vehicles,
while such vehicles are actually engaged
in works of necessity requiring them to be stopped, to
stand, or to park, in contravention of such provision,
provided, however, the burden of proof shall be upon the
operator of such vehicle to establish the necessity of
the operation which produced the contravention of the parking
regulation as set down by this By-law.
PART IV:
GENERAL STREET REGULATIONS
22.
SPEED LIMIT IN THE VILLAGE:
The speed limit in all lanes and streets throughout the Village, as
posted, shall not be more than twenty
(20) miles per hour, for all traffic.
The speed limit on all highways throughout the Village shall be not more
than twenty (20) miles per hour for all traffic, unless otherwise posted.
23.
NOISE MAKING DEVICES.
No person shall operate upon any motor vehicle or any vehicle,
any calliope, loudspeaker, or noise-maker device upon the streets of
the Village for advertising or for any purposes, unless a written
permit has been applied for and granted by the Council.
24.
SCHOOL CROSSING:
(1)
The Council is hereby authorized to establish school crossings,
upon any highway within the Village, where the same are deemed necessary,
and shall by order post traffic control devices for the regulation and
control of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, with respect to such crossings;
^(2)
The Principal of any regular day school in the Village may
appoint from among the students a school patrol to assist pedestrians
in crossing,
highways at designated school crosswalks during the hours of
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on any regular school day.
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(3)
A member of a school patrol may control the movement of
traffic at such designated school crosswalks by exhibiting a manual
traffic control device of a design approved by resolution of the
Village Council'
(4)
Drivers of vehicles and pedestrians shall obey the
instructions of any approved traffic control device exhibited by
a member of a school patrol at designated school crosswalks.
25.
DRIVING OVER FIRE-HOSE PROHIBITED:
Unless he has received consent of the fire department official
in command or a peace officer, a person shall not drive a vehicle
over an unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on a
highway or private driveway at a fire or an alarm of fire.
26.
PROTECTION OF HIGHWAYS:
No person shall:
(1)
Throw, drop, deposit or leave, or let fall from or out
of any vehicle or conveyance, any bottle or bottles, glass, crockery,
nails, tacks, wood, sawdust, or refuse, or any object or materials
whatever, or throw, or cause to be deposited, or to let allow to flow
any noxious, offensive, or filthy water or substance on or upon any
street or sidewalk;
(2)
Cut, saw, break, split, place or pile firewood, lumber,
blocks, rock, stone, debris, or other materials, or mix mortar to do
any job upon any street or sidewalk which will obstruct or impede
traffic thereon or deface or injure such street or sidewalk;
(3)
Remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from any street
without also removing glass or other injurious substances dropped upon
the street from such vehicle;
(4)
Camp, either by day or night on any highway;
(5)
Make any fire on any highway, or making a fire at any
place so as to endanger any installation on any highway;
(6)
Leave any dead animal on any highway;
(7)
Construct a ditch, the water from which causes damage
to any highway;
(8)
Drag or
haul any timber or other articles along or over
any street in such manner that any of the same shall rest upon or come
in contact with the surface of such street, or to use any drag or stone-
boat upon the streets in the Village;
(9)
Haul or convey and load, material of any kind, on or through
any street in the Village in any vehicle to permit or allow any portion
of such load to overhang the rear or side of the said vehicle in such a
manner as shall cause the said load to drag upon the surface of the .street;
(10) Convey dirt, sand, earth, brick, gravel, manure, sawdust,
pieces of wood or other substances or material along, through, or upon
any street to allow or permit the same or any part, piece, or portion
thereof to be dropped upon any street, or in any case to remain thereon.
27.
It shall be unlawful for any person to permit any accumulation of
snow or ice to remain upon any sidewalk in front of or abutting any
premises owned or occupied by him after ten o'clock in any morning of
any day, except Sunday.
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28.
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, or cause or suffer
to be placed by any person in his employment or under his control, any
merchandise or wares of any nature on any sidewalk in front or alongside
any premises occupied by him for the purpose of display or. for any
purpose except in the actual course of receipt or delivery or to any
portion of any sidewalk for the purpose of measuring or packing or
unpacking goods, wares or merchandise.
29.
It shall be unlawful -for any person to build, construct, place,
maintain, occupy, throw, leave, pass, tie, or put or cause to be built,
constructed, placed,, maintained, occupied, thrown, left, passed, tied,
or put in any street (except in accordance with the provisions of the
by-laws of the Village) any structure, fence post, firewood, coal,
chattel, rod, chain, rail, wire, box, barrel, keg, merchandise, vehicle,
animal or any object, substance or thing or to lay or construct or
reconstruct any sidewalk on any street without first obtaining the written
permission of the Works Foreman.
30.
It shall be unlawful for any person to break, tear up, or remove
any planking, pavement, sidewalk, crossing, curbing, macadam, or other
surface on any street, or dig or make any excavation in, on, or under
any street within the Village for any purpose whatsoever without having
first obtained the written permission of the Works Foreman to do so;
and it shall be the duty of any person having obtained such permission
to break, tear up, or remove any such planking, pavement, sidewalk,
crossing, curbing, macadam, or other surface of any street, or having
obtained permission to dig or make any excavation on, in or under any
street, to relay and fill up the same and to put the same in as good
repair as before such breaking, tearing up, removing, digging, and
excavation shall be done under the direction and supervision of the
Works Foreman, and the same shall be replaced to the satisfaction of
the said Works Foreman and every person to whom permission as aforesaid
shall be granted, shall erect and maintain a good and sufficient red or
amber light during the night, and shall take such further care and
precaution as the Works Foreman may deem necessary and direct for the
protection and safety of the public; and shall indemnify the Village
against all loss, costs, charges, expenses, and damages to which the
Village may be put by reason of such breaking, tearing up, removing,
digging or excavation as aforesaid, or by reason of the permission
granted him to do so; and it shall be the duty of the Works Foreman,
before giving any such permission to take from every such person,
security that he will perform all the obligations imposed upon him by
the By-law or any other By-law of the Village relating thereto; such
security as aforementioned shall be in a form acceptable by the Council.
31.
Every person who shall make any excavation for any purpose adjoining,
or adjacent to, any street within the Village shall build and maintain
a good and sufficient fence or other barrier along the line of such
street, so as to effectually guard such excavation, and to protect and
guard persons, horses, and vehicles travelling
along such street against
danger, risk, or accident by reason of such excavation.
32.
No person shall erect or maintain any doorstep, porch, railing, or
other projection or obstruction, into or on any street in the Village
without first obtaining a permit from the Council therefor.
Awnings
shall not be placed or suspended over any part of any street or highway
unless the lowest portion of such awning
is at least seven (7') feet
above the sidewalk of said street or highway.
33.
The Works Foreman is hereby authorized to remove any object or
thing which is an obstruction to
the free use of any street, in the
Village, or which may interfere with the free use thereof, or which
may encroach thereon, but such authority as given under this section
shall not in anyway relieve from responsibility or liability any person
guilty of any infraction of any of the provisions of this By-law or any
other By-law of the Village.
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34.
Funeral processions shall be identified as such by each Vehicle
therein having its headlights illuminated or by the display of a
pennant or other identifying insignia.
35.
(1)
No person, except by special permit as hereinafter provided,
shall drive a vehicle on any street of the Village of Granisle, excluding
arterial highways as established under Section 32 of the Highway Act,
having, a greater dimension, gross weight, axle-load or tire load, than
the limits of weights, loads and dimensions prescribed in regulation 9.02,
9.03 and 9.04(a) to (e) inclusive of regulations pursuant to the
Department of Commercial Transport Act and Section 1904 of the Motor
Vehicle act of the Province of British Columbia or consisting of a
combination of more than two vehicles coupled together;
(2)
Any person desiring a permit required by subsection (1)
shall make application in writing therefor to the Works Foreman giving
such particulars therein as the Works Foreman may require.
The Works
Foreman may in his discretion by a special permit in writing, but
subject to the conditions or limitations as may be stated therein,
authorize the operation and driving of vehicles and loads which are
otherwise prohibited from being operated or driven pursuant to subsection
(i);
(3)
Before any permit is issued pursuant to subsection (2)
the applicant shall deposit with the Works Foreman a bond of indemnity
to secure payment to the Village the cost of repairing or reconstruction
of any streets or other property of the Village damaged by reason of
the driving or operating of the vehicle for which the permit is granted.
Such bond shall be in the amount prescribed by the Works Foreman and
shall be in the form satisfactory to the Council;
(4)
No person shall operate or use any vehicle having wheels,
tires or treads, constructed or equipped with projecting spikes, clouts,
ribs, clamps, flanges, lugs or other attachments or projections which
extend beyond the tread traction surface of the wheel, tire or track,
upon any street in the Village.
36.
It shall be unlawful for any person to leave any horse, mule, or
other animal attached to any conveyance or vehicle on any street within
the Village without it being securely fastened or guarded or attached
to a metallic object of at least sixteen pounds in weight placed on the
ground or pavement.
37.
No person shall remove any earth, rock, boulders, gravel, sand or
turf from any street, park or lot belonging to the Village without first
having obtained a permit in writing from the Council or any officer
authorized by said Council to do so, upon such terms, conditions and
regulations as shall be specified in such a permit.
38.
No person shall form part of a group of persons congregated on a
street in such manner as to obstruct the free passage of pedestrians
or vehicles, except with written permission of the Council.
39.
No person shall do anything which will direct the attention of
persons and cause them to congregate in a group upon any street in such
a manner as to obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles, or
in such manner that persons so congregated might thus be in danger of
injury from traffic, except with the written permission of the Council.
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40.
PARADE:
(1)
No person shall be a member of, or take part in any
parade unless:
(a)
Such a parade be under the direction or control of
some
- person as marshal or organizer and;
(b)
A written permit for such parade has been issued to
such marshal or organizer by the Village Clerk as
hereinafter provided;
(2)
No parade shall be held unless application therefor had
been made in writing to the Village Council by the Marshal or Organizer
or other person or persons in charge thereof, at least twenty-four (24)
hours before the parade commences;
(3)
Such application shall specify the nature of the parade,
the day and hour on or at which such parade is to be held, the place
or places of formation or commencement thereof, the route intended to
be taken and the point of disbandment thereof;
(4)
The Village Clerk may issue a permit for a parade, subject
to any terms he may impose as to time, route, or otherwise, if any
deviation from such direction is made or, if such directions be not
otherwise complied with (save as directed by the Village Clerk), the
permits shall be void and to no effect;
(5)
The Canadian flag unfurled and measuring not less than
three (3) feet by six (6) feet in size shall be prominently, properly
and continuously displayed at the head of such parade.
If any flags or
emblems of other nations, societies, organizations or associations
are displayed, the same shall be displayed under or behind the Canadian
flag.
41.
The Council may from time to time designate streets or lanes or
portions thereof as one-way streets or lanes and no driver shall operate
a vehicle on a one-way street or lane except in the direction indicated
by a traffic sign.
For the purpose of this Section a one-way street or
lane means a street or lane upon which vehicular traffic shall move only
in the direction indicated.
42.
No person shall lead, ride, drive or tether any animal, or drive
or propel any vehicle or bicycle or trailer upon any sidewalk or footpath
provided that this section shall not apply to crossing a sidewalk over a
crossing which has been especially constructed for that purpose for
gaining entrance or exit to or from premises; and provided that further
it shall be lawful for the Works Foreman to issue a permit granting any
person permission to lead, ride or drive or tether any animal or drive
or propel any vehicle upon or across any sidewalk for the purposes of gaining
entrance to any premises, or for any other purpose whatsoever upon such
terms and conditions as shall be specified in such permit.
PART V:
VIOLATIONS PROVISIONS:
43.
(1)
Any chattel, vehicle or obstruction occupying any portion
of a highway or public place, where such chattel, vehicle or obstruction
interferes with the normal flow of traffic on the highway or public place
or interferes with the maintenance of the highway or public place by
men or equipment provided for that purpose or where it is stopped, standing,
or parked in contravention of the provisions of the "Motor Vehicle Act"
or this by-law, or any other by-law of the Village shall be deemed to
be unlawfully occupying a portion of the said highway or public place
as the case may be.
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(2)
Any member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Fire
Department or an Officer appointed by Council under the provisions of
this By-law, may remove or cause to be removed any chattel, vehicle or
obstruction, unlawfully occupying any portion of a highway or public
place within the Village and shall cause the said property to be towed
or taken to a place of storage and they shall immediately report the
matter to the R.C.M.P., giving a complete description of the property
and the location of the place of storage;
(3)
(a)
All fees, costs and expenses incurred for the towing,
delivery and storing of the chattel, vehicle or
obstruction shall be paid by the owner of the said
property, and in default of payment by the owner
within thirty (30) days from the date of impoundment,
The Village Clerk is hereby authorized to sell the
said property at public auction, or to take action
on behalf of the Village in any Court of competent
jurisdiction to recover the said fees, costs and
expenses as he may deem necessary and expedient;
(b)
Where the impounded chattel, vehicle or obstruction
was stopped, standing or parked in violation of the
provisions of this By-law or any other By-law of the
Village and when the owner of the said property has
paid
all fees, costs and expenses incurred thereof,
no further fine, penalty or costs shall be imposed
hereby for the said By-law infraction;
(4)
All property removed, detained or impounded under the
provisions of this section shall be deemed to have come into the custody
and possession of the Police Force on behalf of the Village, and where
the owner of the property has not been ascertained, and no order of a
competent court has been made with respect thereto, the property shall
be disposed of or sold by the Collector as he may deem proper in
accordance with the provisions of Section 461
(3) of the Municipal Act.
44.
PENALTIES:
Any person contravening or committing any breach of or committing
any offence against any of the provisions of this By-law or of the
regulations or orders issued under this By-law, or refusing, omitting, or
neglecting to fulfill, observe, carry out or perform any duty or obligations
by this By-law, or by the regulations or orders created hereunder, prescribed
or imposed, are liable on summary conviction, to a fine of not more than
Three Hundred (300) Dollars and costs, or to a term of imprisonment
not exceeding thirty (30) days, or both.
45.
This By-law shall come into force and take effect upon the date of
acceptance for registration by the Inspector of Municipalities.
Read a first time this
Read a second time this
Read a third time this
3
day of xv?a^/?/*/1975.
day of r-e £-£««-*-*/1975.
day of Ftbr-^n «.y 1975.
Reconsidered and finally adopted this
3
day of JfAAA. &
Mayor
Certified a true and correct copy of
By-law No.55, cited
as 'Village of
Granisle Traffic By-Law No.55, 1975".
Clerk
A: frm copy of By-law No.
registered in Hie office oUhejnspector
of Ilmicips&iijp*tttfr&%%' day of
19 fS*
60*X!S^. Deputy Inspector of Municipal!^ -
1975
Clerk