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Town of Qualicum Beach
TRAFFIC BYLAW
Bylaw No. 225,1970
CONSOLIDATED FOR CONVENIENCE ONLY
This is a consolidation of Bylaw No. 225 with the bylaws below. The amending
bylaws have been combined with the original bylaw for convenience only.
This
consolidation is not a legal document. The Corporation does not warrant that the
information contained in this consolidation is current. Certified copies of the original
bylaws should be consulted to ensure accurate, current bylaw provisions.
Amending Bylaw
Date of Adoption
Bylaw No. 380
September 7, 1982
Bylaw No. 622
April 7, 2008
The bylaw numbers in bold in the margin of this consolidation refer to the last bylaw
that amended each section of the principal bylaw: "Village of Qualicum Beach Traffic
Bylaw No. 225, 1970".
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THE CORPORATION OF THE VILLAGE OF QUALICUM BEACH
BYLAW NO. 225
The Corporation of the Village of Qualicum Beach, in open meeting assembled, enacts
as follows:
1.
2.
Village
This by-law may be cited as "The Village of Qualicum Beach Traffic Bylaw
No. 225".
In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires, the expressions and
definitions contained within the Motor Vehicle Act, the Motor Carrier Act, the
Highway Act and the Municipal Act, shall be applicable and these additional local
municipal interpretations shall prevail throughout:
shall mean The Corporation of the Village of Qualicum Beach and
the territory thereof;
Council
Lane
Parade
Peace Officer
Person
shall mean the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Village
of Qualicum Beach;
shall mean every land, 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; but does not include a highway
within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Act;
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;
shall mean every person, as defined as such under the Motor
Vehicle Act, and shall also mean a person appointed by the Council
to enforce the provisions of this bylaw;
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 feminine, and the converse thereof;
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Private Road
shall mean every road or driveway the title to or possession of
Or Driveway
which is not vested in the Crown or in the Village of Qualicum
Beach;
Town Parkade
shall mean the parking area, including accesses, stairways, and
stairwells, located beneath the Municipal Offices building located at
660 Primrose Street, Qualicum Beach, B.C.
(622)
W_grks
shall mean the Municipal employee of the Village or any other
Superintendent
person for the time being authorized to carry out the duties ascribed
to the said Works Superintendent under provisions of this or any
other bylaw of this Village.
3.
Every person operating, driving or propelling any vehicle or riding or propelling
any bicycle, or walking, traveling or standing in, upon or on any highway or
sidewalk, or riding any horse or other animal shall comply with any lawful
direction, command, or order when made, required, demanded or signaled 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.
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 highway 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 bylaw, 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 bylaw
by the laying of an information when necessary.
7.
The Council shall determine and designate the location of all traffic control
devices, and may authorize and appoint the Works Superintendent 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 bylaw, 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 the bylaw, or any other bylaw of this
Village.
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9.
The Council may, by resolution, close to traffic or any class of traffic, any
highway or any portion of any highway, excluding arterial highways, for such time
or for such periods of time as may be deemed necessary.
10.
The Works Superintendent, Fire Chief, Deputy Fire Chief, or Peace Officer, or
any other persons specifically authorized by Council, may erect or place a
temporary traffic control device, at any time or place within the Village 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 Superintendent may erect or place, or 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
(b) 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 bylaw 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
highway or portion thereof to traffic, it shall be unlawful for any driver to
pass beyond such traffic control device, or to enter such closed highway
or portion thereof;
(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 bylaw or any other bylaw
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.
13.
(1)
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;
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(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
stopping zones, or loading zones.
14.
The Council may for the better regulation of traffic cause to be placed on any
highway movable 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 of 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 highways 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 highways or parts of highways 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 highways or parts of highways signs indicating that vehicles shall
park at an angle with the curb or road edge;
(2)
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
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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
highway on which signs have been placed to indicate angle parking.
17.
(1)
The Council may designate highways or parts of highways 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 highways or parts of
highways;
(2)
No persons 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 onto 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;
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(iii)
displaying signs;
(iv)
selling flowers, fruit, vegetables, sea foods, or other
commodities or articles;
0)
Alongside or opposite a highway 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;
(I)
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 bylaw 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;
(3)
No person shall remove a vehicle that is not lawfully under his control into
any of the places mentioned in subsection (1)
(4)
No person shall enter or remain in the Town Parkade except:
(a)
The owner or driver of a vehicle for the purpose of parking that
vehicle at, or removing that vehicle from, the Town Parkade, or for
the purpose of attending at that vehicle while it is parked at the
Town Parkade;
(622)
(b)
The passenger of a vehicle referred to in subsection (a), while that
vehicle is being parked at, remains parked at, or is being removed
from the Town Parkade.
(622)
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19.
For the better regulation of traffic the Council may place or cause to be placed
marks or lines upon the surface of any highway or highways indicating the
spaces or portions of such highway or highways 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 highway 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
(380)
Town, unless it is attached to a vehicle capable to towing it;
20.
(2)
No motor vehicle of any kind whatsoever shall remain parked on any
(380)
highway of the Town for continuous period of more than twenty-four (24)
hours;
20.
(3)
No person shall park any vehicle having a gross vehicle weight of 4500 kg (380)
or more, or a vehicle or trailer having an overall length exceeding 7
metres, for a period longer than two hours on any Street, Toad, or Lane in
the Town of Qualicum Beach.
20.
(4)
Except where otherwise directed by a peace officer, the driver shall not
(380)
stop, stand or park a vehicle on that side and portion of any highway
which abuts 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, and it shall be the responsibility of
the Works Superintendent to ensure that signs clearly indicating the
restricted parking are erected and maintained adjacent to schools.
21.
(1) The provisions of this bylaw 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 vehicle are actually engaged in
works of necessity requiring them to be stopped, to stand, or park,
in contravention of such provisions, provided however, the burden
of proof shall be upon the operator of such vehicle to establish the
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necessity of the operation which produced the contravention of the
parking regulation as set down by this bylaw.
22.
SPEED LIMIT IN THE VILLAGE:
The speed limit in all lanes throughout the Village shall be not more than twenty
(20) miles per hour, for all traffic.
23.
NOISE MAKING DEVICES:
No person shall operate upon any motor vehicle or any vehicle, any calliope,
loudspeaker, or noise-making device upon the highways of this 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 crossing;
(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;
(3)
A Member of a school patrol may control the movement of traffic at such
designated school crosswalks by exhibiting a manual 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:
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(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 let allow to flow any noxious, offensive, or filthy water
or substance on or upon any highway;
(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 highway
or sidewalk which will obstruct or impede traffic thereon or deface or injure
such highway or sidewalk;
(3)
Remove a wrecked or damaged vehicle from any highway without also
removing glass or other injurious substances dropped upon the highway
from such vehicle;
(4)
Camp, either by day or night on any highway;
(5)
Make any fire on any highway, or 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 highway in
such manner that any of the same shall rest upon or come in contact with
the surface of such highway, or to use any drag or stone-boat upon the
highways in the Village;
(9)
Haul or convey any load, or material of any kind, on or through any
highway in the Village in any vehicle in such a manner as to permit or
allow any portion of such load to overhang the rear or side of the said
vehicle and drag upon the surface of the highway.
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.
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 of or along-side any premises occupied by him for
the purpose of display or for any purpose except in the actual course of receipt or
delivery; or on any portion of any sidewalk for the purpose of measuring or
packing or unpacking goods, wares or merchandise.
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29.
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
highway, or dig or make any excavation in, on, or under any highway within the
Village for any purpose whatsoever without having first obtained the written
permission of the Works Superintendent to do so; and it shall be the duty of any
person having obtained such permission to restore the highway and leave it in as
good repair as before such breaking, tearing up, removing, digging, or
excavation, and the same shall be done under the direction and supervision of
the Works Superintendent, and to his satisfaction, and every person to whom
permission as aforesaid shall be granted, shall erect and maintain a good and
sufficient fence, railing or barrier, a suitable and sufficient red or amber light
during the night, and shall take such further care and precaution as the Works
Superintendent 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
Superintendent, before giving any such permission to take from every person,
security that he will perform all the obligations imposed upon him by the bylaw or
any other bylaw of the Village relating thereto; such security as aforementioned
shall be in a form acceptable to the Council.
30.
Every person who shall make any excavation for any purpose adjoining or
adjacent to, any highway within the Village shall build and maintain a good and
sufficient fence or other barrier along the line of such highway, so as to guard
such excavation, and protect and guard persons, horses, and vehicles traveling
along such highway against danger, risk, or accident by reason of such
excavation.
31.
No person shall erect or maintain any doorstep, porch, railing or other projection
or obstruction into or on any highway in the Village without first obtaining a permit
from the Council therefore. Awnings shall not be placed or suspended over any
part of the highway unless the lowest portion of such awnings is at least seven
(7) feet above the sidewalk of said highway.
32.
The Works Superintendent is hereby authorized to remove any object or thing
which is an obstruction to the free use of any highway 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 any way relieve from
responsibility or liability any person guilty of any infraction of any of the provisions
of this bylaw or any other bylaw of the Village.
33.
(1)
No person shall operate or use any vehicle having wheels, tires or treads,
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constructed or equipped with projecting spikes, cleats, ribs, clamps,
flanges, lugs or other attachments to projections which extend beyond the
tread traction surface of the wheel, tire or track, upon any highway in the
Village.
(2)
Notwithstanding subsection (1) hereof, it shall be lawful for any person to
drive or operate on a highway any vehicle having tires equipped with studs
as permitted by the Motor Vehicle Act and Regulations.
34.
No person shall remove any earth, rock, boulders, gravel, sand or turf from any
highway, without first having obtained a permit in writing from the Council, or
from any officer authorized by said Council to issue such permits, upon such
terms, conditions and regulations as shall be specified in the permit.
35.
No person shall form part of a group of persons congregated on a highway or
sidewalk in such manner as to obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or
vehicles, except with written permission of the Council.
36.
No person shall do anything which will direct the attention of persons and cause
them to congregate in a group upon any highway or sidewalk 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 or injury from traffic, except with
the written permission of the Council.
37.
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 one
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 hereinafter provided;
(2)
No parade shall be held unless application therefore has been made in
writing to the Village Clerk 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;
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(4)
The Village Clerk may issue a permit for a parade, subject to any terms he
may impose as to time, route, or otherwise, and 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 of no
effect.
38.
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.
39.
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 further that it shall be lawful for the Works
Superintendent 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 any purpose whatsoever upon such terms and conditions as may be
specified in the permit.
40.
(1)
Any chattel, vehicle or obstruction occupying any portion of a highway or
public place, so that it 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 any
chattel, vehicle or obstruction stopped, standing or parked in contravention
of the provisions of the "Motor Vehicle Act: or this by-law, or any other
bylaw of the Village, shall be deemed to be unlawfully occupying a portion
of the said highway or public place as the case may be.
(2)
Any member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Qualicum
Volunteer Fire Department or an Officer appointed by Council under the
provisions of this bylaw 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 shall immediately report the
matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 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 thereof, 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
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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 bylaw 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
bylaw 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 royal Canadian Mounted Police 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.
41.
PENALTIES:
Any person contravening or committing any breach of, or committing any offence
against, any of the provisions of this bylaw or of the regulations or orders issued
under this bylaw, or refusing, omitting, or neglecting to fulfill, observe, carry out or
perform any duty or obligation imposed by this bylaw, or by the regulations or
orders created hereunder is liable on summary conviction, to a fine of not more
than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding
sixty (60) days, or both.
42.
Village of Qualicum Beach Traffic Regulation By-law No. 87, 1956 is hereby
repealed.
43.
This bylaw shall come into force and take effect upon the date of its registration
in the office of the Inspector of Municipalities.
READ a first time the
day of
, 1970.
READ a second time the
day of
, 1970.
READ a third time the
day of
, 1970.
RECONSIDERED and ADOPTED the
day of
1970.
Clerk
Mayor