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TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL
BYLAW NO. 456
A BYLAW TO PROHIBIT TRUCKS TRAVELLING ON ANY STREET
WITHIN THE TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL
OTHER THAN ON THE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE
The Municipal Council of the Town of View Royal, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:
1.
This Bylaw may be cited as the "Truck Route Bylaw, No. 456, 2002".
2.
DEFINITIONS
"BYLAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER" means any persons appointed as such by the Council;
"COUNCIL" means the Municipal Council of the Town of View Royal;
"DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE" means the designated truck route as indicated on Schedule "A"
attached to and forming a part of this bylaw;
"RECREATIONAL VEHICLE" means a vehicular type portable structure without permanent
foundation, which can be towed, hauled or primarily designed as temporary living accommodation for
recreational camping and travel use and including but not limited to travel trailers, truck campers and
self propelled motor homes.
"TOWN" means the Town of View Royal;
"TRUCK" means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the transportation of material goods
and includes a vehicle designed and used primarily for towing other vehicles, and, for the purposes
of clarity, does not include a recreational vehicle, a bus or a crane;
"UTILITY" means gas, water, electrical, telephone, cable companies.
3.
GENERAL REGULATIONS
No person shall drive a truck with a total GVWR over 20,000 kilograms upon any street in the
Town other than on the Designated Truck Route, unless:
(a) during such time as such truck is being used in the making of a delivery in the Town or the
performance of some work or service in the Town or returning from such duties; and
(b) that person is driving towards a location which there is no alternate route to the person's
destination point.
Truck Bylaw, 2002, No.456
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4.
EXCEPTIONS
The following vehicles shall be exempt from this Bylaw:
(a)
Farm vehicles
(b)
Vehicles being used in emergency work by the Town, the Provincial Government,
Federal Government or any of its agencies, contractors working for the Town of
View Royal, a utility company, the Town of View Royal Fire Department or vehicles
of the Canada Post Office.
5.
PENALTY SECTION
Every person who, without lawful excuse, contravenes this bylaw by wilfully doing any act which
forbids, or omitting to do any act which it requires to be done, is guilty of an offence and is liable on
summary conviction to a fine of not less than $100.00 and not more than $300.00 for a first offence
and for each subsequent offence to a fine of not less than $200.00 and not more than $500.00.
6.
SEVERABILITY
If any section, subsection, or paragraph of this Bylaw is found invalid by a decision of a Court of
competent jurisdiction, the invalid section, subsection, or paragraph shall be severed without effect
on the remainder of the Bylaw.
READ A FIRST TIME THIS
22nd
DAY OF
JANUARY , 2002
READ A SECOND TIME THIS
22nd
DAY OF
JANUARY
, 2002
READ A THIRD TIME THIS
18th
DAY OF
NOVEMBER
, 2003
RECONSIDERED, FINALLY PASSED AND ADOPTED BY COUNCIL, SIGNED BY THE MAYOR AND THE
CLERK AND SEALED WITH THE SEAL OF THE TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL THIS 2ND DAY OF
DECEMBER, 2003.
MAYOR
CLERK