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TOWN OF MINNEDOSA
PARKING BY-LAW NO. 2612
A BY-LAW TO PROVIDE FOR THE REGULATION OF TRAFFIC AND PARKING OF VEHICLES, TRAILERS
AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES IN THE TOWN OF MINNEDOSA.
WHEREAS a municipality has the direction, control and management of municipal roads within
its boundaries
AND WHEREAS Section 90(1) of The Highway Traffic Act provides for a traffic authority to make
rules or by-laws to regulate and control vehicular and other traffic and the parking thereof within
its jurisdiction;
AND WHEREAS Section 90(2) of The Highway traffic Act provides for the Council of the
municipality to impose penalties for a violation of any such rule or by-law;
AND WHEREAS Section 90(3) of The Highway Traffic Act provides for the Council of a Municipality
to make rules or by-laws applicable to any part of a provincial highway within the Municipality.
AND WHEREAS Section 236(1)(o) of The Municipal Act states:
236(1)without limiting the generality of clause 232(1)(o) (enforcement of By-laws), a By-
law passed under that clause may include provisions:
(b) remedying contraventions of By-law, including
(ii) subject to the regulations, providing for fines and penalties, including
the imposition of a penalty for an office that is in addition to a fine or
imprisonment, so long as the penalty relates to a fee, relate, toll, charge or
cost that is associated with the conduct that gives rise to the offence, or
related to enforcing the By-law.
AND WHEREAS Section 3(2)(a) of the Municipal By-law Enforcement Act states a municipality may
require administration penalties to be paid if the municipality designates the By-law
contraventions that may be dealt with by a penalty notice.
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Town of Minnedosa, deems it necessary and in the best
interests of the municipality to restrict the parking of vehicles and trailers on streets in the Town
of Minnedosa;
THEREFORE the Council of the Town of Minnedosa, in open session duly assembled, enacts as
follows:
1.0 TITLE
This by-law may be referred to as the Traffic and Parking By-law"
2.0 DEFINITIONS
a.
"BY-LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER" means a person appointed or designated
under The Municipal Act to enforce the By-laws of the Municipality and includes a
designated employee or officer under The Planning Act
b.
"DESIGNATED PARKING SPACE" means a space designated by signs or pavement
markings as being for the sole use of motor vehicles displaying a permit and that
is located:
i.
on a highway
ii.
in a public parking lot or facility, or
iii.
in a private parking lot of facility to which the public has access
c.
"MOTOR VEHICLE" means a Motor Vehicle as defined in The Highway Traffic Act.
d.
"PARK" when prohibited, means to stand a vehicle whether occupied or not,
except:
i.
when it is caused to stand temporarily for the purpose of, and while
actually engaged in, loading or unloading, or in obedience to a peace
officer or a traffic control device, and "parking" has a corresponding
meaning;
e.
"PERMIT" means a valid physically disabled person's parking permit issued under
Section 124.3 of The Highway Traffic Act.
f.
"PERSONS" means any individual, firm, company, association, society, corporation
or group.
g.
"SIDEWALK" means a footpath, whether or not paved or improved, that is
intended primarily for the use of pedestrians and that either
i.
forms part of that portion of a highway that lies between the curb line,
or if there is none, the lateral boundary line, of the roadway; and
ii.
the adjacent property lines, or
iii.
the straight production of the adjacent property lines to the curb line
or if there is none, to the lateral boundary lone, of an intersecting
highway, or
iv.
although traffic only and for the purpose of giving access to property
adjacent there to.
h.
"SPECIAL EVENT" means a parade, procession, block party, or such other event
held on a public street, lane or thoroughfare, which will require closure to public
traffic.
i.
"STREET" means a municipal road for public use and includes a road allowance
(including the shoulder), street, lane, thoroughfare, walkway, bridge and
underpass.
j.
"TRAILER" means a vehicle designated for carrying chattels, and for being towed
by a motor vehicle or other vehicle.
k.
"TOWN" means the Town of Minnedosa
l.
"VEHICLE" means a device, in, upon, or by which a person or things or may be
transported or drawn upon a highway and includes:
i. An implement or husbandry that is not a motor vehicle; and
ii. A special mobile machine, but does not include
a. A device designed to be moved by human power or used
exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, or
b. A motorized mobility aid.
TEMPORARY STREET BARRICADES & CLOSURES
3.0
Persons wishing to have a special event on any street or streets in the Town, shall make
application with the Town of Minnedosa, who shall review the application and may
approve or reject the application and so advise the applicant within 10 business days of
date of filing thereof. The application shall include the nature of the special event; the
route intended to be taken, the date and length and the person or persons responsible for
the event. The municipality is hereby empowered to barricade or cause to be barricaded
or erect a sign or remove a sign on any street or portion thereof deemed necessary for
this event. If the event requires public awareness through the media or other means, this
shall be done at the expense of the applicant.
3.1
No person shall park in a public street or lane at such time or manner to obstruct the
performance of scheduled or emergency maintenance work on the public street, road, or
lane. The Town may post, close or detour any such streets, roads or lanes it deems
necessary in order to perform maintenance and/or construction work as necessary from
time to time.
TRAFFIC & PARKING RESTRICTIONS AND REGULATIONS
4.0
No person shall park a vehicle where a sign or painted curb, placed and/or authorized by
the Town, prohibits parking or where a sign has been erected prohibiting the parking of
vehicles during certain hours or days.
4.1
No person shall park a vehicle on a street or road in such a manner that it obstructs the
entrance to a lane or to a driveway or an approach leading into a private premise or public
pathway.
4.2
No person shall park a vehicle within three (3) meters of an intersection.
4.3
No person shall park a vehicle withing three (3) meters from the point of the curb or edge
of the roadway immediately opposite a fire hydrant.
4.4
No person shall park a vehicle within 100 meters of the scene of a fire or emergency.
4.5
No truck with more than two (2) axles, school buses, or semi-trailers of any type, shall
park on any residential street within the Town overnight, notwithstanding that a truck or
trailer may park on a street during the course of loading and unloading. Such loading and
unloading shall be done as quickly as possible and shall not block the street for other
vehicular traffic.
4.6
No person shall operate a truck with more than two (2) axles on a "No Truck Route" street
as designated from time to time except where necessary to conduct business as a delivery
destination point.
4.7
No person shall park a vehicle upon or over a sidewalk or in front of a public pathway
which will obstruct the use of the sidewalk/pathway by pedestrians.
4.8
No person shall stop, stand or park a motor vehicle in a designated parking space for
physically disabled persons, or in a manner that makes a designated parking space
inaccessible, unless the vehicle displays a permit in accordance with The Highway Traffic
Act. And the regulations under the Act.
4.9
No vehicle shall stay parked on a street for a period longer than 72 hours.
4.10
The operation of engine retardant brakes are prohibited within the Town limits unless
otherwise authorized by signage.
4.11
No person shall park on a street or boulevard a travel trailer, camper, recreational vehicle,
utility trailer, or trailer except for the purpose of loading and unloading. A travel trailer,
camper, recreational vehicle, utility trailer or trailer must be removed from the street
within 48 hours and must remain connected to a vehicle during the 48 hours.
4.12
No person shall park on private property other than on a dedicated driveway or parking
pad with a proper approved approach or access off the roadway.
4.13
No person shall park a vehicle or trailer in such a manner that it obstructs another motor
vehicle operators' line of sight approaching intersections.
OFFICERS MARKING PARKED VEHICLES
5.0
An Officer, for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of this or any other By-law
regulation of the Town respecting the parking of vehicles, may make or place a mark upon
any tire of a vehicle which is parked upon a street.
5.1
It shall be an offence for any person to remove, alter, obliterate or deface a mark made or
placed upon a vehicle by an Officer.
ADDITIONAL OFFENSES
6.0
Notwithstanding any traffic citation which may already have been issued with respect to
a vehicle which is found parked, stopped or standing in violation of any parking restriction
contained in this by-law, each additional observed violation or period of violation shall
constitute a separate offence every twenty-four (24) hours after the issuance of the first
traffic citation.
REPEAL
7.0
That by-law no. 2170 be hereby repealed.
DONE AND PASSED by the Council for the Town of Minnedosa duly assembled at Minnedosa, in
the Province of Manitoba, this 14th day of January. A.D. 2025
Mayor
Chief Administrative Officer
Read a first time this 10th day of December A.D. 2024
Read a second time this 10th day of December A.D. 2024
Read a third time this 14th day of January A.D. 2025