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TRAFFIC BY-LAW
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
Pursuant to the power delegated by the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure
under section 189 of the Highway Traffic Act, and pursuant to the authority conferred by
section 8 (g) of the Towns and Local Service Districts Act, the Town of Conception Bay
South has made the following Traffic By-Law.
_____________________
DARRIN BENT
MAYOR
1.
TITLE
This By-law shall be known and cited as "The Town of Conception Bay South
Traffic By-Law."
2.
DEFINITIONS
In this By-law, the following words, unless the context otherwise requires, shall
have the following meanings:
(a)
"Bus" means a motor vehicle designed or used for the transportation of
passengers with a seating capacity of 10 or more in addition to the driver,
but excluding those motor vehicles when used for personal transportation
by the owner or with the owner's permission.
(b)
"Commercial Motor Vehicle" means a vehicle designated to carry goods
and persons and includes a bus, a school bus, a truck (excluding vehicles
1 ¼ tones and under), a truck trailer and other motor vehicles designed
for commercial use but does not include camper type vehicles designed or
adopted exclusively for recreational purposes.
(c)
"Council" means the Town Council of Conception Bay South.
This is not the official version.
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(d)
"Crosswalk" means:
(i)
Any part of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs or by lines or other
markings on the surface; or
(ii)
The part of a roadway at an intersection that is included within the
connection of the lateral lines of the sidewalks of the opposite sides
of a highway, measured from the curbs, or in the absence of curbs,
from the edge of the roadway.
(e)
"Driveway" means a clearly defined private roadway, path or passage or a
like opening or space which is wide enough, but not wider than is
necessary for the passage of a motor vehicle, whereby the owner,
occupier or user of property has vehicular access from the roadway to a
point within the property.
(f)
"Emergency Vehicle" means:
(i)
A motor vehicle driven by a constable or by a member of the police
branch of any of Her Majesty's Armed Forces or a peace officer
being a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary or the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police where there is an urgent
emergency justifying a rate of speed in excess of any maximum
rate of speed provided for in this By-law;
(ii)
A motor vehicle carrying firefighting equipment in responding to an
alarm of fire;
(iii)
An ambulance responding to a call or transporting a patient where
there is an urgent emergency justifying a rate of speed in excess of
any maximum rate of speed provided for in this By-law; or
(iv)
A motor vehicle where there is an urgent emergency.
(g)
"Highway" means a place or way, including a structure forming part of the
place or way, designed and intended for, or used by the public for the
passage of traffic and includes all the space between the boundary lines
of the place or way.
(h)
"Intersection" means the area enclosed within the prolongation or
connection of the lateral curb lines or if there are no curb lines, the lateral
boundary lines of two or more highways that join one another at an angle,
whether or not one of the highways cross the other.
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(i)
"Motor Vehicle" means a vehicle propelled, driven or controlled otherwise
than by muscular power, other than a trailer or a vehicle running on fixed
rails.
(j)
"By-law Enforcement Officer" means for the purpose of this By-law a
person appointed as a By-law Enforcement Officer under section 278(1) of
the Towns and Local Service Districts Act.
(k)
"Operator" means a person driving a motor vehicle on a highway or who
has the care or control of the motor vehicle on a highway whether in
motion or not.
(l)
"Owner" means:
(i)
The person who holds the legal title to a vehicle; or
(ii)
In the case of a vehicle that is registered, the person in whose
name it is registered.
(m)
"Park" means to permit a vehicle whether occupied or not, to stand
otherwise than temporarily for the immediate purpose of and while actually
engaged in loading or unloading goods or taking up or setting down
passengers or in obedience to traffic By-law or traffic signs or the direction
of a traffic officer.
(n)
"Peace Officer" means a member of the Royal Newfoundland
Constabulary, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, or a park warden
appointed under the Public Service Employment Act (Canada) who is
stationed in the province.
(o)
"Pedestrian" means a person on foot, a handicapped person in a
wheelchair, or a child in a carriage or on a sleigh being pushed or pulled.
(p)
"Persons" means any persons, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
or any organization of any kind.
(q)
"By-law" means Conception Bay South Traffic By-law made under the
authority of the Highway Traffic Act and amendments and the Towns and
Local Service Districts Act.
(r)
"Roadway" means a portion of a highway that is improved, designed, or
ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder
unless the shoulder is paved, and where a highway includes two or more
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separate roadways, the term "roadway" refers to any one roadway
separately and not to all of the roadways collectively.
(s)
"School bus" means a motor vehicle:
(i)
Designed or used to carry 7 or more passengers, in addition to the
driver;
(ii)
Owned, operated by or contracted to a school board or agent of a
school board; and
(iii)
Used to transport children to or from school or to and from places
other than school for the purpose of school related activities.
(t)
"Sidewalk" means that portion of a highway between the curb lines or the
lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines set apart for the
use of pedestrians and includes any part of a highway set apart or marked
as being for the exclusive or intended use of pedestrians and is
considered to include an area of a highway lying between the curb lines or
the lateral lines of a roadway and that portion of a highway set apart for
the use of pedestrians.
(u)
"Stop" when required means the complete cessation of movement.
(v)
"Stop" or "Stand" when prohibited means any stopping or standing of a
vehicle whether occupied or not except when necessary to avoid conflict
with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a traffic officer or
traffic control device or signal.
(w)
"Town" means the Town of Conception Bay South.
(x)
"Traffic" includes vehicles, pedestrians and animals while using a highway
for the purpose of travel.
(y)
"Traffic Officer" means any person appointed by Council to enforce this
By-law, including a By-law Enforcement Officer.
(z)
"Traffic Sign" includes all traffic control signals, warning sign posts,
direction posts, signs, lines, marks or other devices for the guidance or
persons using highways.
(aa) "Vehicle" means a device in, upon or by which a person or property may
be transported or driven upon a highway.
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3.
COUNCIL AUTHORITY
(a)
The Council may cause or permit traffic lights or signs to be placed on or
near any highway within the limits of the Town.
(b)
Traffic lights or signs erected or authorized under subsection (a) of this
By-law may be signs for any of the following purposes;
(i)
To regulate the movement of traffic;
(ii)
To indicate the route to be followed by traffic;
(iii)
To restrict or prohibit the use of any part of any highway, other than
a main highway designed as such by the Minister of Transportation
and Works, within the limits of the Town;
(iv)
To indicate maximum speed limits in any area or on any part of any
highway within the limits of the Town, so that vehicles driven in
excess of such speed shall be taken to have failed to conform to
the indication given by the sign;
(v)
To restrict or prohibit the parking of vehicles in any area or on any
part of any highway within the limits of the Town;
(vi)
To restrict or prohibit temporarily the use of any highway, other than
a main highway designated as such by the Minister of
Transportation and Works, or any part of any highway within the
limits of the Town, whenever, owing to the likelihood of danger to
the public or serious damage to the highway, it appears to the
Council to be necessary; and to limit the loads of vehicles owing to
the condition of the highway if the Council deems it necessary,
provided that the traffic lights or signs shall not apply to any person
granted a permit in writing by the Council to use the highway in
case of an emergency;
(vii)
To warn users of the highway of the need for special caution;
(viii) To convey information to users of the highway within the limits of
the Town;
(ix)
To set out proper pedestrian crossing on any highway within the
limits of the town; and
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(x)
To restrict or reserve specific parking spaces for the sole use of
disabled person.
(c)
Any person who fails to comply with the directions, restrictions,
prohibitions, or warnings given by traffic lights or signs erected in
accordance with this By-law shall be guilty of an offence against this By-
law.
4.
PARKING OFFENCES
(a)
No person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle on a highway so that the
vehicle or any part of it is:
(i)
On a sidewalk or an area generally used by or intended for use by
pedestrians;
(ii)
In front of a public or private driveway or in front of an authorized
loading door designated as such;
(iii)
Within 6 metres of an intersection;
(iv)
Within 1 metre from any fire hydrant;
(v)
Within a crosswalk;
(vi)
Within 6 metres of the approach side of a crosswalk;
(vii)
Within 10 metres upon the approach to any flashing beacon, stop
sign, or traffic-control sign or signal located at any side of a
roadway;
(viii) Within 6 metres either side of the entrance to or exit from a hotel,
church, school, public meeting place, theatre, dance hall or
playground;
(ix)
Within a distance of 20 metres from a bus stop erected under this
By-law, except where otherwise provided by a sign erected under
this By-law;
(x)
Within 7 metres of a driveway entrance to a fire station;
(xi)
Alongside or opposite a street excavation or obstruction when
stopping, standing or parking obstructs traffic;
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(xii)
In a place in contravention of a traffic control device that gives
notice that stopping, standing or parking is there prohibited or
restricted;
(xiii) Parked on the left side of the highway in the direction it is heading,
excepting where such parking is designated by proper signs
erected by Council;
(xiv) Within 150 metres of any site where a fire is in progress unless
permission has been obtained from a police constable, excepting a
fire engine, ambulance, clergy car, police car, medical doctor's car
or nurse's car;
(xv) Parked in such a manner as to interfere with, hinder or obstruct the
normal flow of traffic;
(xvi) Parked on highway property between the curb or edge or the
roadway and the boundary line of the highway;
(xvii) On any property classified as an easement or upon which Council
grants a permit;
(xviii) For the purpose of displaying the vehicle for sale;
(xix) For the purpose of washing, greasing or repairing the vehicle,
except for such repairs as have been necessitated by an
emergency;
(xx) Parked in an area designated as a parking space for disabled
persons only.
(b)
No person shall double park any motor vehicle on any highway within the
limits of the Town.
(c)
No person shall park or stop any vehicle on any roadway unless on the
right hand side of the roadway having regard to the direction in which the
vehicle was proceeding with the right front and rear wheels parallel to and
not more than thirty (30) centimeters from the curb where there is a raised
curb, or where there is no curb or a rolled curb, with the right front and
rear wheels parallel to and as near the right hand limit of the roadway as is
practical without stopping or parking over a sidewalk or footpath or over
any part of the road where grass is grown or which is not intended for the
use of vehicles.
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(d)
No person shall stand, stop or park or drive a vehicle upon any highway or
public area within the Town in contravention to any signs that may be
posted by Council.
(e)
On the day of Regular Garbage collection, as indicated in the Town of
Conception Bay South's Garbage Collection Schedule, no person shall
park an unattended motor vehicle on any street or road reservation that is
scheduled for automated garbage collection between the hours of 7:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
(f)
No person shall park or store a trailer or off-road motor vehicle on any
highway or road reservation in the Town.
(g)
A person shall not park a vehicle upon a highway in a position that it is not
visible to approaching traffic in both directions on the highway for a
distance of 60 metres, except for the purpose of repairing the vehicle
when repairs to the vehicle on the highway are necessary.
5.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES OFFENCES
(a)
The Council is hereby authorized to determine and designate these
streets in the Town, which shall be used by commercial motor vehicles.
(b)
This By-law shall not prohibit:
(i)
The operation of commercial motor vehicles upon any street where
necessary to the conduct of business at a destination point,
provided that streets upon which such traffic is permitted are used
until reaching the intersection nearest the destination point;
(ii)
The operation of an emergency vehicle upon any street in the
Town;
(iii)
The operation of commercial motor vehicle owned or operated by
the Town, Public Utilities or any contractor engaged in the repair,
delivery of materials, maintenance or construction of streets, street
improvements, or street utilities within the Town of Conception Bay
South; or
(iv)
The operation of commercial motor vehicles upon any officially
established detour in the Town of Conception Bay South.
(c)
No person shall park any commercial motor vehicle in any residential zone
in the Town of Conception Bay South, unless a permit for the parking has
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been issued by the Council in conformity with the Conception Bay South
Commercial Motor Vehicle By-Law.
(d)
An application for a permit to park any commercial motor vehicle in any
residential zone shall be made to the Council in such form as prescribed
by the Council and every applicant for a permit shall furnish with the
application such information as Council may require.
(e)
The Council shall attach to the permit such conditions as it deems fit for
the parking of any commercial motor vehicle in a residential zone and may
permit parking for such limited time as it deems fit.
(f)
The driver of a commercial vehicle loading or unloading freight within the
Town shall, if possible, place such vehicle off the highway into some
private parking space; where no alternative loading or unloading point
exists, place such vehicles as near as possible to the curb or side of the
highway and load or unload as quickly as possible, but in no case shall a
driver place a commercial vehicle in such a position as to excessively
hinder or obstruct the normal flow of traffic either vehicular or pedestrian.
6. SNOW CLEARING
(a)
No person shall park any unattended motor vehicle on any highway or
municipal parking area in such a way as to interfere with, hinder or
obstruct snow clearing operations.
(b)
No person shall park an unattended vehicle on any highway or road
reservation within the Town:
(i) Between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 10:00 am during the snow
clearing period
(ii) During a snow storm
(iii) During the 24 hours immediately following a snow storm.
(c)
Any motor vehicle parked contrary to 6 (a) or (b) may be towed away by
Council or their representatives, at the owner's risk and expense, to a
place selected by the Council or person so authorized.
(d)
No person shall deposit or cause or permit to be deposited any snow
and/or ice from driveways, sidewalks, parking lots or any other property,
under their ownership or control, onto any street or road reservation within
the Town.
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7.
OTHER LIMITATIONS
(a)
No structure, object or vehicle, other than a vehicle licensed under the
Highway Traffic Act, shall move over a highway or bridge, within the Town
except with the written approval of Council.
(b)
Notwithstanding subsection (1), no vehicle that is propelled over tracks or
other device, other than tires, shall move over a highway or bridge, within
the Town except with the written approval of Council.
8.
ABANDONED VEHICLES
(a)
When a vehicle:
(i)
Is standing, stopped or parked upon a highway within the Town
limits or bridge in such a position that it may;
(1)
Interfere with the pedestrian or vehicular traffic;
(2)
Constitute a hindrance to the maintenance, repair or
improvement thereof;
(3)
Hinder or impede the ploughing of or removal of snow or ice
therefrom; or
(4)
Hinder or impede the carrying out of any undertaking of the
Council; or
(ii)
Has been apparently abandoned upon a highway within the Town
limits, road reservation, sidewalk, bridge or municipal parking area
for longer than forty-eight (48) hours; or
(iii)
Has been left unattended upon any highway within the Town limits,
sidewalk or bridge in contravention of this By-law,
the Council or any person authorized for the purpose by the Council may
remove that vehicle, at the owner's risk and expense, to a place selected
by the Council or person so authorized.
(b)
The Council may dispose of any vehicle removed and stored under this
By-law, by Public Sale or Auction, if the vehicle is not claimed within ninety
(90) days of removal and storage.
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(c)
Prior to the return of the vehicle to its owner, the owner shall pay the costs
of its removal and storage as determined by the Council and where such
costs are not paid by the owner, the council may sell the vehicle on Public
Sale or Auction to satisfy such costs upon notice to the owner, including
the costs, if any, of or incidental to the Public Sale or Auction.
9.
ANTI LITTER OFFENCES
(a)
A person shall not throw or deposit or cause to be thrown, deposited or left
on a highway, glass, nails, tacks scraps of metal or other material,
rubbish, refuse or waste which may injure tires of vehicles.
(b)
A person who removes a wrecked or damaged vehicle from a highway
shall remove glass or any injurious substance or thing dropped upon the
highway from the vehicle.
(c)
No person shall place any object or structure (including objects or
structures used for street sports), on any street which interferes with the
flow of traffic. Any object or structure so placed may be removed by any
person authorized by Council, at the owner's expense.
10.
OFFENCE
Notwithstanding Section 5 of the Provincial Offence Act, any person who violates
any of the provisions of this By-law, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be
liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than the maximum and not
less than the minimum amount as prescribed for the offence in Schedule "A" to
this By-law and appearing in that Schedule opposite the number or letter or both
of the By-law, subsection or paragraph.
11.
APPLICATION
(a)
No person other than a Peace Officer may use emergency lights on his or
her vehicle to stop a moving vehicle that is engaged in the commission of
an offence under this By-law to apprehend an offender.
(b)
Subject to subsection 11 (a), a Peace Officer, a By-law Enforcement
Officer or a Traffic Officer may enforce this By-law.
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12.
REPEAL OF PREVIOUS REGULATIONS AND AMENDMENTS
All previous Town of Conception Bay South Traffic Regulations and amendments
are repealed.
13.
COMPLIANCE WITH OTHER ACTS AND REGULATIONS
Nothing in this By-law serves to exempt any person from obtaining any license,
permission, permit, authority or approval required by any other regulation of the
Town or any statute or regulation of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador,
and in such cases where more than one regulation or statute applies the more
restrictive regulation or statute shall apply.
14.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This By-law shall come into force on the 22nd day of January, 2025.
In witness whereof the Seal of the Town of Conception Bay South has been affixed
hereto and this By-law has been signed by the Mayor and the Chief Administrative
Officer on behalf of Council on this 22nd day of January, 2025.
Darrin Bent
Brian Crawley
Mayor
Chief Administrative Officer
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SCHEDULE A
Town of Conception Bay South
Schedule of Fines
section
subsection
offence
fine
4
(a)
(i)
Parking on sidewalk
$50.00
(ii)
Parking in front of public or
private driveway
$50.00
(iii)
Parking
within
6
metres
of
intersection
$50.00
(iv)
Parking within 1 metre of fire
hydrant
$50.00
(v)
Parking within a crosswalk
$100.00
(vi)
Parking within 6 metres of a
crosswalk
$50.00
(vii)
Parking within 10 metres of a
traffic control device
$50.00
(viii)
Parking within 6 metres of an
entrance or exit to hotel, church,
school, public meeting place,
theatre, dance hall or playground
$50.00
(ix)
Parking within 20 metres of a bus
stop
$50.00
(x)
Parking within 7 metres of a fire
station
$50.00
(xi)
Parking opposite or beside a
street excavation
$50.00
(xii)
Parking contrary to signs
$50.00
(xiii)
Parking on left side of highway
$50.00
(xiv)
Parking within 150 metres of the
site of a fire
$50.00
(xv)
Parking as to obstruct traffic
$50.00
(xvi)
Parking on highway property
outside curb
$50.00
(xvii)
Parking on property classified as
easement
$50.00
(xviii) Parking on highway to display
vehicle for sale
$50.00
(xix)
Parking on highway for repairs
$50.00
(xx)
Parking in accessible parking
space
$400.00
(b)
Double Parking
$50.00
(c)
Parking away from the curb
$50.00
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(d)
Stop stand or park in area
prohibited by signs
$30.00
(e)
Parking on Highway or road
reservation on garbage collection
day between 7am and 5pm
$50.00
(f)
Parking a trailer or Off-Road
motor Vehicle on a highway
$50.00
(g)
Parking
on
highway
where
vehicle not visible to approaching
traffic
$50.00
5
(c)
Commercial
motor
vehicles
parking
in
residential
zones
without a permit
$100.00
6
(a)
Parking so as to obstruct snow
clearing
$50.00
(b)
(i)
Parking
on
a
highway
or
municipal parking area between
12 midnight and 10:00 am
$50.00
(b)
(ii)
Parking on a highway during a
storm
$50.00
(b)
(iii)
Parking on a highway 24 hours
immediately following a snow
storm
$50.00
(d)
Depositing snow on a street or
road reservation
$50.00
7
(a)
Movement of structure, object or
vehicle not licensed under the
Highway
Traffic
Act
without
Council approval.
$50.00
(b)
Movement of vehicle not on tires
without approval of Council
$50.00
9
(a)
Throwing injurious materials or
rubbish on highway
$50.00
(b)
Failure to remove glass injurious
substance dropped upon the
highway from a wrecked vehicle
$50.00
(c)
Placing object or structure on a
street
$50.00