Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
· adopted 2008-04-10
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Town of Yarmouth
TRUCK ROUTE BYLAW
Effective: April 10th, 2008 - Amended: April 16th, 2009
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A bylaw respecting the establishment of truck routes for certain trucking motor vehicles within the Town
of Yarmouth.
Be it enacted by the Council of the Town of Yarmouth, under the authority of section 194(4) of the Motor
Vehicle Act, being chapter 293 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia 1989 as amended, as follows:
1.0
This bylaw shall be known as the "Truck Routes Bylaw" of the Town of Yarmouth. This bylaw shall
apply to all areas of the Town of Yarmouth.
2.0
In this bylaw:
a. "Town" means the Town of Yarmouth.
b. "Street" means a public highway, street, lane, road, alley, park, or place including the
bridges thereon and private property that is designed to be and is accessible to the
general public for the operation of a motor vehicle.
c. "Truck" in this bylaw includes:
i.
a motor vehicle designed, used, or maintained primarily for the transportation of
goods, material, or property, and weighing more than three thousand kilograms
(3,000 kg) according to the registration certificate of the vehicle; and
ii.
a tractor, roller, grader, backhoe, pay loader, road building or maintenance
equipment, or construction equipment, other than track type vehicles, regardless
of weight.
d. "Truck Route" or "Route" means a street in the Town approved for the passage of trucks.
3.0
No person shall drive a truck on any street in the Town except as permitted by this bylaw.
4.0
A truck may be operated on a street between the hours of seven o'clock in the morning and seven
o'clock in the evening on those routes ("Daytime Truck Routes") established in Appendix A hereto
annexed.
4.1
A truck may be operated on a street between the hours of seven o'clock in the evening, and seven
o'clock in the morning of the next day on those routes. ("Nighttime Truck Routes") established in
Appendix B hereto annexed.
a. A person may, for the purpose of making a delivery or collection of good or supplying a
service at a location off a truck route and while using truck routes until unable to continue
to do so, drive the truck on those streets forming the most direct accessible connection
between the nearest truck route and the delivery point, collection point or service point
for merchandise or materials, and shall also return to the truck route by those streets
forming the most direct accessible connection.
b. Where the person has a subsequent delivery or collection to make, or subsequent service
to provide, in the same area, they made proceed to make the subsequent delivery or
collection or service before proceeding by the most direct accessible connection to the
nearest truck route.
c. Of any tuck is stored at a location off the truck route, a person may drive the truck to and
from the place where it is stored, and in so doing shall drive it on those streets forming
the most direct, accessible connection between the storage location and a truck route.
5.0
The Town shall erect signed as depicted in Appendix C here to be placed on the truck routes listed
in Appendix A and Appendix B to indicate to drives of trucks the streets permitted to be used as
truck routes.
6.0
The provisions of this bylaw shall not apply to municipal vehicles or public utility vehicles while
actively engaged in maintenance and repair work on town streets or utility appurtenances
included therein, or to Police, Fire Services or Emergency Medical Services vehicles or equipment
engaged in the line of duty.
7.0
Every person who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this bylaw shall be liable
to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and not more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding sixty days or to
both.
Clerk's Annotation for Official Bylaw Book
Date of Adoption: April 10th, 2008
Date of Approval of Amended Bylaw: February 12th, 2009
Date of Approval of Amended Bylaw: April 16th, 2009
I certify that this 'Truck Route Bylaw' was adopted by Council as indicated above.
Town Clerk: Date:
Adopted
Date of First Reading
February 14th, 2008
Notice of Intent
Date of Second Reading
April 10th, 2008
Notice of Approval
Water St
Pleasant St
Starrs Rd
Main St
Parade St
Forest St
Haley Rd
Ellis Rd
Cottage St
Cliff St
Vanc
ou
ver St
Hardscratch Rd
Brooklyn St
Highway 304 Hwy
Chebogue Rd
Main St
Forest St
Appendix A
Daytime Truck Route
Water St
Starrs Rd
Forest St
Haley Rd
Pleasant St
Main St
Cliff St
Hardscratch Rd
Cann St
Chebogue Rd
Main St
Appendix B
Night time Truck Routes
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APPENDIX "e"
Schedule of Regulation Truck Route Signs
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