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The Corporation of the Township of Blandford-Blenheim
BY-LAW NUMBER 2185-2020
A By-law to Regulate Traffic and Parking on Highways Under the
Jurisdiction of the Township of Blandford-Blenheim
WHEREAS, Section 210, Subsection 131 of the Municipal Act, RSO 1990 Chapter M.45 and
amendments thereto, provide that councils of all municipalities may pass by-laws for the
purpose of prohibiting or leaving of motor vehicles on private property without the consent of
the owner or occupants of the property and on property owned or occupied by the municipality.
AND WHEREAS, Section 40, Subsection 1 of the County of Oxford Act, RSO 1990 Chapter
C.42, provides that area municipalities may pass by-laws for the regulation of parking.
NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Blandford-Blenheim
enacts as follows:
1. INTERPRETATION
In th is By-Law
a) Corporation means, Corporation of the Township of Blandford-Blenheim;
b) Highway includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway,
driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct, or trestle, designed and intended for,
or used by, the general public use for the passage of vehicles and includes
the area between the lateral property lines thereof;
c) Intersection means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection
of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or
more highways that join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway
crosses the other;
d) Motor Vehicle includes an automobile, motorcycle, and any other vehicle
propelled or driven other than by muscular power;
e) Official Sign means a sign approved by the Ministry of Transportation of
Ontario
f) Park or parking when prohibited means the standing of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, except when standing temporarily for the purpose of and
while actually engaged in loading or unloading or merchandise or
passengers;
g) By-Law Enforcement Officer(s) means a person or persons empowered by
the Municipal Council to enforce the various By-Laws of the Township and to
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carry into effect the provisions of any act of the legislature to be enforced by
the Municipality;
h) Police Officer means a member of the Ontario Provincial Police;
i) Pedestrian includes a person afoot and an invalid or child in a wheelchair or
carriage;
j) Roadway means that part of the highway is improved, designed or originally
used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and, where a
highway included two or more separate roadways, the term "roadway" refers
to any one roadway separately and not all of the roadways collectively;
k) Stand or Standing when prohibited or regulated, means the halting of a
vehicle, whether occupied or not, except for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging passengers;
I) Storer has the meaning given to it under the Repair and Storage Liens Act
R.S.O. 1990, c.R.25
m) Stop or Stopping when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, even
momentarily, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid
conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a constable or
other police officer or of a traffic control sign or signal;
n) Township means all lands within the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the
Township of Blandford-Blenheim;
o) Traffic Control Signal means any device, manually, electronically, or
mechanically operated for the regulation or control of traffic;
p) Vehicle includes a motor vehicle, motor assisted bicycle, trailer, traction
engine, farm tractor, road building machine and any vehicle drawn, propelled
or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does not
include a motorized snow vehicle, the cars of electric or steam railways
running only upon rails;
q) Commercial Motor Vehicle means a motor vehicle having permanently
attached thereto a truck or delivery body and includes ambulances, hearses,
casket wagons, fire apparatus, buses, and tractors used for hauling purposes
on the highways;
r) Heavy Truck means a commercial motor vehicle, having a weight when
unloaded of 4.6 tonnes (4600 kilograms) or more, but does not included a
passenger vehicle, an ambulance, or a vehicle of the Police or Fire
department;
s) Boulevard refers to municipally owned property within the public right-of-way
extending between the curb or edge of the roadway and the nearest limit of
the municipal road allowance, exclusive of any sidewalks or curb located
therein;
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t) Road Allowance means the portion of the untraveled roadway that measures
1 O meters (33 feet) from the centre of the roadway and includes the shoulder
of the roadway;
2. Where any expression of time occurs or where any hour or period of time is stated, the time
referred shall be the time currently in effect within the time zone commonly known as the
"Eastern Time Zone".
3. ENFORCEMENT
1. Provisions of this By-Law shall be enforced by the By-Law Enforcement Officer(s)
duly appointed by the Council of the Township of Blandford-Blenheim and/or OPP.
4. GENERAL STOPPING AND PARKING RESTRICTIONS
1. No person shall park or stop any vehicle on any highway or portion thereof except as
follows:
a) Where there is a raised curb on the right side of the roadway, having regard
to the direction such vehicle was proceeding, with its right, front and rear
wheels parallel to and not more than 300 mm out from the curb. In no
circumstances shall a vehicle mount the raised curb and park or stop to the
right of the raised curb;
b) Where there is no curb or a rolled curb, with the right front and rear wheels
parallel to and as near to the right hand limit of the highway as is practicable
without stopping or parking on a sidewalk or footpath or on any part of the
highway where grass is grown or which is not intended for the use of vehicles.
2. No person shall on a highway stop or park a vehicle in any of the following places;
a) On or over a sidewalk;
b) Within an intersection;
c) Adjacent to or across the highway from any excavation or obstruction in the
roadway when the free flow of traffic would thereby be impeded;
d) In such a position as will prevent or block the removal of any other vehicle
previously parked;
e) On or over a boulevard;
f) On a roadway adjacent to any stopped or parked vehicle;
3. No person shall on a highway park a vehicle in any of the following places:
a) In front of a driveway or laneway or so as to obstruct vehicles in the use of a
driveway or laneway;
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b) Within 3 metres of a fire hydrant;
c) Within 3 metres of water reservoir;
d) Within 9 metres of an intersecting roadway;
e) Within 15 metres of any level crossing or a railway;
f) In front on an entrance to or exit from any building or enclosed space in which
persons may be expected to congregate in large numbers;
g) Alongside the tracks of any railway;
h) In front of the entrance to any place where goods or merchandise are
regularly delivered or removed;
i) In such a position as will prevent the removal of any other vehicle previously
parked.
4. Where appropriate signs are erected and are on display, no person shall on any
highway park any vehicle:
a) Within 15 metres of an intersection;
b) Within 30 metres of an intersection controlled by traffic signals;
c) Within 7.5 metres of any fire station entrance on the side of the highway on
which the fire station is located or within 30 metres of such fire station on the
opposite side of the roadway.
5. NO PARKING
1. Where official signs are erected and are on display no person shall park a vehicle on
any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in Columns 1, 2
and 3 of Schedule "A" to this By-Law.
6. RESTRICTED PARKING
1. Where official signs are erected and are on display no person shall park a vehicle on
any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in Columns 1, 2
and 3 of Schedule "B" of this By-Law during the times or days set out in Column 4 of
the said schedule.
7. SPECIAL CONDITIONS/WINTER PARKING
1. No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle on any Township maintained
highway within the Township between the hours of 7:00am and 5:00pm of the same
day, during the winter control season commencing on the 1st day of November in
each calendar year and continuing until the 31 st day of March of the year following.
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2. No person shall park or leave standing any vehicle on any Oxford County
maintained highway within the Township between the hours of 2:00am and 6:00am
of the same day, during the winter control season commencing on the 1 st day of
November in each calendar year and continuing until the 3P 1 day of March of the
year following.
8. PARKING IN MUNICIPAL PARKING LOTS
1. No person shall park, leave standing, or abandon a vehicle unattended in any
parking area owned or leased by the Municipality for public parking purposes for a
period in excess of seven (7) days;
2. No person shall park, leave standing, or abandon a Commercial Motor Vehicle
unattended in any parking area owned or leased by the Municipality for public
parking purposes at any time.
9. REMOVAL AND IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES
1. No person shall park, leave standing, or abandon a vehicle unattended on any
highway within the Township for a continuous period of time in excess of forty-eight
(48) hours.
2. Upon discovery or notification that a vehicle is parked or has been abandoned or left
unattended in the contravention of Section 8(a) of this By-Law, the investigating
officer shall note in writing and filed for possible future reference the following
information:
a) Make and model of the vehicle;
b) Location of the occurrence;
c) Date and time of the investigation;
d) License number of the vehicle, if any;
e) Name of the investigating officer and any other person who may have been in
attendance as an observer.
At the time of completing the above-mentioned report, the officer shall affix a written
notice to the said vehicle in which it is noted that the vehicle may be removed and
placed in storage, at the owner's expense, if not removed within forty-eight (48)
hours from the date and time the notice was issued.
3. Where the said vehicle is left parked, standing, unattended or abandoned in excess
of the forty-eight (48) hour time period stated in the "Notice" provided under Section
8(b) herein, a duly authorized By-Law Enforcement Officer of the Township may
cause such vehicle to be moved or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place
and all costs and charges for removing, care and storage thereof, if any, are a lien
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upon the vehicle and no such vehicle shall be released or returned to the owner
thereof until all such costs and charges, if any, have been paid in full;
4. In addition to any other remedy provided for this By-Law, where a vehicle is parked
or left standing in contravention of Section 7 of this By-Law or if a vehicle has been
parked or left standing in such a manner so as to obstruct the entrance or exit to a
fire station, the By-Law Enforcement Officer or Police Officer may cause such
vehicle to be moved or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place and all costs
and charges for the removing, care and storage thereof, if any, are a lien upon the
vehicle and no such vehicle shall be released or returned to the owner thereof until
all such charges and costs, if any, have been paid in full;
5. Where a vehicle has been moved or taken to and placed or stored (impounded) in a
suitable place and costs and charges have been incurred therewith, and where the
owner refuses or fails to pay such costs or charges within sixty (60) days upon
receipt of notice from the storer, the storer may proceed to dispose of the said
vehicle pursuant to the provisions of the Repair & Storage Liens Act, R.S.O. 1990,
c.R.25.
10. PENALITIES AND WORDING OF INFRACTION NOTICE
1. The words or expressions set out in Column 1 of the Schedule C may be used by
the By-Law Enforcement Officer or a Police Officer in a Certificate of Parking
Infraction, Parking Infraction Notice or Notice of Impending Conviction to designate
the offence in the provision set out opposite thereto in Column 2 of Schedule C.
2. Any person who is found in violation of Sections 4 to 7 inclusive of this By-Law is
guilty of an offence and is liable to pay the fine set out in Column 3 of the Schedule
C opposite to the offence described in Column 1 for each offence if paid out to the
Court, or an amount fixed and approved by the Provincial Chief Judge, inclusive of
the costs and surcharges if the charge proceeds under Part II of the Provincial
Offences Act R.S.O. 1990, c. P33 as the same may be amended from time to time;
3. All penalties imposed by a judicial official are recoverable under the Provincial
Offences Act together with such costs, expenses and surcharges as are imposed
thereunder;
4. Any person charged under the By-Law may make a payment as shown on the
Parking Infraction Notice. Payment may be made at the Township of Blandford-
Blenheim office within the time period on the Parking Infraction Notice and payrr:ient
shall be accepted in full satisfaction of the charge and no further proceedings will be
taken;
5. Any person charged under this By-Law may make an early voluntary payment within
fourteen (14) days of the date in which the ticket was issued for a discounted fine.
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11.GENERAL
1. Schedule "A", "B'', "C" inclusive of this By-Law shall form part of the By-Law;
2. Where a vehicle has been left parked, stopped or standing in contravention of this
By-Law, the owner of the vehicle is guilty of an offence, even though the owner was
not the driver of the vehicle at the time of the contravention of this By-Law, and is
liable for the applicable fines unless, at the time of the offence, the vehicle was in the
possession of another person without the owner's consent.
12.PAYMENT OF FEES
1. Every person responsible for the payment of any and all fees, costs and fines under
this by-law shall make such payment in full upon demand by the Corporation.
2. The payment of any fees and charges as required under this by-law does not
constitute partial or full payment of any fines imposed by a court of competent
jurisdiction for an offence committed under this or any other by-laws.
3. Unpaid parking tickets will be forwarded to the Ministry of Transportation and may
result in plate denial.
13.REPEAL
1. The following Township of Blandford-Blenheim by-laws are hereby repealed:
By-Law 1250-98
By-Law 1587-2009
14. SHORT TITLE
1. This By-Law shall be referred to as the "Parking Control" By-Law.
READ A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED ON THIS 21ST DAY
OF OCTOBER, 2020.
MAYOR: Mark Peterson
Rodger Mordue, CAO/Clerk
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SCHEDULE "A" TO BY-LAW 2185-2020,
as amended: Parking Control
NO PARKING AT ANY TIME
Section
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Highway
Side or Sides
From
To
1
Platt Street East
East and West
Mill Street East
Young Street East
Platts ville
2
Mill Street East
North and South
Platt Street North
Walter Street
Plattsville
3
Baird Street South
East
South Limit of 68 Baird
South Limit of 172
Bright
Street South
Baird Street South
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SCHEDULE "B" TO BY-LAW 2185-2020,
as amended: Parking Control
RESTRICTED I SPECIAL CONDITIONS I WINTER PARKING
Item
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Hiahwav
Side or Sides
From
To
Time/Date
1
Oxford Street
North and South
300m West of
150m East of Duke
2:00am-6:00am
Drumbo
Morrow Street
Street
Nov 1 to Mar 31
2
Wilmot Street
East and West
Maitland Street
Peterson Street
2:00am-6:00am
Drumbo
Nov 1 to Mar 31
3
Albert Street
North and South
Hofstetter Road
?Om west of Hume
2:00am-6:00am
Plattsville
Street
Nov 1 to Mar 31
4
Douro Street
North and South
Albert Street
Isabella Street
2:00am-6:00am
Plattsvil/e
Nov 1 to Mar 31
5
Main Street
East and West
Oxford Road 2
Roper Street
2:00am-6:00am
Princeton
Nov 1 to Mar 31
6
Mechanic Street
East
Oxford Street East
Blenheim District
7:00am-5:00pm
Drumbo
Public School
Monday to Friday
7
Albert Street West
North
Fennel Street
Samuel Street
7:00am-5:00pm
Plattsville
Monday to Friday
8
Albert Street West
South
Fennel Street
River Road
7:00am-5:00pm
Plattsville
Monday to Friday
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River Road
East and West
Albert Street West
Mill Street West
7:00am-5:00pm
Plattsville
Monday to Friday
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Wilmot Street South
East
121 m South of Oxford
155m South of
7:00am-5:00pm
Drumbo
Street
Oxford Street
Monday to Friday
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Wilmot Street South
West
128m South of Oxford
148m South of
7:00am-5:00pm
Drumbo
Street
Oxford Street
Monday to Friday
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Item
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
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TOWNSHIP OF BLANDFORD-BLENHEIM
By-Law # 2185-2020
Parking Control
SCHEDULE "C" TO BY-LAW 2185-2020,
as amended: Parking Control
PART II PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision Creating
Short Form Wording
or Defining
Set Fine
Offences
Parked or stopped on/over a
Section 4.2(a)
$50.00
sidewalk
Parked or stopped within an
Section 4.2(b)
$100.00
intersection
Parked or stopped across
the highway from excavation
Section 4.2(c)
$50.00
or obstruction that impedes
traffic flow
Parked so as to block other
Section 4.2(d)
$50.00
vehicles
Parked on or over a
Section 4.2(e)
$50.00
boulevard
Parked so as to obstruct the
Section 4.3(a)
$50.00
use of a driveway/laneway
Parked too close to a fire
Section 4.3(b)
$50.00
hydrant
Parked too close to a water
Section 4.3(c)
$50.00
reservoir
Parked too close to an
Section 4.3(d)
$50.00
intersection
Parked too close to any level
Section 4.3(e)
$50.00
crossinq/railwav
Parked alongside the tracks
Section 4.3(g)
$50.00
of a railway
Parked within 15 metres of
Section 4.4(a)
$50.00
an intersection
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Column 4
Early Voluntary
Payment (within
14 days)
$40.00
$90.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
$40.00
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TOWNSHIP OF BLANDFORD-Bl-ENHEIM
By-Law # 2185-2020
Parking Control
Parked within 30 metres of
an intersection controlled by
Section 4.4(b)
traffic siqnals
Parked within 7.5 metres of
any fire station on the same
Section 4.4(c)
side of road
Parked within 30 metres of
any fire station on the
Section 4.4(c)
opposite side of road
Parked in an area prohibited
Section 5.1
by siqns
Parked on highway between
restricted hours during winter
Section 7.1
season
Parked on odd-numbered
side of street from 1st to 15th
Section 8.1
of the month
Parked on even-numbered
side of street from 15th to 31 st
Section 8.2
of the month
Parked in a municipal
parking lot longer than seven
Section 9.1
(7) days
Parking a commercial motor
vehicle in a municipal
Section 9.2
parkinq lot
Parked longer than 48 hours
Section 10.1
on hiqhway
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$50.00
$40.00
$100.00
$90.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
$50.00
$40.00
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