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The Corporation of the Township of Elizabethtown
By-law Number 03-21
A BY-LAW TO REGULATE WINTER PARKING IN THE TOWNSHIP OF
ELIZABETHTOWN-KITLEY
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Whereas the Municipal Act 2001, Section 100 states a local
regulate or prohibit parking or leaving of a motor vehicle on
occupied by the Municipality.
unicipality may
nd not owned or
And Whereas the Municipal Act 2001, Section 101(4), states if a municipality
passes a by-law under section 100 for regulating or prohibiting the parking or leaving
lity, it may provide for the
removal and impounding of any vehicle at the owser’s expense.
And Whereas various provisions of the Highway Traffic Act, Chapter 8, R.S.O
1990, as amended, apply to by-law passed by the Council of local municipalities
respecting the prohibition, regulating and/controlling of the parking, standing, and
stopping of vehicles on highways;
Now Therefore the Council of th
enacts as follows:
Corporation of the Township of Elizabethtown
1. DEFINITIONS
a) Authorized Emergeficy Vehicle means:
i. A firefighter vehicle while proceeding to or returning from a fire or
emergency call;
ii. A vehigle used by a person in the lawful performance of his duties
as a police officer or firefighter;
iii. An ambulance or cardiac arrest emergency vehicle while
responding to an emergency call or being used to transport a patient
oy injured person in an emergency situation; or
n emergency vehicle of a public or private utility, or Federal,
Provincial, or Municipal Department when such a vehicle is being
used in the performance their duties.
b) Hi includes a common and public highway, street, avenue,
rkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, designed and
ntended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles, and
includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof.
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c) Motor Vehicle: includes an automobile, motorcycle, motor assisted
bicycle, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by
muscular power; but does not include a motorized snow vehicle or the cars
of which only run upon rails. “Vehicle” shall have a like meaning.
d) Officer: means a member of the Ontario Provincial Police or a person
authorized by the Council of the Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley as a
Municipal Law Enforcement Officer.
e) 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 merchandise or
passengers.
f) Trailer: means a vehicle that is at any time drawn upon a highway by a
motor vehicle except an implement of husbandry, a mobile home, another
motor vehicle or any device or apparatus not designed to transport persons
or property, temporarily drawn, propelled or moved upon such highways,
and except a sidecar attached to a motorcycle, and shall be considered a
separate vehicle and not part of the motor vehicle by which it is drawn.
No person shall park or permit to be parked any motor vehicle or trailer on any
highway between the hours of 12:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. during the months of
November, December, January, February, March, and to the 15" of April inclusive
in one year (winter season) within the Township of Elizabethtown-Kitley.
Whenever an Officer or any person acting under the officer’s instructions finds a
vehicle on the highway in contravention to the provisions of this By-Law, he/she
may move the vehicle at the expense of the owner.
The provisions of this By-Law shall not apply to any authorized emergency
vehicle as defined in this By-Law.
The Township Public Works Supervisor is hereby authorized and directed to erect
and maintain such signs as are required give effect to this by-law.
Every person who contravenes any provision of this By-Law is guilty of an offence
and on conviction is liable to a fine as provided for in the Provincial Offences Act,
Chapter P.33, Section 61, R.S.O. 1990.
7. By-Law number 1799 of the former Township of Elizabethtown is hereby repealed
in its entirety.
8. This By-Law will come into effect upon the final reading thereof and may be
referred to as “The winter parking By-Law”.
2 Read a First and Second time this_12" day of _ May , 2003.
Read a Third time and finally Passed this A day of nace , 2003.
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