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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF MACDONALD, MEREDITH &
ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL
BY-LAW #23-2174
BEING A BY-LAW TO REGULATE TRAFFIC AND PARKING IN THE TOWNSHIP OF
MACDONALD, MEREDITH & ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL.
WHEREAS Section 11 (3) 1. of the Municipal Act 2001 S.O. 2001 c. 25, provides authority for a municipality
to pass By-laws respecting highways including parking and traffic on highways;
AND WHEREAS Section 100-102 of the Municipal Act provides authority for a municipality to regulate
parking on land not owned or occupied by the municipality;
AND WHEREAS the Municipal Corporation of the Township of Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen Additional
deems it desirable to enact a By-law to regulate traffic and parking in the Township of Macdonald, Meredith &
Aberdeen Additional;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Township of Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen Additional enacts as
follows:
DEFINITIONS:
“Authorized Emergency Vehicle” includes ftre department vehicles, police vehicles, ambulances, and any
other emergency vehicles of federal, provincial, or municipal departments or of public or private facilities;
“Authorized Sign” means any sign or traffic control device placed or erected on a highway under the authority
of this By-law for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic and includes official signs;
“By-Law Enforcement Officer” means a Person appointed by By-law by the Council of the Township of
Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen Additional to enforce the By-laws;
“Commercial Motor Vehicle” means a motor vehicle having permanently attached thereto a truck or delivery
body and includes an ambulance, hearses, casket wagons, fire apparatus, busses and tractors used for hauling
purposes on the highway;
“Corner” means the point of intersection of curbs or edge of the portion of the highway used for vehicular
traffic;
“Corporation” means the Corporation of the Township of Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen Additional;
“Council” means the Council for the Corporation of the Township of Macdonald, Meredith & Aberdeen
Additional;
“Designated Disabled Parking Space” means a parking space clearly marked and identified with a sign or
symbol and provided for the exclusive use of motor vehicles operated by or used for conveying a disabled
person and displaying a disabled parking permit in accordance with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act
and the regulations made thereunder;
“Driver” means a person who drives, moves or operates a vehicle on a highway or is in actual physical control
of a vehicle;
“Fire Route” means a private road providing vehicular access to or from a building or structure and designated
as a fire route and shall include any part of a parking lot designated by visible markings or markers as a fire
route;
“Gross Weight” means the combined weight of a vehicle and load;
“Handicapped Permit” means a permit issued by the Ministry of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of
the Highway Traffic Act of Ontario R.S.O. 1990;
“Heavy Vehicle” means a commercial motor vehicle having a gross weight of four and one-half metric tonnes
(5 tons) or more;
“Highway” includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, road, place, crescent, parkway, driveway,
lane, bridge, viaduct or trestle designated and intended for or used by the general public for the passage of
vehicles and includes the total width of the road allowance;
“Intersection” means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or if
none, then the lateral boundary lines of the two or more highways that join one another at an angle whether or
not one highway crosses the other;
“Lane” means the entire width of the roadway surface between property lines at the rear or side of places of
business or residential properties;
“Motor Vehicle” includes an automobile, truck, a motorcycle, a motor assisted bicycle unless otherwise
indicated, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a
street car or other motor vehicle running only upon rails, a power-assisted bicycle, a traction engine, a farm
tractor, a self-propelled implement of husbandry or a road-building machine;
“Motor Vehicle Owner” means the registered owner of a motor vehicle as registered with the Ministry;
“Official Sign” means a sign approved by the Ministry;
“Owner” when used in relation to real property means:
e The registered owner of the real property
« The spouse of a registered owner
e A Person Authorized by the Owner to act on the Owner’s behalf for requesting the
enforcement of this By-law
“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;
“Pedestrian” means any Person afoot and any person in a wheelchair and any children in a wheeled carriage;
“Physically Disabled Person” means a person who is physically disabled in such a way that his or her mobility
is seriously restricted either permanently or temporarily, including, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, a person who uses a wheelchair, crutches, braces or other mobility-assisting devices;
“Police Department” means Ontario Provincial Police Detachment;
“Police Officer” means a police officer who is a member of the Ontario Provincial Police Force;
“Private Road or Driveway” means any private roadway, private driveway, lane, or other means to or egress
from a property, building or structure and it may include part of a parking lot;
“Roadway” means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic,
but does not include the shoulder, and, where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term
“roadway” refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively;
“School Bus Loading Zone” means the part of the highway designated for the use of school buses for loading
and unloading school children;
“Sidewalk” means that portion of a street between the curb lines or lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent
property lines intended for the use of pedestrians;
“Stand or Standing” when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers;
“Stop” means a complete cessation of movement;
“Stop or Stopping” when prohibited, means any stopping of a vehicle even momentarily, whether occupied or
not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the direction of a police
Officer or of a traffic control sign;
“Times” whenever certain hours are named herein, they shall mean standard time or daylight savings time,
whichever shall be in official current use in the Municipality;
“Traffic Control Device” means any sign or roadway, curb or sidewalk marking or other device erected or
placed under the authority of the Town for the purpose of guiding or directing traffic;
“Vehicle” means a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road building machine, bicycle and any
vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power including muscular power, but does not include a
motorized snow vehicle or a street car.
1 Authorized Signs and Traffic Control Devices
1.1
1.2
The Road Superintendent or the By-Law Enforcement Officer of the Corporation is hereby
authorized to place or erect, and to maintain such authorized signs and traffic control devices as
may be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this By-law or as are required to warn or
guide traffic for the safety or convenience of the public.
Unless otherwise permitted herein, no person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of
any highway any sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or
resembles any authorized sign or traffic control device, or which conceals from view or interferes
with the effectiveness of any authorized sign or traffic control device.
2. General Parking and Stopping Requirements
2.1
2.2
Method of Parking and or Stopping-Parallel-Two Way Traffic
a) No person shall park or stop any vehicle on any highway or portion thereof except
as follows:
i) Where there is a raised curb, on the right side of the roadway with
the right front and rear wheels having regard to the direction in
which such vehicle was proceeding, parallel to and not more than
30 centimeters out from such curb;
ii) Where there is a rolled curb or no curb with the right front and rear
wheels parallel to and as near to the right of the roadway as is
practical;
iii) | The provisions of subsection (a) do not apply where angle parking
is permitted.
Where angle parking is permitted, no person shall park a vehicle except at an angle with the
roadway, indicated by appropriate markings or signs, and no vehicle of an overall length of more
than six metres (6m) shall be angle parked.
3. Parking & Stopping Prohibited in Specified Places-Signs Not Required
3.1
No person, at any time shall park or stop any vehicle in any of the following places:
a) Ona sidewalk;
b) Onacrosswalk
c) In front of a public or private driveway
d) Within an intersection
e) Within 3 meters of a fire hydrant
f) Within 9 meters of a crosswalk or intersection:
g) On any street as to obstruct traffic;
h) In the opposite direction of the traffic flow
i) As to double park in such a position as will prevent the convenient removal of any other
vehicle previously parked or standing;
j) In front of the entrance to any place where goods or merchandises are regularly delivered or
removed;
k} Within 15 meters of any level crossing of a railway
1) Not more than thirty centimeters (30 cm) out from a sidewalk;
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m) On any municipal owned property whereon, public parking is not authorized;
n) On any bridge or the approaches thereto;
Parking Prohibited in Specified Places Where Signs are on Display
4.1 Where authorized signs are on display no person shall park any vehicle in any of the following
places:
a) Where designated “No Parking Here to Corner”.
b) Within 2 turning basin at the end of a cul-de-sac;
c) Where signs have been installed and on display restricting time periods;
d) Where designated by a sign as being reserved for the purpose of loading/unloading zones;
e) Where designated by a sign as a “No Parking” area as set out in Schedule “A”
Fire Routes
5.1 No person shall park in a fire route or in such a way as to interfere or obstruct emergency
vehicles from travelling or while providing services.
Parking on Private or Municipal Property
6.1 No person shall park or leave a motor vehicle”
a) On property owned or occupied by the Municipality or any local board thereof, without the
consent of the Municipality or local board;
b) Any vehicle parked or left contrary to this by-law may be removed and/or impounded at its
owner’s expense subject to the limiting provision of this by-law;
c} A vehicle shall be deemed to have been removed if'a towing vehicle has been summoned to
remove it by a person authorized to enforce this by-law;
Parking on Untraveled Portions of Highways;
7.1. No person shall park or leave any vehicle upon any portion of an untraveled highway fora
period exceeding forty-eight (48) hours;
7.2. Vehicles parked or left in contravention of this section may, by an Ontario Provincial Police
Officer or Municipal By-law Enforcement Officer or designate, be removed and impounded at
the expense of the owner thereof;
Accessible Parking for Persous with Disabilities
8.1 Every owner and operator of a parking lot or of a parking facility to which the public has access
must designate parking spaces for accessibility as per Accessibility for Ontarians with
Disabilities Act, 2005 of which a permit has been issued and properly displayed.
8.2 No person shall park, stand or stop a motor vehicle in a designated handicapped parking space
unless a handicapped permit is properly displayed on the vehicle.
Snow Removal
9.1 In order to facilitate the process of snow removal from highways, no person shall park any
vehicle on any highway under the jurisdiction of the Municipality between the hours of 11:00
p.m. to 7:00 a.m. from November |, of each year to April 15 of the following year inclusive with
the exception of authorized emergency vehicles.
9.2. No person shall park in such a manner as to obstruct snow removal.
Pedestrian’s Rights and Duties
10.1 Except where traffic control signals are in operation or where traffic is being controlled by a
police officer, a pedestrian crossing a highway at a place other than a pedestrian crossover shall
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yield the right-of-way to all vehicles upon the roadway, but nothing in this section shall relieve
the driver of a vehicle from the obligation of taking all due care to avoid an accident.
Enforcement
11.1. The provisions of this By-law may be enforced by an Ontario Provincial Police Officer,
Municipal By-law Enforcement Officer or other designate appointed by the municipality.
11.2 Notwithstanding any penalties provided by the By-law, the Enforcement Officer or designate,
upon discovery of any vehicle parked, stopped or standing in contravention of this By-law may
cause it to be moved, or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place and all costs and charges
for removal, care and storage thereof are the responsibility of the owner.
11.3. An Ontario Provincial Officer or Municipal By-law Enforcement Officer, or designate appointed
by the municipality, upon discovery of any vehicle parked, stopped, or standing in contravention
of this By-law may cause it to be moved or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place and
all costs and charges for removal, care and storage thereof are the responsibility of the owner.
11.4 An Ontario Provincial Police Officer or Municipal By-Law Enforcement Officer, or designate
appointed by the municipality, shall enforce this By-law and such officers are not required to
receive a written complaint before enforcing this By-law;
11.5 Notwithstanding the set fine, a voluntary option is provided for early payment within seven (7)
days from the issuance of the violation.
Penalties
12.1. 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. Fines will be set as
per Schedule “B” of this By-law.
Schedules
13.1 Schedules “A” and “B” inclusive, which are attached hereto are hereby made part of this By-law
and shall be constructed herewith.
Severability
14.1 It is hereby declared that each and every of the foregoing provisions of this By-law is severable
and that, if any provisions of this By-law should, for any reason, be declared invalid by any
Court, it is the intention and desire of this Council that each and every of the then remaining
provisions hereof shall remain in full force and effect.
Enactment
15.1. This By-law shall take effect on October 1, 2023.
15.2. That By-laws #670, #706, #760, #87-972, #87-975 #90-1064, #90-1071 are hereby repealed.
READ a first and second time this 7" day of March 2023
READ a third and final time and passed in open Council this 16" day of May 2023.
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CLERK/ADMINISTRATOR
TOWNSHIP OF MACDONALD, MEREDITH & ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL
SCHEDULE “A” TO BY-LAW 23-2174
PARKING PROHIBITED AT ANY TIME
Highway Side From-To
Alton Lane East Side Church St to End
Bay St. East Side Lake St. North to End
Birch St. South Side Elizabeth St to Hurley St,
Church St. West South Side Hwy 17 B to Hurley St.
Elizabeth St. East Side Church St. West-End
Hurley St. East Side Church St. West-End
Lake St. North East Side Hwy 638 to End
Lake St. South East Side Hwy 638 to End
Maple Drive East Side & South Side Birch St. to Birch St.
Margaret St, East Side & South Side Hurley St. to Roberta Blvd.
Mick St. East Side The Drive to End
Montgomery St. South Side Mick St. to End
Roberta Blvd. South Side Hurley St. to Waterfront Rd.
Station Rd. North Side & South Side Lake St. North 130 Metres
Westerly to the Corner
Station Rd. East Side From the Corner 120 Metres
Southerly to Highway 638
The Drive South Side Lake St. South to Alton Lane
THE TOWNSHIP OF MACDONALD, MEREDITH & ABERDEEN ADDITIONAL
BY-LAW #23-2174
SCHEDULE “B”
PART IIT PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT
PARKING BY-LAW-SET FINES
ITEM COLUMN 1 COLUMN 2 COLUMN 3 COLUMN 4
Short Form Wording Provision Voluntary Payment Set Fine
creating or Payable within 7 days
Defining Offence
1. Parallel Parking at raised curb in 2.1.a.i $40.00 $50.00
opposite direction of travel
2. Parallel Parking at raised curb 2.1.a.i
more than 30 centimeters from $40.00 $50.00
curb
3. Parallel Parking not as close to 2.1.a. ii $40.00 $50.00
right of roadway as practical
4, Improper Angle Parking 2.2 $40.00 $50.00
5. Parking or stopping on a 3.3.La $40.00 $50.00
sidewalk
6. Parking or stopping on a 3.3.1.b $40.00 $50.00
crosswalk
7. Parking or stopping in front of a 3.3.1.¢ $40.00 $50.00
public or private driveway.
8. Parking or stopping within an 3.3.1.d $40.00 $50.00
intersection
9, Parking or stopping within 3 3.3.1.e $40.00 $50.00
meters of a fire hydrant
10. Parking or stopping within 9 3.3.1.6
meters of a crosswalk or $40.00 $50.00
intersection
11. Parking or stopping on any;. 3.3.1.g $40.00 $50.00
street as to obstruct traffic.
{2. Parking or stopping in the 3.3.1.4
opposite direction of the traffic $40.00 $50.00
flow
13. Parking or stopping in such a 3.3.1.1
position as will prevent the $40.00 $30.00
convenient removal of any other
vehicle previously parked or
standing
14, Parking or stopping in front of 3.3.1.j
the entrance to any place where $40.00 $50.00
goods or merchandises are
regularly delivered or removed
15. Parking or stopping within 15 3.3.1.k
meters of any level crossing of a $40.00 $50.00
railway
16. Parking or stopping not more 3.3.1.1
than thirty centimeters (30 cm) $40.00 $50.00
out from a sidewalk
17. Stopping or parking on any 3.3.1.m
municipal owned property $40.00 $50.00
whereon public parking is not
authorized.
18. | Parking or stopping on any 3.3.1.0 $40.00 $50.00
bridge or the approaches thereto.
19. | Parking Prohibited where 4.4.1.a
designated “No Parking Here to $40.00 $50.00
Corner”
20. | Parking within a turning basin at 4.4.1.b $40.00 $50.00
the end of a cul de sac
22, | Parking where signs have been 4.4.1.c
installed and on display $40.00 $50.00
restricting time periods
23. {| Parking where reserved for the 4.4.1.4 $40.00 $50.00
purpose of loading/unloading
24, | Parking where designated “No 4.4.le $40.00 $50.00
Parking” area
25. | Parking in a Fire Route 5.5.1 $60.00 $75.00
26. | Parking on property owned or 6.6.1.a
occupied by the $40.00 $50.00
municipality/local board without
consent
27. | Parking on untraveled portion of 7.71 $40.00 $50.00
highway for longer than 48 hours
28. | Parking in a designated accessible 8.8.2
parking space without the proper $300.00 $300.00
permit visibly displayed
29. | Parking on any highway between 9.9.1
the hours of 11:00 p.m. to 7:00 $40.00 $50.00
a.m. from November 1 of each
year to April 15 of the following
year inclusive
30. | Parking as to obstruct snow 9.9.2 $40.00 $50.00
removal
“NOTE: The penalty provision for the offences indicated above is Section 61 of the Provincial Offences
Act, R.S.O. 1990 ec. P.33”