By-law No. 6712-2025 (Reduced Load Limit on County Roads)
Oxford County, Ontario
· adopted 2025-02-26
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COUNTY OF OXFORD
BY-LAW NO. 6712-2025
BEING a By-law to set reduced load limits on certain County roads, and repeal By-law No. 6191-
2020, as amended.
WHEREAS, the Table to Section 11 and Section 52 (3) of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.O. 2001,
Chapter 25, prescribes that specified highways are within the jurisdiction of the County of Oxford
for all matters relating to those highways, including parking and traffic;
AND WHEREAS, Subsection (7) of Section 122 of the Highway Traffic Act R.S.O. 1990,
Chapter H.8 as amended, provides that the municipality having jurisdiction over a highway may by
by-law designate the date on which a reduced load period shall start or end and the highway or
portion thereof under its jurisdiction to which the designation applies;
AND WHEREAS, Council has adopted Public Works Report PW 2025-07, dated February 12,
2025;
NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the County of Oxford enacts as follows:
1. That the Director of Public Works has authority to designate the dates on which a reduced
load period shall start and end annually, based on the Ministry of Transportation Ontario's
Reduced Load Period (RLP) predictive tool that incorporates weather data to determine when
freeze/thaw cycles begin and end.
2. That during the reduced load period the provisions of Subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) of
Section 122 of the Highway Traffic Act R.S.O. 1990, Chapter H.8 as amended, apply to the
roads or portions thereof set out in Schedule "A" to this By-law, as amended.
3. That this By-law shall be enforceable when reduced load limit signs have been erected and
are on display.
4. That By-law No. 6191-2020, as amended, is hereby repealed.
READ a first and second time this 26th day of February, 2025.
READ a third time and finally passed this 26th day of February, 2025.
MARCUS RYAN,
WARDEN
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LINDSEY A. MANSBRIDGE,
CLERK
Original signed by
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Original Signed By
COUNTY OF OXFORD
BY-LAW NO. 6712-2025
SCHEDULE "A"
OXFORD ROAD #
FROM
TO
5
Oxford Road 8
Oxford Road 24
14
Oxford Road 21
Oxford Road 15
18
Kings Highway 19, Mount Elgin
Oxford Road 13
18
Oxford Road 59
County of Brant Boundary
19
Kings Highway 19, Ostrander
James St., Otterville
19
Oxford Road 59
County of Norfolk Boundary
21
Oxford Road 59
Oxford Road 22
22
Oxford Road 55
Oxford Road 2
22
Oxford Road 2
Oxford-Waterloo Road
23
Oxford Road 22
Regional Road 3,
Regional Municipality of Waterloo
25
County of Middlesex Boundary
Oxford Road 119
27
Oxford Road 10
Pigram Line
28
Oxford Road 59
Oxford Road 5
32
Oxford Road 37
LaSalette Road
33
Oxford Road 6
Oxford Road 59
37
Harvest Line (Tillsonburg)
Oxford Road 32
40
Oxford Road 59
Oxford Road 14
47
Oxford Road 2
Oxford Road 36
60
Oxford Road 4
Oxford Road 8