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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WOLLASTON
BY-LAW 30 - 2022
REGULATING THE TRAFFIC AND PARKING/STOPPING OF
VEHICLES IN THE TOWNSHIP OF WOLLASTON
WHEREAS, Section 11 (3) of the Municipal Act, 2001, 5.0., c.25, as amended,
provides that a Municipality may pass bylaws with respect to the regulating and
controlling of traffic within their boundaries and for prohibiting the parking, standing or
stopping of motor vehicles on the designated highways or the designated parts of
highways, and for prohibiting the deposit of snow, or ice, or any waste or litter upon a
highway and may provide for penalties and enforcement of said bylaws;
AND WHEREAS, Section 102.1 (1) without limiting sections 9, 10, 11 of the
Municipal Act 2001 5.0., c.25, as amended, a municipality may require a person to
pay an administrative penalty if the municipality is satisfied that the person has failed
to comply with any bylaws respecting the parking, standing or stopping of vehicles;
AND WHEREAS, Section 427 of the Municipal Act, 2001, 5.0., 2001, c.25, as
amended, provides in part that a bylaw establishing a system of accessible parking
shall provide that every person who contravenes the bylaw is guilty of an offence;
AND WHEREAS, R.R.O., 1990, Regulation 581 under the Highway Traffic Act
provides regulations for accessible parking for persons with disabilities;
AND WHEREAS, Section 428 of the Municipal Act, 2001, 5.0., 2001, c.25, as
amended, provides that a bylaw may provide for offences for a vehicle parked in
contravention of a bylaw passed under this Act;
AND WHEREAS, Section 429 (1) of the Municipal Act, 2001, S.0., 2001, c.25, as
amended, provides that a municipality may establish a system of fines for offences
under a bylaw of the municipality passed under this Act;
AND WHEREAS, Section 432 of the Municipal Act, 2001, 5.0., c.25, as amended,
provides in part that a bylaw related to parking, standing or stopping of vehicles,
passed under Section 425 may establish a procedure for the voluntary payment of
penalties out of court;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Township of Wollaston enacts as follows:
The provisions of this bylaw are subject to the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act,
R.S.O. 1990, as amended, or re-enacted from time to time and the regulations made
there under.
1.0 Definitions
1.1 In this Bylaw:
(i)
"Authorized Sign" - means any sign or roadway, curb or sidewalk
marking or device, placed or erected anywhere under the authority of
the Municipality for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic
and includes an official sign.
(ii)
"Bicycle" - shall mean as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, as amended.
(iii)
"Boulevard" - means that portion of municipal property located
between the roadway and the property line.
(iv)
"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 highway.
(v)
"Corner" - means the point of intersection of curbs or edges of the
roadways.
(vi)
"Crosswalk" - means that part of a highway at an intersection that is
included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalk on
opposite sides of the highway measured from the edges of the roadway, or
any portion or a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs or lines or other markings on the
road surface.
(vii)
"Driver/Owner" - for the purpose of this bylaw, means a person who
drives or owns the vehicle in question.
(viii)
"Fire Route" - means any part of a roadway or a private roadway
designated by signage as a route that will be used for emergency
vehicles or emergency personnel, including without limitation, fire
trucks, emergency response vehicles, ambulances and any other
similar motor vehicles.
(ix)
"Heavy Truck" - means a commercial motor vehicle, larger than a truck
commonly identified as a one-ton pickup truck or a van with maximum one-
ton cargo capacity, used for the transportation of any material whether
animate or inanimate.
(x)
"Highway" - includes a common and public highway, street, avenue,
parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of
which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of
vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof.
(xi)
"Intersection" - means the area embraced within the prolongation or
connection of the lateral curb lines or if none, then 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 one highway crosses the other.
(xii)
"Litter" - means all rejected, abandoned or discarded materials,
containers and goods incidental to the operation of households, farms,
business establishments and public places.
(xiii)
"Minister" - means the Minister of Transportation.
(xiv)
"Ministry" - means the Ministry of Transportation.
(xv)
"Median" - means a portion of a highway so constructed as to separate
traffic traveling in one direction from traffic traveling in the opposite
direction by a physical barrier or an unpaved strip of ground.
(xvi)
"Motor Vehicle" - includes an automobile, motorcycle, motor-assisted
bicycle unless otherwise excluded by the Highway Traffic Act and any
other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power but
does not include motor vehicles running only upon rails or a motorized
snow vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self-propelled implement of
husbandry or a road-building machine within the meaning of the Highway
Traffic Act.
(xvii)
"Municipality" - means the Township of Wollaston.
(xviii)
"Officer" - includes members of the Ontario Provincial Police, the
Township of Wollaston Roads and Fire Department, the Bylaw
Enforcement Officer, or any person authorized by the Township of
Wollaston to regulate or to enforce the provisions of this Bylaw.
(xix)
"Official Sign" - means a sign approved by the Ministry.
(xx)
"One-Way Street" - means a street upon which vehicular traffic is
limited to movement in one direction.
(xxi)
"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 engaged in loading or unloading merchandise
or passengers.
(xxii)
"Parking Infraction" - means any unlawful parking, standing, or
stopping of a vehicle that constitutes an offence.
(xxiii)
"Parking Penalty Notice" - means a notice authorized by the
Provincial Offences Act and placed on any vehicle parked in
contravention of this bylaw, providing for the payment of the penalty out
of court.
(xxiv)
"Pedestrian"- means a person afoot and includes children, persons
afoot with mechanical aid or aids, and invalids in wheelchairs or
similar devices.
(xxv)
"Pedestrian Crossover" - means any portion of a roadway, designated
by Bylaw, at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly indicated for
pedestrian crossing by signs on the highway and lines or other markings
on the surface of the roadway as prescribed by the Regulations.
(xxvi)
"Provincial Offences Officer"- means a police officer or a person
designated under the Provincial Offences Act.
(xxvii) "Regulations" - means the regulations made under the Highway Traffic
Act and this bylaw.
(xxviii) "Roadway" - means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or
ordinarily used for vehicular traffic including any designated parking areas
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 the roadways collectively.
(xxix)
"Road Allowance" - means that portion of the Municipality that is
designated as road property.
(xxx)
"Sidewalk" - means that portion of a highway, between the curb lines of a
roadway or the lateral edge lines of a roadway and the adjacent property
lines, designed and intended for the use of pedestrians.
(xxxi)
"Stop" or "Stopping" - means the halting or standing 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 police
officer or an authorized traffic control sign or signal.
(xxxii) "Stand" or "Standing" when prohibited - means the halting of a
vehicle, whether occupied or not, except for the purpose of and while
engaged in the receiving or discharging of passengers.
(xxxiii) "Street or Highway" - includes a common and public highway, street,
avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle,
designed and intended for, or use by, the general public for the passage
of vehicles and any portion of a street between the lateral property lines.
The word street shall denote highway and vice versa.
(xxxiv) "Time" - where any expression of time occurs or where any hour or other
period of time if stated, the time referred to shall be Eastern Standard
Time, except during a period when daylight Saving Time is in effect in the
Township of Wollaston, when the time referred to shall be one hour in
advance of standard time.
(xxxv) "Traffic" - means lawful vehicular or pedestrian movement on the
highway and includes, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other
conveyances either singly or together while using any street for the
purpose of travel.
(xxxvi) "U-Turn" - means to turn a vehicle within a roadway to proceed in the
opposite direction.
(xxxvii) "Vehicle" - includes 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.
(xxxviii) "Words" - where any word or expression used in this By-law is not
defined herein, reference shall be made to the Highway Traffic Act, the
Interpretation Act, as amended or re-enacted from time to time or a
generally accepted dictionary and the interpretation that best supports the
spirit and intent of this By-law shall be adopted.
2.0 Parking
2.1 When authorized signs are erected and on display, no person shall leave a
vehicle in disobedience to the directions given on the said sign on any street or part
of street in the municipality, except Police, Fire Department, Operations Department,
Ambulance, and municipal vehicles in the course of their duties.
2.2 When parking spaces have been established by suitable markings on the road
surface on any street or part of street in the municipality, no person shall park a
vehicle except within the space designated by the markings.
2.3 "Parallel Parking" - When parking is permitted, no person shall park or stop a
vehicle on any highway, except on the right side of the highway having regard for the
direction in which the vehicle has been proceeding and the right front and right rear
wheels or runners of the vehicle are parallel to and distant respectively not more than
15 cm. (6 inches) from the curb or edge of the roadway.
3.0 Prohibited Parking
3.1 No person shall park a vehicle or bicycle:
a) On a sidewalk;
b) On a crosswalk or pedestrian crossover;
c) Within any intersection;
d) Within a fire route, where authorized signs are erected and on display;
e) On a bridge or approaches thereto.
f) Within 3 metres (9.8 feet) of a point on the curb or edge of the roadway directly
opposite a fire hydrant;
g) Within 3 metres (9.8 feet) of an intersection;
h) On any street or highway in such a position as to obstruct traffic;
i) In such a manner as to interfere with the convenience or removal of any
vehicle previously parked or standing;
j) On any street or highway in such a manner as to interfere with necessary civic
services such as but not limited to road repair, snow plowing or snow removal that
is already in progress, or where signs or notices have been placed indicating any
snow removal or other civic operations are to be commenced;
k) Impeding entrance to or exit from a private or public driveway;
l) Park on Beach Road both sides from Wollaston Lake Road to the Public Beach
and to install and maintain appropriate signage to identify this area as a Fire Route;
m) Park on both sides on Wollaston Lake Road from Beach Lane to Wollaston Lake;
n) Park on both sides of Norman Lane and to erect and maintain `Not a through
Road' Sign;
o) Park on The Ridge Road from the south end of 461 The Ridge Road to 495 The
Ridge Road and to erect and maintain at normal intervals `No Parking Signs';
p) Park on a Road Allowance for longer than 24 hours;
q) Park along #620 in the Hamlet of Coe Hill from November 1st to April 30th in each
year, interfering with the removal of snow;
r) Park at the westerly entrance to Spring Street. No Parking Signs to be erected and
maintained;
s) Park in front of the entrance to the Fire Hall;
t) Park in front of Municipal Park on #620 in Coe Hill;
u) Park on West side of the Wollaston Lake Road from #620 to Municipal Building,
90 Wollaston Lake Road;
v) Block a Municipal Road allowance for Emergency vehicles;
w) Block a Municipal Road allowance for Township events;
x) Park in front or behind as to block Handicap Parking Spaces.
3.0 Section Exemption:
Permission may be granted, by authorized representatives of the municipality for relief
from the provisions of this bylaw during construction or any unusual or unforeseen
circumstance.
Prohibit Section 3.0 Exemption:
Permission may be granted, by authorized representatives of the municipality for relief
from the provisions of this bylaw during construction or any unusual or unforeseen
circumstance.
4.0 Heavy Trucks
4.1 No person shall park or stop a heavy truck in any residential area for any
reason other than to load or unload cargo and for no longer of a period than
reasonably required to load or unload cargo.
5.0 Limited Time Parking Zones
5.1 Where authorized signs are erected and on display, no person shall park a
vehicle on a street or part of a street for a longer period than allowed by the said
authorized sign.
6.0 Accessible Parking
6.1 Where authorized signs bearing the International Symbol for Accessibility are
erected and on display in public or private parking areas, parking lots or parking
facilities, no person shall park a vehicle in a designated parking space except when
the parking is for the convenience of a person with disabilities and the vehicle
displays a permit bearing the International Symbol for Accessibility as approved by
the Minister.
7.0 Parking on Municipal Property
7.1 No person shall park a motor vehicle on property owned or occupied by the
Municipality or any local board thereof without the consent of the Municipality or
said local board.
7.2 Where signs are displayed, no person shall park or leave a vehicle on
Municipal property, including a Municipal dock or boat launch, without written
authority from the Municipality.
8.0 Miscellaneous Prohibitions
8.1 No person, without lawful authority, shall push or blow snow onto the roadway
or road allowance.
8.2 No person, without lawful authority, shall deposit litter, mud, dirt, gravel,
stone, cement or any other object(s) on the roadway or road allowance.
9.0 Exceptions
9.1 The provisions of this Bylaw shall not apply to:
a) Fire Department vehicles;
b) Police Department vehicles;
c) Ambulances;
d) Authorized vehicles owned or employed by the Township of Wollaston; or
e) Emergency vehicles while performing the duties for which they were intended.
10.0 Enforcement and Penalties
10.1 The provisions of this Bylaw shall be enforced by an Officer, as defined in Section
1.0 of this Bylaw.
11.0 Emergency Prohibitions
11.1 Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Bylaw, the Municipality or a person
authorized by the Municipality, during emergency or special circumstances, may
declare a period of emergency parking prohibition and by use of signs or other clear
directions, may suspend the parking of vehicles on any street or parts thereof. A
vehicle parked before the declaration of the Municipality or authorized agent may be
deemed to be parked in contravention of this Section providing all reasonable
attempts have been made to contact the owner or driver of the vehicle. Where the
owner or driver of the vehicle has been notified of the emergency parking prohibition
and has been given reasonable opportunity to remove the vehicle and fails to or
refuses to obey the directions of the Municipality or authorized agent, the owner or
driver of the motor vehicle has committed an offence.
12.0 Procedures
12.1 An Officer who has reason to believe that a Person has contravened this
Bylaw may issue a Penalty Notice in accordance with the Administrative
Monetary Penalty System Bylaw.
12.2 The issuing Officer may serve a Parking Penalty Notice in accordance with
the Administrative Monetary Penalty System Bylaw or;
a) On the owner of the vehicle by affixing the notice to the vehicle in a conspicuous
place at the time of the alleged infraction or by delivering it personally to the person
having care and control of the vehicle at the time of the alleged infraction; or
13.0 Penalties
13.1 Every person who contravenes any provision of this bylaw is guilty of an offence
and on conviction is liable to a fine as provided for in the Provincial Offences Act
R.S.O. 1990, C.p.33.
13.2 All penalties imposed by a judicial official are recoverable under the provisions
of the Provincial Offences Act together with such costs and expenses as are
imposed there under in Schedule 'A' of this bylaw.
13.3 The Administrative Monetary Penalty System Bylaw applies to each
administrative penalty issued pursuant to this Bylaw. A $250 penalty shall apply to
the towing of any passenger vehicle and $350 for larger trucks and other large
vehicles. The Township Road Department supervisor, roads staff, the Fire Chief,
Fire Prevention Officer and Fire Department personal and By-law Enforcement
Official are authorized by this By-law to call for vehicle removal under this Amps By-
law and penalty.
13.4 Each person who contravenes any provision of this Bylaw shall, upon issuance
of a Penalty Notice in accordance with the Administrative Monetary Penalty System
Bylaw, be liable to pay to the Municipality an administrative monetary penalty.
13.5 Every person who contravenes any provision of this Bylaw is guilty of an offence
and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine prescribed and recoverable under the
provisions of the Provincial Offences Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.P.33, as amended, for each
offence committed.
13.6 The Administrative Monetary Penalty System Bylaw applies to each administrative
penalty issued pursuant to this Bylaw.
13.7 Each person who contravenes any provision of this Bylaw shall, upon issuance of
a penalty notice in accordance with the Administrative Monetary Penalty System Bylaw,
be liable to pay to the Municipality an administrative penalty.
13.8 The property owner may be liable to pay any fines, fees and charges imposed by
this bylaw, if the person who is found to be in violation of this bylaw is not the owner of
the property but occupies or is using the property with the owner's consent.
13.9 All fees and charges payable under this bylaw constitute a debt of the person
liable for payment of them to the Township of Wollaston and, in the case of owners of a
property being responsible for payment of the fees and charges, the Municipality may
add the amount owing to the tax roll for the owner(s) real property and collect them in
like manner as Municipal taxes.
13.10 If any term or provision of this Bylaw or the application thereof to any person shall
to any extent be held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Bylaw or the
application of such term or provision to all persons other than those to whom it was held
to be invalid or unenforceable, shall not be affected thereby and each term and
provision of this Bylaw shall be separately valid and enforceable to the fullest extent
permitted by law.
PARKING BYLAW TO REGULATE PARKING IN THE TOWNSHIP OF
WOLLASTON- Schedule A
COLUMN 1
DESIGNATED
BYLAW &
SECTION
COLUMN 2
SHORT FORM
WORDING
COLUMN 3
ADMINISTR
ATIVE
PENALTY
1
**- 2022
Leave vehicle
where
prohibited
$30.00
2
**- 2022
Park - not entirely
within marked
parking space
$30.00
3
**- 2022
Park facing wrong
direction
$15.00
4
**- 2022
Park on sidewalk,
crosswalk or
pedestrian crossover
$30.00
5
**- 2022
Park within any
intersection
$30.00
6
**- 2022
Park in a designated
fire/emergency
services route
$75.00
7
**- 2022
Park on a bridge
$30.00
8
**- 2022
Park within 3 metres
of fire hydrant
$100.00
9
**- 2022
Park within 3
metres of
intersection
$30.00
10
**- 2022
Park on street or
highway - obstruct
traffic
$100.00
11
**- 2022
Park - prevent
removal of
previously parked
$15.00
vehicle
12
**- 2022
Park - interfere with
civic services/snow
removal
$30.00
13
**- 2022
Park in front of driveway $15.00
14
**- 2022
Park between
12:00am and 7:00am
from October 15 to
April 15
$30.00
15
**- 2022
Park or stop heavy
truck in residential
area
$50.00
16
**-2022
Park in excess of
authorized time
$15.00
17
**- 2022
Park in designated
accessible parking space
- no permit
$300.00
18
**-2022
Park motor
vehicle on
municipal
property-
unauthorized
$30.00
19
**-2022
Park vehicle on
municipal property -
unauthorized
$30.00
20
**-2022
Deposit snow on
roadway/road
allowance
$50.00
21
**-2022
Deposit any object(s)
on the roadway/road
allowance
$100.00
14.0 Severability
14.1 Should any provision, or any part of a provision, of this Bylaw be declared
invalid, or to be of no force and effect, by a court of competent jurisdiction, it is the
intent of Council that such a provision, or part of a provision, shall be severed from
this Bylaw, and every other provision of this Bylaw shall be applied and enforced in
accordance with its terms to the extent possible according to law.
14.2 Bylaw 2012-068 and all its amendments shall be rescinded on the day this
bylaw comes into force and effect.
15.0 Short Title
15.1 The short title of this bylaw shall be the Parking Bylaw.
16.0 Effective Date
16.1 THAT this Bylaw shall come into effect on the day it was passed.
PASSED THIS 09TH DAY OF MAY, 2022.
MAYOR: LYNN KRUGER
SEAL
CLERK: BERNICE CROCKER