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CORPORATION OF THE
TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
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BY - LAW 80-41
Being a by-law to restrict the weight which a
commercial motor vehicle or trailer can trans-
mit to a municipal road.
WHEREAS subsection lO of Section 77 of The Highway Traffic Act,
R.S.O. 1970, c. 202, as amended, provides that the municipal corp-
oration or other authority having jurisdiction over any highway may
declare the provisions of subsections 5, 7 and 13 of Section 77 to
apply to highways under its jurisdiction during any period of the year,
or that the provisions of subsections 5 and 7 do not apply to any or
all highways under its jurisdiction;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ENACTEb AND IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a by-law of
The Corporation of the Town of Newcastle by the Council thereof as
follows:
I. Subject to Section 66 of The Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O.
1970, c. 202, as amended, during the period from the first day of March
to the twenty-first day of May inclusive, no commercial motor vehicle or
trailer, other than a public vehicle, or a two-axle tank truck or two
axle truck while either is used as referred to in section 2 of this
by-law, shall be operated or drawn on any road or portion thereof that
is part of the municipal road system, where any axle of such commercial
motor vehicle or trailer transmits to the municipal road a weight in
excess of 5,000 kilograms.
2. Subject to Section 66 of The Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1970,
c. 202, as amended, during the months of March and April, no two-axle
tank truck, while used exclusively for the transportation of liquid or
gaseous heating fuel, and no two axle truck, while used for the trans-
portation of live stock feed, shall be operated on any road or portion
thereof that is part of the municipal road system, where any axle transmits
to the highway a weight in excess of 7,500 kilograms.
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3. Subject to Section 66 of The Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O.
1970, c. 202, as amended, during the period from the first day of March
to the twenty-first day of May, inclusive, no vehicle having a carrying
capacity in excess of 1,000 kilograms, other than a motor vehicle or
trailer, shall be operated on any road or portion thereof that is part
of the municipal road system, where the weight upon any millimetre in
the width of tire exceeds 5 kilograms.
4. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
by-law is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of:
(a) $2.00 per 100 kilograms, or part thereof, for any weight in
excess of that permitted under The Highway Traffic Act or the regulations
thereto, where the overweight is less than 5,000 kilograms, but in no
case shall the fine be less than $50. 00;
(b) $4.00 per 100 kilograms, or part thereof, for any weight in
excess of that permitted under The Highway Traffic Act, or the regulations
thereto, where the overweight is 5,000 kilograms or more but is less than
7,500 kilograms;
(c) $6.00 per 100 kilograms, or part thereof, for any weight in
excess of that permitted under The Highway Traffic Act or the regulations
thereto, where the overweight is 7,500 kilograms or more but is less than
lO,OOO kilograms;
(d) $8.00 per lOO kilograms, or part thereof, for any weight in
excess of that permitted under The Highway Traffic Act or the regulations
thereto, where the overweight is lO,OOO kilograms or more but is less than
l5,000 kilograms and;
(e) $IO.OO per 100 kilograms, or part thereof, for any weight in
excess of that permitted under The Highway Traffic Act or the regulations
thereto, where the overweight is 15,000 kilograms or more.
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By-law read a first time this 8th
By-law read a second time this 8th
this
By-law read a third time and finally passed
8th
SEAL
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