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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
BY-LAW 84-18
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being a by-law for regulating, governing
and prohibiting the operation of motorized
snow vehicles within the Town of Newcastle
WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle deems it
expedient to regulate, govern or prohibit the operation of motorized snow
vehicles within the Town of Newcastle:
AND WHEREAS the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act, R.S.O. 1980, Chapter 301, provides
that the Council of a local municipality may pass by-laws regulating, governing
or prohibiting the operation of motorized snow vehicles within the municipality:
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE HEREBY
ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. DEFINITIONS
(a) IIHighwayll includes a common or publi.c highway, street, avenue, parkway,
driveway, square place, bridge viaduct or trestle, designed and intended
for, or used by, the general public for the passage of vehicles and which
are under the jurisdiction of the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle;
(b) lIMotorized Snow Vehiclell means a self-propelled vehicle designed to be
driven primarily on snow;
(c) IIMunicipalityll means the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle;
(d) IIMunicipal Propertyll means property owned, managed or controlled by or
made available by lease, agreement or otherwise, to the Corporation of
the Town of Newcastle or any local board thereof;
(e) II Park II means municipal property that is or hereafter may be established,
dedicated, set apart or made available for use as a public park or garden
by the Corporation of the Town of Newcastle;
(f) IISidewalkll means municipal property that is or hereafter may be physically
set apart Qr made available and intended for pedestrian use by the public
as a sidewalk, or that is designated by Council for use as a park or Town
sidewalk by by-law or otherwise.
2. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle along any highway under the
jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle, or on any municipal property, including
parks unless he is licenced pursuant to Section 8 of The Motorized Snow Vehicle
Act, R.S.O. 1980, Chapter 301.
3. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle along any sidewalk in the Town
of Newcastle except when in the act of crossing over such sidewalk and such
crossing shall be at an angle of approximately 90 degrees to the direction of
the sidewalk;
4. (a) Any person licensed to drive a motorized snow vehicle may drive a motorized
snow vehicle in a public park in the municipality except upon roadways where
public vehicular use is prohibited and except in those areas where driving
of motorized snow vehicles is prohibited by signs or posters;
(b) Save and except as noted in Section 3 hereof; no person shall drive a
motorized snow vehicle on municipal property except where, by means of
one or more signs, it is indicated that the operating of a motorized snow
vehicle is permitted.
5. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle at a greater rate of speed than:
(a) 20 kilometres per hour in any public park in the Town of Newcastle~
(b) 50 kilometres per hour upon any highway or part thereof under the
jurisdiction of the Town of Newcastle.
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a 6~ No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle in the Town of Newcastle
between the hours of lZ:OO midnight and six o'clock a_me
t 7. No person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle in the Town of Newcastle, unless
it is equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation
and no person shall drive a motorized snow vehicle which has a muffler cut-out,
straight exhaust, gutted muffler, hollywood muffler, by-pass or similar device
upon the motorized snow vehicle.
8. The owner of a motorized snow vehicle shall incur the penalties provided for
any contravention of this by-law unless at the time of the contravention the
motorized snow vehicle was in the possession of some person other than the
owner without the owner's consent, and the driver or operator of the motorized
snow vehicle, not being the owner, shall also incur the penalties provided for
any such contravention.
9. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this by-law, is guilty of
an offence and upon conviction shall be liable to a fine not exceeding three
hundred dollars ($300.00) (exclusive of costs) for each offence.
10. Town of Bowmanville By-law No. 71-5 and all other by-laws not consistent with
this by-law, shall be and are hereby repealed.
By-law read a first and second time this
13th
day of February
1984.
By-law read a second time and finally passed this13th day of February 1984.
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