I. Definitions
1. In this By-Law,
a) “Appropriate Authorized Sign” shall mean a sign, which has been authorized by
the Council of the Corporation of Haldimand County.
b) “Boulevard” shall mean that portion of every road allowance within the limits of
Haldimand County, which is not used as a sidewalk, driveway, traveled
roadway, or shoulder.
c) “By-Law Enforcement Officer” means a person authorized by Council to enforce
the by-laws of Haldimand County.
d) “Commercial Motor Vehicle” means a motor vehicle having permanently attached
thereto to a truck or delivery body and including ambulance, hearses, casket
wagons, fire apparatus, buses and tractors used for hauling purposes on the
highways.
e) “Corner” with reference to a highway intersection, means the point of intersection
of the prolongation of the lateral curb lines or in the absence of curbs the
prolongation of the edges of the roadways.
f) “Crosswalk” means:
i) that part of a highway at an intersection of two roadways that is
included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on
opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the
absence or curbs, from the edges of the roadway, or
ii) any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly
indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs or by lines or other markings
on the surface.
g) “Curb” includes the edge of the roadway
h) “Designated parking space” means a parking space properly signed for the
exclusive use of a vehicle displaying a permit in accordance with the requirements
of the Highway Traffic Act and the regulations made there under.
i) “Driveway” means the improved land on a highway, which provide vehicular
access from the roadway to the adjacent land.
j) “Gross Weight” means the combined weight of vehicle and load.
k) “Heavy Vehicle” means a motor vehicle:
i) having a carrying capacity in excess of one (1) ton, or
ii) any vehicle having a registered gross weight in excess of three thousand
six hundred twenty-nine kilograms (3,629 kg/8,000 lbs.), or
iii) for which the permit fee under the Highway Traffic Act is based on the
weight of the vehicle and load, in excess of three thousand six hundred
twenty-nine kilograms (3,629 kg/8,000 lbs.), or
iv) which exceeds six point four (6.4) meters (21 feet) in length, or
v) which is equipped with tandem rear axles, or
vi) which is a tow truck, or
vii) which is a bus or a bus converted into a mobile home or used for
commercial purposes, But does not include an authorized County
vehicle
l) “Highway” includes a common and public highway, street, road, lane, avenue,
parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, designed and
intended for, or used by, the general public for the passage of vehicles, includes
the area between the lateral property lines thereof and sidewalks, boulevards and
curbs it may contain and includes a roadway and shoulder.
m) “Highway Traffic Act” means the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1989, c.198, as
amended.
n) “Intersection” means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of
the lateral curb lines or, if none, then the lateral boundary lines of two or more
highways that join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway crosses
the other.
o) “Ministry” means the Ministry of Transportation of Ontario.
p) “Motor vehicle” includes an automobile, truck, motorcycle, motor assisted bicycle,
and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power.
q) “Municipality” means Municipality of the Corporation of Haldimand County.
r) “One-Way Street” means a street upon which vehicular traffic is limited to
movement in one direction.
s) “Owner” means the person having ownership of, or person having control, charge
or care of a vehicle.
t) “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.
u) “Parking Space” means that part of the roadway, the use of which is designated
for the purpose of parking a vehicle.
v) “Pedestrian” means a person on foot, an invalid in a wheel chair or a child in a
wheeled carriage or in any toy or in any toy vehicle other than a bicycle.
w) “Permit” means a disabled person parking permit issued under the Highway
Traffic Act or a permit, number or either marker or device issued by another
jurisdiction and recognized under that Act;
x) “Person” includes any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
y) “Police Officer” means a member of the Ontario Provincial Police.
z) “Recreational Vehicle” shall mean a vehicle designed to provide temporary living,
sleeping or eating accommodation for travel, vacation, seasonal camping or
recreational use and designed to be driven, towed, transported or relocated from time to time whether or not the vehicle is jacked up or its running gear is removed. A recreational vehicle shall include a motor home, camper trailer, motorized home motorized camper, truck camper, pick-up coach, chassis-mounted camper, slide-in camper, tent trailer, fifth-wheel trailer and park model
trailer and similar mobile vehicles and shall include a mobile home, a motorized
racing vehicle or snowmobile, off-road vehicle, marine craft, whether on a trailer
intended for its transportation or not.
aa) “Roadway” means the part of a 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 roadways collectively.
bb) “School Bus” means a vehicle designed and used for the transportation of
children to and from school, and that complies with the regulations therefore
made under the Highway Traffic Act.
cc) “Shoulder” means that portion of every street which abuts the roadway and
which is designed and intended for the passage or stopping of motor vehicles but
which extends no more than four meters (4 meters) (12 feet) in width from the
limit of the roadway.
dd) “Sidewalk” means with respect to a street that;
(i) has a curb or curbs, that portion of the street intended for the use of
pedestrians between the outside edge of the curb and the adjacent property
line, or
(ii) with respect to a street without curbs, that portion of the street intended
for the use of pedestrians.
ee) “Stop or stopping” when prohibited, means the halting 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 constable or other
police officer or of a traffic control sign or signal.
ff) “Street” see “Highway”;
gg) “Time” means where any expression of time occurs or where any hour or other
period of time is stated the time referred to shall be eastern. Standard time
except during the periods when daylight saving time is in effect in Haldimand
County, during which period the time referred to shall be one hour in advance
of standard time.
hh) “Traffic Control Device” means any sign, signal or other roadway, curb or
sidewalk marking, or any other device erected or placed under the authority of
this By-law for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
ii) “Vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road
building machine and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of
power, including muscular power, but does not include the cars of electric or
steam railways running only upon rails.
