THE CITY OF OTTAWA
BY‑LAW
NO. 2003-XXX
A by‑law regulating
traffic and parking on highways.
The Council of The City
of Ottawa ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
DEFINITIONS
AND INTERPRETATION
DEFINITIONS
1. In
this By‑law:
"authorized vehicle" means,
(a)
a vehicle owned or operated by
the City of Ottawa provided that the vehicle is performing a service related to the operation of a
reserved bus lane or a transit only facility;
(b)
a vehicle owned or operated by a
public utility provided that the vehicle is carrying out its respective utility
service on a utility located on a reserved bus lane or a transit only facility;
(c)
any vehicle authorized by the
General Manager; and
(d)
any vehicle that falls within
the definition of an emergency vehicle as defined in the Highway Traffic Act.
"bicycle"
includes a tricycle and unicycle but does not include a motor‑assisted
bicycle.
“bookmobile”
means a commercial motor vehicle or tractor trailer used as a travelling public
library.
"boulevard"
means all the parts of the highway, save and except, any roadway, shoulder or
sidewalk, and
(a) "central
boulevard" means that part of the highway lying between the travelled
portions of a divided highway and
includes channelizing islands;
(b) "outer
boulevard" means that part of the highway lying between any sidewalk and
the travelled portion of the highway or the near edge of the shoulder where
such exists; and
(c) "inner
boulevard" means that part of the highway lying between the property line
and the edge of the sidewalk nearest to the property line and where there is no
sidewalk, it means that part of the highway lying between the property line and
the travelled portion of the highway or the edge of the shoulder, where such
exists, furthest from the travelled portion of the highway.
"bus stop"
means a part of a highway designated as a point at which buses will stop to
take on or let off passengers.
"Chief of Police"
means the Chief of Police of the Ottawa Police Service, or an authorized
representative.
"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 highways.
“compound” means that part of the outer boulevard set aside for parking
purposes.
"controlled‑access
road" means a road so designated under Section 40 of the City of Ottawa
Act.
"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.
"crosswalk"
means,
(a) that part of a highway at an
intersection 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 of curbs, from the edges of the roadway; or
(b) 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.
"disability
parking permit" means,
(a)
a disabled person parking permit
issued under the Highway Traffic Act, or
(b) a permit, number plate or other number
or device issued by another jurisdiction and recognized under the Highway
Traffic Act.
"driveway"
means a part of a highway improved to provide vehicular access from the roadway
to a laneway or a parking area on adjacent land.
"farm
tractor" means a self‑propelled vehicle designed and used primarily
as a farm implement for drawing ploughs, mowing‑machines and other
implements of husbandry and not designed or used for carrying a load.
“General Manager” means the General Manager of the Transportation,
Utilities and Public Works Department
of the City of Ottawa, or an authorized representative.
"gross
weight" means the combined weight of vehicle and load.
"heavy truck"
means a motor vehicle having a carrying capacity in excess of one (1) tonne or
any vehicle having a gross weight in
excess of four and one-half (4.5) tonnes, but does not include a bus travelling
on a bus route established by the Commission, an ambulance, or a school bus.
"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.
"highway, one‑way"
means a highway upon which the movement of vehicular traffic is limited to one
direction.
“high-occupancy vehicle
or HOV” means a motor vehicle carrying three or more persons including the
driver.
"holiday"
includes Sunday, New Year's Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Victoria Day,
Canada Day, the Day proclaimed as a Civic Holiday by the City of Ottawa, Labour
Day, Thanksgiving Day, Remembrance Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, the Day proclaimed
as the Birthday or day fixed by proclamation of the Governor General for the
celebration of the birthday of the reigning sovereign, and any day appointed by
proclamation of the Governor‑General or the Lieutenant‑Governor‑in‑Council
as a public holiday or for a general fast or thanksgiving, and the next
following day when any such holiday, except Remembrance Day, falls on a Sunday.
"intersection"
means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral
curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or more
highways which join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway crosses
the other.
"King's
Highway" includes the secondary highways and tertiary roads designated
under the Public Transportation and Highway Improvement Act.
"laneway"
means improved land adjacent to the highway, which provides access from the
highway to a parking area on adjacent land.
"loading
zone" means the part of a highway, private property or property of the
City of Ottawa, set apart for the exclusive purpose of parking a vehicle to
load or unload the same.
"median
strip" means the portion of a highway so constructed as to separate
traffic travelling in one direction from traffic travelling in the opposite
direction by a physical barrier or a raised or depressed paved or unpaved
separation area that is not intended to allow crossing vehicular movement.
"motor
assisted bicycle" means a bicycle,
(a) that is fitted with
pedals, which are operable at all times, to propel the bicycle,
(b)
that weighs not more than fifty‑five
(55) kilograms,
(c)
that has no hand or foot
operated clutch or gearbox driven by the motor and transferring power to the
driven wheel,
(d)
that has an attached motor driven
by electricity or having a piston displacement of not more than fifty (50)
cubic centimetres, and
(e)
that does not have sufficient
power to enable the bicycle to attain a speed greater than fifty (50)
kilometres per hour on level ground within a distance of two (2) kilometres
from a standing start.
"motorcycle"
means a self‑propelled vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the
driver and designed to travel on not more than three (3) wheels in contact with
the ground, and includes a motor scooter but does not include a motor assisted
bicycle.
"motor
vehicle" includes an automobile, motorcycle, motor assisted bicycle unless
otherwise indicated in the Highway Traffic Act, and any other vehicle
propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a
streetcar, or other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow
vehicle, traction engine, farm tractor, self‑propelled implement of
husbandry or road‑building machine within the meaning of the Highway
Traffic Act.
"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.
"parking
meter" means an electronic or a mechanical device together with its
support, erected to control and regulate the parking of a vehicle in a parking space.
"parking meter
hood" means a bag or other covering for a parking meter that is placed
over a parking meter by the Transportation, Utilities and Public Works General
Manager to indicate that a parking meter is not to be used.
"parking meter
space" means a parking space, the use of which for parking a vehicle is
controlled and regulated by a parking meter.
"parking meter
zone" means that part of a highway where parking is controlled and
regulated by a parking meter.
"parking
space" means that part of the surface of the roadway, private property or property of the City of Ottawa, the
use of which is designated for the purpose of vehicle parking.
“pay and display parking machine” means
an automatic or other electronic, electro-mechanical or mechanical device, with
the necessary standard for the device, for the purpose of controlling and
regulating the parking of any vehicle in a pay and display parking machine
space and which, when a coin or credit card has been inserted into the pay and
display parking machine and the machine activated, issues a receipt indicating
the date and time of that activation and the duration of the parking in or on
the pay and display parking machine space permitted.
“pay and display parking machine space”
means a parking space, the use of which for parking a vehicle is controlled and
regulated by a pay and display parking machine.
"pedestrian"
means,
(a)
a person on foot;
(b)
a person in a wheelchair; or
(c)
a child in a carriage, stroller
or play vehicle.
"physically disabled passenger vehicle" means a motor
vehicle that,
(a) meets the requirements
for a "physically‑disabled passenger vehicle" as prescribed in
Ontario Regulation 629 under the Highway Traffic Act, or
(b) is regularly used for transporting a
physically disabled person.
"physically
disabled person" means an individual who has been issued a disabled person
parking permit under the Highway Traffic Act, and the disabled person parking
permit is valid.
"Police officer,"
"constable" or "special constable" means a person so
appointed by the Ottawa Police Service and "constable" includes a
municipal by-law enforcement officer appointed pursuant to subsection 15(1) of
the Police Services Act.
"Police
Service" means the Ottawa Police Service.
"police
vehicle" means a vehicle owned or operated by the Ottawa Police Service,
the Ontario Provincial Police or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
"public parking
area" means an open area or structure, other than a street, used by the
public at the invitation of the owner for the temporary parking of more than
four (4) passenger vehicles whether free, for compensation, or as an
accommodation for clients, customers or visitors.
"public transit
motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle owned and operated by the City of
Ottawa, or a motor vehicle owned and operated by the Outaouais Regional
Community Transit Commission as part of its regular passenger transport
services.
"public
vehicle" means a motor vehicle operated on a highway by, for or on behalf
of any person for the transportation for compensation of passengers, or
passengers and express freight that might be carried in a passenger vehicle,
but does not include the cars of electric or steam railways running only upon
rails, taxicabs, car pool vehicles, nor motor vehicles operated solely within
the corporate limits of one urban municipality.
"roadway"
means that part of the 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 of the roadways
collectively.
"roadway,
laned" means a highway which has been divided into separate lanes for
vehicular traffic which lanes are indicated by lines or other markings on the
surface of the roadway or in any other manner.
“school
bus” means a bus that,
(a) is a motor vehicle designed for carrying
ten (10) or more passengers,
(b) has a carrying capacity in excess of one (1) tonne or has a gross weight in excess of four and one‑half (4.5) tonnes,
(c) is painted chrome yellow, and
(d) displays
on the front and rear thereof the words "school bus" and on the rear
thereof the words "do not pass when signals flashing."
"shoulder"
means that part of the highway immediately adjacent to the travelled portion of
the roadway and having a surface which has been improved for the use of
vehicles with asphalt, concrete or gravel.
"side,
approach" means the side of a part of a highway to which vehicular traffic
may lawfully approach.
"side,
leaving" means the side of a part of a highway opposite the approach side.
"sidewalk"
includes all such parts of a highway as are set aside by the City of Ottawa for
the use of pedestrians or used by the general public for the passage of
pedestrians.
"sign,
authorized" means any sign or roadway, curb or sidewalk marking or other
device placed or erected on a highway under the authority of this by‑law
for the purpose of regulating, warning or guiding traffic.
"sign,
official" means a sign approved by the Ministry of Transportation of
Ontario.
"sign, point"
means a point on the curb or edge of the roadway opposite a sign.
"stand" or
"standing,” when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, whether
occupied or not, except for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
receiving or discharging passengers.
"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 directions of a constable or other
police officer or of a traffic control sign or signal.
"through
highway" means any highway or part of a highway so designated by this
by-law and every such highway shall be marked by a stop sign or yield
right-of-way sign in compliance with the regulations of the Ministry of
Transportation of Ontario.
"traffic"
includes pedestrians, animals which are ridden, led or herded, vehicles, and
other conveyances either singly or together while using a highway for the
purposes of travel.
"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 warning, regulating, guiding or directing traffic.
"traffic control
signal" means any device operated manually, electrically, mechanically or
electronically for the regulation or control of traffic.
"traffic, one‑way"
means movement by vehicles upon a highway in one direction only.
"trailer"
means a vehicle that is at any time drawn upon a highway by a motor vehicle,
except an implement of husbandry, a mobile home, another motor vehicle, or any
device or apparatus not designed to transport persons or property, temporarily
drawn, propelled or moved upon such highway, and except a side car attached to
a motorcycle, and shall be considered a separate vehicle and not part of the
motor vehicle by which it is drawn.
"transit only
facility" means the entire area between the boundary lines which are
owned, leased, or otherwise used including the roads, bridges, transit
terminals, and other appurtenances designed and intended for, or primarily used
by, the City of Ottawa for its transit service.
"truck route"
means a truck route established by Section 70 of this by‑law.
"U‑turn"
means the turning of a vehicle within the highway so as to proceed in the opposite
direction to that in which the vehicle was travelling immediately prior to
making the turn.
“van” means
(a)
a vehicle equipped with a ramp,
power lift or any other special device to assist a physically disabled driver
or passenger in entering and leaving a vehicle; or
(b)
an “accessible urban transit
bus” or a “physically-disabled passenger vehicle,” as defined in Regulation 629
to the Highway Traffic Act.
"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
or a street car.
"wheelchair"
means a chair mounted on wheels driven by muscular or any other kind of power
and used for the carriage of a person who has a physical disability.
INTERPRETATION ‑ GENERAL
2. (1) In this by‑law:
(a) words importing the singular number or
the masculine gender only, include more persons, parties or things of the same
kind than one and females as well as males and the converse,
(b) a word interpreted in the singular
number has a corresponding meaning when used in the plural,
(c) "may" shall be construed as
permissive,
(d) "shall" shall be construed as
imperative, and
(e) "vehicle,” when used as part of a
prohibition of parking or stopping, includes any part thereof.
Abbreviations
(2) In the schedules to this
by‑law, the following abbreviations, definitions and symbols stand for
the words respectively set forth opposite thereto as follows:
(a) Ave. ‑ Avenue
Blvd. ‑ Boulevard
Ct. ‑ Court
Cres. ‑ Crescent
Dr. ‑ Drive
Gdns. ‑ Gardens
Hts ‑ Heights
Hwy. ‑ Highway
Pl. ‑ Place
Priv. ‑ Private
Rd. ‑ Road
Sq. ‑ Square
St. ‑ Street
Terr. ‑ Terrace
(b) cm ‑ centimetre
m ‑ metre
km ‑ kilometre
km/h ‑ kilometre
per hour
(c) N. ‑ North
S. ‑ South
E. ‑ East
W. ‑ West
(d) a.m. ‑ Ante Meridian
p.m. ‑ Post
Meridian
(e) Twp. ‑ Township
Con. ‑ Concession
(f) B.F. ‑ Broken Front
O.F. ‑ Ottawa
Front
R.F. ‑ Rideau
Front
(g) Mon. - Monday
Tues. - Tuesday
Wed - Wednesday
Thurs. - Thursday
Fri. - Friday
Sat. - Saturday
Sun. - Sunday
Distances
(3) Where a distance is used in this by‑law
as part of a prohibition of parking or stopping within a specified distance of
an object, structure, land or a part of a
highway, such distance shall be measured:
(a) along the curb or edge of the roadway
from a point in such curb or edge of roadway opposite such object, structure,
land or part of a highway, unless the context otherwise requires, and
(b) from such point in the curb or edge of
roadway in all directions.
Cumulative
Effect
(4) The various prohibitions of this by‑law
are cumulative and not mutually self‑exclusive.
Severability
(5) It is declared that if any section,
subsection or part or parts thereof be declared by any Court of Law to be bad,
illegal or ultra vires, such section, subsection or part or parts shall be
deemed to be severable and all parts hereof are declared to be separate and
independent and enacted as such.
Terminology
(6) Municipal law enforcement officer and
municipal by-law enforcement officer have similar meanings.
STANDARD TIME AND DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
3. Where any expression of
time occurs or where any hour or other period of time is stated, the time
referred to shall be standard time, provided however, if what is known as
"daylight saving time" has been generally adopted in the City of
Ottawa for any period of the year, under any statute, order‑in‑council,
by‑law, resolution or proclamation, whether the same is effective in law
or not, such time shall be the time referred to during such period in any
reference to time in this by‑law.
PART "A"
PART
I
REGULATIONS
‑ SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
REGULATIONS ‑ SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
4. (1) If the General Manager is of the opinion
that for some temporary period to ensure the safety of the public, the proper
movement of traffic, the parking of vehicles, or the proper and safe
performance of some vital function of the City of Ottawa or a local board,
special regulations are required for the movement, parking or stopping of
vehicles on a highway under the jurisdiction of the City of Ottawa, the General
Manager is authorized to make special regulations to prohibit or regulate the
movement, parking or stopping of vehicles on such highway during such times and
days as the General Manager deems proper and necessary and the General Manager
shall erect official signs or otherwise give reasonable notice to indicate such
special regulations.
(2) When official or authorized signs have
been erected or notice has otherwise been
given under subsection (1) hereof, every person shall obey the instructions or
directions on any sign so erected and the sign is deemed to have been erected
pursuant to the section that normally regulates or prohibits the matter, and
the appropriate Schedule is deemed to have been amended to implement the
regulation, and those provisions apply to any act or failure to act contrary to
the special regulations made pursuant to Section 4.
PART
II
PARKING
AND STOPPING
GENERAL REGULATIONS
Two‑Way
Highways and Right
Side
of One-Way Highways
5. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), no
person shall park or stop any vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped on any highway except as follows:
(a) where there is a raised curb, on the
right side of the travelled portion of the highway, having regard to the
direction in which the vehicle was travelling, with its right front and rear
wheels parallel to and not more than fifteen (15 cm) centimetres away from such
curb; or
(b) where there is no curb or a rolled curb,
on the right side of the highway having regard to the direction in which the
vehicle was travelling, with the right front and rear wheels parallel to and as
near to the right hand limit of the highway as is practicable without stopping
over any part of a highway which is landscaped or which is not intended for the
use of vehicles.
One‑Way
Highways
(2) Subject to subsection (3), where parking
is permitted on the left side of a highway designated for one‑way
traffic, no person shall park or stop any vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked or stopped on the left side of a highway designated for one-way traffic
except as follows:
(a) where there is a raised curb, on the
left side of the travelled portion of
the highway having regard to the direction in which the vehicle was travelling,
with its left front and rear wheels parallel to and not more than fifteen (15
cm) centimetres away from such curb; or
(b) where there is no curb or a rolled curb,
on the left side of the highway having regard to the direction in which the
vehicle was travelling, with the left front and rear wheels parallel to and as
near to the left hand limit of the highway as is practicable without stopping
over any part of a highway which is landscaped or which is not intended for the
use of vehicles.
Exemption
‑ Angle Parking
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply
where angle parking is permitted under this by‑law.
PARKING PROHIBITED WITH SIGNS
6. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked on any highway:
(a) in front of or within eight (8 m) metres
of a lot on which there is a fire hall, on the side of the highway on which the
fire hall is located;
(b) on the opposite side of a highway from
that, on which a fire hall is located and within thirty (30 m) metres of the
projected lot lines of the lot on which such fire hall is located;
(c) within fifteen (15 m) metres of an
intersection;
(d) within thirty (30 m) metres of an
intersection controlled by a traffic control signal;
(e) in front of the main entrance to, or any
emergency exit from any hotel, hospital, nursing home, theatre, auditorium or
other building or enclosed space in which persons may be expected to congregate
in large numbers;
(f) within thirty (30 m) metres of the
approach side of a crosswalk that is controlled by a traffic control signal and
not located at an intersection;
(g) within fifteen (15 m) metres of the
leaving side of a crosswalk that is controlled by a traffic control signal and
not located at an intersection;
(h) so as to interfere with the formation of
a funeral procession; or
(i) within fifteen (15 m) metres of the end
of the roadway on a dead end highway.
PARKING PROHIBITED WITHOUT SIGNS
7. No person shall park a
vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on any highway:
(a) within nine (9 m) metres of an intersection;
(b) within three (3 m) metres of a point on
the curb or edge of roadway opposite a fire hydrant;
(c) in front of or within one and one‑half
(1.5 m) metres of a laneway or driveway;
(d) so as to obstruct a vehicle in the use of
any laneway or driveway;
(e) in such a position that will prevent the
convenient removal of any other vehicle previously parked or standing;
(f) so as to prevent or impede the ingress
to or egress from a metered parking space despite its use for any other
purpose;
(g) for the purpose of displaying the
vehicle for sale;
(h) for the purpose of greasing, or
repairing the vehicle except for such repairs as have been necessitated by an
emergency;
(i) for the purpose of stripping or
partially stripping the vehicle except for such stripping as has been
necessitated by an emergency;
(j) on the travelled portion of the roadway
where the roadway width is six (6 m) metres or less;
(k) subject to paragraph (l) hereof, on an
inner boulevard; or
(l) on a driveway within one (1 m) metre of
a sidewalk, or if there is no sidewalk, within three (3 m) metres of the
roadway.
PARKING PROHIBITED WITHOUT SIGNS – EXCEPTION
8. Despite
the provisions of paragraph (l) of Section 7, no person shall park a vehicle or
permit a vehicle to remain parked on a driveway within zero point three (0.3 m)
metres of the sidewalk on the west side of Lorne Avenue between one hundred and
nine (109 m) metres and one hundred and fifty-two (152 m) metres north of
Somerset Street.
PARKING REGULATIONS ‑ HIGHWAY CLEARING,
SNOW REMOVAL AND HIGHWAY CLEANING
9. No person shall park a
vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on any highway so as to interfere
in any manner with the work of:
(a) removing snow or ice,
(b) clearing of snow, or
(c) cleaning operations, including sweeping.
PARKING PROHIBITED ‑ SPECIFIED TIMES
AND PLACES ‑ SIGNS ‑ SCHEDULE
"I"
10. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked on any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively
in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "I" to this by‑law during the
times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "I.”
SPECIAL PARKING PROHIBITIONS ‑
CENTRAL CANADA EXHIBITION ‑ SCHEDULE
"II"
11. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked on any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively
in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "II" to this by‑law at any
time during the period between 8:00 a.m. on the opening day of the Central
Canada Exhibition and 8:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the closing of the
Central Canada Exhibition.
SPECIAL PARKING PROHIBITIONS ‑ CENTRAL CANADA EXHIBITION ‑ SCHEDULE
"III"
12. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked on any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively
in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "III" to this by‑law at any
time during the period between 8:00 a.m. on the third day prior to the opening
of the Central Canada Exhibition and 8:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the
closing of the Central Canada Exhibition.
STOPPING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES ‑ NO SIGNS
Establishment ‑
School Crosswalk Zone
13. (1) The parts of the highway,
(a) that are within thirty (30 m) metres of
the approach side of a school crosswalk designated by markings and authorized
school crosswalk signs; and
(b) that are within ten (10 m) metres of the
leaving side of a school crosswalk designated by markings and authorized school
crosswalk signs,
are hereby
established as a school crosswalk zone.
Offences
(2) No person shall stop a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain stopped on any highway:
(a) on or partly on or over a sidewalk;
(b) within
an intersection or crosswalk;
(c) between
the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. within a school crosswalk zone;
(d) adjacent
to or across from any excavation or obstruction in the roadway when the free
flow of traffic would thereby be impeded;
(e) on
the roadway side of any stopped or parked vehicle;
(f) upon
any bridge or elevated structure or within any tunnel or underpass or within
thirty (30 m) metres of either end of any such structure except where parking
in these locations is otherwise permitted by this by‑law;
(g) on any central boulevard or on any outer
boulevard or adjacent to either side or the ends of any central boulevard or
median strip, except when parking in these locations is otherwise permitted by
this by‑law;
(h) within
thirty (30 m) metres of the approach side of the nearest rail of any level
crossing of a railway; or
(i) within fifteen (15 m) metres of the
leaving side of the nearest rail of any level crossing of a railway.
STOPPING PROHIBITED WITH SIGNS
14. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
stopped on any highway:
(a) on either side
of a highway adjacent to a school, park or playground between the hours of 7:00
a.m. and 7:00 p.m., or
(b) within the turning basin of a
cul-de-sac.
15. (1) When official signs have been erected,
no person shall stop a vehicle or
permit a vehicle to remain stopped on any highway, at the side and between the
limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "IV"
to this by‑law during the times
or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "IV.”
(2) The provisions of paragraphs 14(a) and
14(b), and of subsection 15(1) of this by‑law relating to stopping do not
apply to prevent the stopping of a taxicab provided:
(a) it is operated under a valid taxi
license;
(b) its
stopping does not exceed forty-five (45) seconds; and
(c) it
is in the process of receiving or discharging passengers.
(3) The provisions of paragraphs 14(a) and
14(b), and of subsection 15(1) of this by‑law relating to stopping do not
apply to prevent the stopping of a motor vehicle for the purpose of and while
actually engaged in receiving or discharging a physically disabled person
provided that such motor vehicle has a valid disability parking permit
displayed upon its dashboard or on the sun visor in accordance with the
provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
STANDING AND PEAK HOUR PARKING PROHIBITIONS ‑
SPECIFIED PLACES ‑ SIGNS ‑ SCHEDULE
"V"
16. When official signs have
been erected, no person shall halt a vehicle or permit a vehicle to be halted,
whether occupied or not, except for the purpose of and while actually engaged
in receiving or discharging passengers on any highway at the side and between
the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "V"
to this by‑law during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said
Schedule "V.”
PARKING, STANDING AND STOPPING EXEMPTIONS ‑
FUNERAL CORTEGES AND BUSES
17. The provisions of this by‑law
relating to parking, standing and
stopping do not apply to prevent the parking, standing or stopping:
(a) of passenger motor vehicles forming part
of any funeral cortege, provided that all such vehicles are parked or stopped on only one side of a highway at one
time, or
(b) of buses operated by or for the City of
Ottawa at a bus stop established by the City of Ottawa.
Specified
Parking Period – Specified Highways ‑ Schedule "VI"
18. (1) When official signs have been erected,
no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on a
highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2
and 3 of Schedule "VI" to
this by‑law during the times or days set out in column 4 of the
said Schedule "VI" for a longer period of time than is set out in
column 5 of the said Schedule "VI.”
General Limit
(2) Subject to the
other provisions of this by‑law, no person shall park a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain parked on a highway for a period of time longer than three
(3) hours between 7:00 a.m. of one day and 7:00 p.m. of the same day.
Parking
Limitation on Adjacent Areas
(3) No person
shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on a highway within
one (1) hour from the time of its removal from a part of highway referred to in
subsections (1), (2) and (6) within three hundred (300 m) metres of such part
of highway.
Parking Limitation on Vehicles
Exceeding Six and One-Half (6.5m) Metres in Length and School Buses
(4) No person
shall park a vehicle exceeding six and one-half (6.5 m) metres in length or school
bus or permit a vehicle exceeding six and one-half (6.5 m) metres in length or
school bus to remain parked on a highway at any time between 9:00 p.m. of one
day and 7:00 a.m. of the next following day.
Parking Limitation on Vehicles
Exceeding Six and One-half (6.5 m) Metres in Length and School Buses –
Exemption
(5) Subject to the
other provisions of this by-law, the provisions of subsection (4) shall not
apply to vehicles exceeding six and one-half (6.5 m) metres in length or school
buses parked on designated truck routes established pursuant to subsection (2)
of Section 69 of this by-law and set out in Schedule “XL.”
Overnight Winter Parking Prohibition
(6) No person shall park a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain parked on a highway at any time between 1:00 a.m. and 7:00
a.m. from November 15 to April 1.
(7) The provisions of subsection (6) shall
not come into effect, until the General Manager has received a report from the
Environment Canada Atmospheric Environment Service or the City of Ottawa's
Weather Consultant which forecasts an accumulation of snow of seven (7 cm)
centimetres or more, or a range of accumulation of snow which includes seven
(7cm) centimetres or more.
(8) The General Manager may,
(a)
suspend the operation of subsection
(6) provided that in his or her opinion,
the fall or accumulation of snow, ice or rain is such as not to unduly
interfere with the snow and ice removal functions, regular highway maintenance
or the proper use and movement of vehicles on the highway; or
(b) reinstate the operation
of subsection (6) as provided for in subsection (7).
(9) The provisions of subsection (6) shall
not apply to a motor vehicle,
(a)
displaying a valid Residential
Parking Permit issued by the City of Ottawa,
(b)
parked within the permit parking area for which
the said permit has been issued, and
(c)
parked on part of the highway designated for permit parking.
(10) The provisions of subsection (4) shall not
apply to a tour bus parked in a Tour Bus Zone established pursuant to Section
47.
ANGLE PARKING
Pavement
Markings
19. (1) Where an angle parking space is
designated by lines or other markings on the roadway, or otherwise, no person
shall stop, stand or park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or standing
therein except entirely within the area so designated as a parking space.
Angle
(2) Where angle parking is permitted on a
highway, no person shall stop, stand or park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to
remain parked or standing except at the angle designated by signs or markings
on the roadway.
Method of Parking
(3) Where angle parking on a highway other
than at an angle of 90 degrees to the curb or edge of roadway is permitted, no
person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on such
highway except with the front end of the vehicle at the curb or edge of the
roadway.
Highways for Angle Parking ‑
Schedule "VII"
(4) No person shall park a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain parked at an angle on a highway except on the highways, at
the sides and between the limits set out
respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "VII" to this
by‑law.
PARKING METER ZONES ‑ Schedule "VIII"
20. (1) The City of Ottawa hereby authorizes the
erection, maintenance and operation of parking meters on the highways at the
sides and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of
Schedule "VIII" to this by‑law for the purpose of controlling
and regulating parking during the days and hours set out in column 4 of the
said Schedule "VIII" and the City of Ottawa shall designate parking
meter spaces in connection with such meters.
(2) No person shall park a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain parked on any highway at the side and between the limits
set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule "VIII" to this
by‑law unless such vehicle is
parked entirely within an area designated as a parking meter space.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the
area designated as a parking meter space may be a specific area located on the
roadway within a parking meter space and identified as a space for motorcycles.
(4) Where a parking meter
space for motorcycles is designated pursuant to subsection (3), it does not
preclude motor vehicles from parking in the parking meter space.
USE OF METER
21. Where parking meters have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked in a parking meter space on any highway at the side and between the
limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of the said Schedule
"VIII" to this by‑law during the days and hours set out in
column 4 of the said Schedule, unless:
(a) the meter controlling such parking space
is used,
(b) a fee is deposited therein in accordance
with,
(i) the rate per hour as set out in column
5 of Schedule "VIII,” and
(ii) the denomination of coin requirement
indicated on the meter, and
(c) the meter is activated by,
(i) turning the handle, or
(ii) depositing a coin, and
(d) the meter indicates unexpired time paid
for in accordance with the rate per hour.
MAXIMUM
METERED PARKING TIME LIMIT
22. Where parking meters have
been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked in a parking meter space on the highway at the side and between the
limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of the said Schedule
"VIII" during the days and hours set out in column 4 of the said
Schedule "VIII" for a longer period than set out in column 6 of the
said Schedule "VIII."
VIOLATION AND TIME EXPIRED SIGNAL ‑ EFFECT
23. For the purposes of
Sections 21 and 22 of this by‑law, the fact that a parking meter
governing a parking space displays a violation or time expired meter signal or
flag is prima facie evidence that such vehicle is unlawfully parked.
HOODED METERS
24. No person shall park a
vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in a parking meter space if the
parking meter has been covered with a parking meter hood.
MANNER OF PARKING AT METER
25. Where parking meters have
been installed under the authority of this by‑law, no person shall park a
vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain
parked in a parking meter space unless:
(a) where parallel parking is permitted, the
front wheels of such vehicle are opposite to the parking meter provided for
such space;
(b) where parallel parking is permitted and
two (2) meters are mounted on the same standard, the rear of the forward
vehicle shall be opposite or as close as is practicable to the forward parking
meter and the front of the rear vehicle shall be opposite or as close as is
practicable to the rear parking meter; or
(c) where angle parking is permitted, the
front of the vehicle shall be opposite or as close as is practicable to the
parking meter provided for such parking meter space.
VEHICLE TO BE WITHIN ONE OR MORE SPACES
26. No person shall park a
vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in such a manner that it is not
wholly within the area designated as a parking space unless the vehicle is of
such length as to render it impossible to park it in one (1) parking space, in
which case the adjoining parking space or spaces may, in addition, be used if
the required coin deposits are made in the parking meters provided for all
parking spaces used by the vehicle.
COINS ACCEPTABLE
27. No person shall deposit
or cause to be deposited in any parking meter:
(a) any slug, device or other substitute for
a coin of Canada or of the United States of America, or
(b) any coin, except a coin of Canada or of
the United States of America, which the meter is designed to accommodate.
UNEXPIRED TIME ON METERS
28. Subject to Section 18,
this by‑law shall not prevent the driver of a vehicle from using the
unexpired time remaining on a parking meter from its previous user without
depositing a coin therefore.
DAMAGE TO METER ‑ OFFENCE
29. No person shall damage,
deface, or tamper with any parking meter or part thereof or otherwise impair
its full usefulness.
PAY AND DISPLAY PARKING MACHINE ZONES –
SCHEDULE “IX”
(2) No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule “IX” to this by-law unless such vehicle is parked entirely within the area designated as a pay and display parking machine space.
USE
OF PAY AND DISPLAY PARKING MACHINES
31. Where pay and display parking machines have been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in a pay and display parking machine space on any highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of the said Schedule “IX” to this by-law during the days and hours set out in column 4 of the said Schedule, unless:
(a) the pay and display parking machine controlling the pay and display parking machine space is used and a fee has been deposited in the pay and display parking machine in accordance with the rate per hour set out in column 5 of Schedule “IX” and the machine is activated; and
(b) the receipt issued by the pay and display parking machine is placed upon the vehicle’s dashboard while the vehicle is parked in the pay and display parking machine space in a position so that writing and markings on the receipt face outward so as to be easily seen from outside the vehicle.
MAXIMUM
PARKING TIME LIMIT
32. Where pay and display parking machines have been erected, no person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in a pay and display parking machine space on the highway at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of the said Schedule “IX” during the days and hours set out in column 4 of the said Schedule “IX” for a longer period than that set out in column 6 of the said Schedule “IX.”
EXPIRED
TIME – EFFECT
33. For the purposes of Sections 31 and 32 of this by-law, the fact that the parking duration authorized by the receipt has expired is prima facie evidence that such vehicle is unlawfully parked.
VEHICLES
TO BE WITHIN ONE OR MORE SPACES
34. No person shall park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked in such a manner that it is not wholly within the area designated as a pay and display parking machine space unless the vehicle is of such length as to render it impossible to park it in one (1) pay and display parking machine space, in which case the adjoining pay and display parking machine space or spaces may, in addition, be used if the required fee has been deposited and receipt displayed for all pay and display parking machine spaces used by the vehicle.
COINS
ACCEPTABLE
35. No person shall deposit or cause to be deposited in any pay and display parking machine:
(a) any slug, device or other substitute for a coin of Canada or of the United States of America, or
(b) any coin, except a coin of Canada or of the United States of America, which the pay and display parking machine is designed to accommodate.
DAMAGE
TO PAY AND DISPLAY PARKING MACHINE - OFFENCE
36. No person shall deface, conceal, damage, tamper with, open or willfully break, destroy or impair the usefulness of any pay and display parking machine or part thereof.
PART
III
LOADING ZONES – BUS ZONES – BUS TIME POINT ZONES –
SCHOOL BUS LOADING ZONES – TAXI ZONES – POLICE VEHICLE ZONES – HOTEL LOADING
ZONES – BOOKMOBILE ZONES – DIPLOMATIC LOADING ZONES – MOTORCYCLE ZONES –
TOUR BUS ZONES – EXCURSION LOADING ZONES
LOADING ZONES
Establishment
‑ Schedule "X"
37. (1) The parts of highways at the side having
the length and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2, 3, and
4 of Schedule "X" are hereby established as Loading Zones during the
times or days set out in column 5 of the said Schedule "X."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a loading zone except for the purpose of, and while actually engaged
in, loading thereon or unloading therefrom, passengers, freight or merchandise.
BUS ZONES
Designation
38. (1) The City of Ottawa hereby authorizes the
establishment of bus stops on highways.
A bus stop shall be conclusively deemed to have been established when an
authorized sign or marker has been erected.
Bus
Zones
(2) The parts of the highway,
(a) that are within thirty‑four (34 m)
metres of a bus stop on the approach side thereof, and
(b) that are within eighteen (18 m) metres
of a bus stop on the leaving side thereof,
are
hereby established as Bus Zones.
Stopping
Prohibited
(3) No person shall stop a vehicle or permit
a vehicle to remain stopped in a bus
zone.
Exemption
(4) This section does not apply to a bus of
the City of Ottawa.
BUS TIME POINT ZONES
Establishment
‑ Schedule "XI"
39. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XI" are hereby established as Bus Time Point Zones during the times
or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XI."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a bus time point zone other than a public transit motor vehicle.
SCHOOL BUS LOADING ZONES
Establishment
- Schedule "XII"
40. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XII" are hereby established as School Bus Loading Zones for use
during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule
"XII."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a school bus loading zone other than a school bus.
TAXI ZONES
Establishment
‑ Schedule "XIII"
41. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XIII" are hereby established as Taxi Zones for use by taxicabs
during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XIII."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a taxi zone, other than a taxicab waiting for hire or engagement.
(3) No person shall park or stop a taxicab
in a taxicab zone unless the taxicab is occupied by the driver and waiting for
hire.
POLICE VEHICLE ZONES
Establishment -
Schedule "XIV"
42. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XIV" are hereby established as Police Vehicle Zones during the times
or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XIV."
Regulation of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a police vehicle zone other than a police vehicle.
HOTEL LOADING ZONES
Establishment
‑ Schedule "XV"
43. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XV" are hereby established as Hotel Loading Zones during the times
or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XV."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a hotel loading zone other than,
(a) a tour bus or taxicab while actively
engaged in loading or unloading hotel patrons; or
(b) a vehicle owned or operated by a hotel
patron.
Time
Limit
(3) Despite subsection (2)(b), no person
shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or stopped in
a hotel loading zone for a period exceeding fifteen (15) minutes.
Exemption
(4) Subsections (2) and (3) hereof shall not
apply to a tour bus from 1:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
44. (1) The parts of
highways at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1,
2 and 3 of Schedule “XVI” are hereby established as Bookmobile Zones during the
times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule “XVI.”
(2) When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall park or stop a vehicle or
permit a vehicle to remain or stopped in a bookmobile zone, other than a
bookmobile.
45. (1) The
parts of highways at the sides and between the limits set out respectively in
columns 2, 3 and 4 of Schedule “XVII” are hereby established as Diplomatic
Loading Zones for the Embassy described in column 1 during the times or days
set out in column 5 of the said Schedule “XVII.”
(2) When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall park or stop a vehicle or
permit a vehicle to remain parked or stopped in a diplomatic loading zone,
other than a motor vehicle bearing official diplomatic corps license plates.
(3) No
person shall park or stop or permit the parking or stopping of a vehicle
bearing official diplomatic corps license plates in a diplomatic loading zone
except for the purpose of and while actively engaged in loading thereon or
unloading therefrom passengers, freight or merchandise.
Establishment
– Schedule “XVIII”
46. (1) The
parts of highways at the side and between the limits set out respectively in
columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule “XVIII” are hereby established as Motorcycle
Zones during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule
“XVIII.”
Regulation
of Use
(2) When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall park or stop a vehicle or
permit a vehicle to remain parked or stopped in a motorcycle zone, other than a
motorcycle.
Establishment
– Schedule “XIX”
47. (1) The parts of
highways at the side and between the limits set out respectively in columns 1,
2 and 3 of the Schedule “XIX are hereby established as Tour Bus Zones during
the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule “XIX.”
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in a tour bus zone, other than a tour bus.
Establishment -
Schedule "XX"
48. (1) The parts of highways at the side and
between the limits set out respectively in columns 1, 2 and 3 of Schedule
"XX" are hereby established as Excursion Loading Zones during the
times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XX."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall park or stop a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked or
stopped in an excursion loading zone other than a tour bus or a taxicab waiting
for hire or engagement.
PART
IV
TRAFFIC MOVEMENTS – TURNS – STOPS – YIELD – MULTI‑LANED
HIGHWAYS –TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS – ONE‑WAY HIGHWAYS – RESERVED BUS LANES
–RESERVED BICYCLE LANES – RESERVED HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV) LANES
49. (1) The highways set out in column 1 of
Schedule "XXI" to this by‑law between the limits set out in
column 2 of the said Schedule "XXI" are, except as provided in
subsection 2 hereof, hereby designated as through highways for the purpose of
the Highway Traffic Act.
(2) The designation in subsection (1) hereof
of a highway or part of a highway as a through highway shall not include any
intersection thereon where the highway intersected is a King's Highway or where
traffic control signals are installed.
STOP SIGNS AT INTERSECTIONS ‑
Schedule "XXII"
50. The City of Ottawa shall
erect stop signs at the intersections set out in column 1 of Schedule
"XXII" of this by‑law facing traffic proceeding in the
direction set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXII" on the
highway or part of highway set out in column 3 of the said Schedule
"XXII."
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS -
Schedule "XXIII"
51. The City of Ottawa shall
erect and operate traffic control signals at the intersections and locations
named and described in Schedule "XXIII" to this by‑law, subject
to the provisions of subsections 144(31) and 144(32) of the Highway Traffic
Act.
52. The City of Ottawa shall erect and operate pedestrian signals
on the parts of highways set out in column 1 of Schedule “XXIV” of this by-law
at the locations set out in column 2 of the said Schedule “XXIV.”
53. The City of Ottawa shall erect and operate a combination of
stop signs and traffic control signals at the intersections and locations set
out in column 1 of Schedule “XXV” of this by-law with the stop controls facing
traffic proceeding in the direction set out in column 2 of the said Schedule
“XXV” and the traffic control signals facing traffic proceeding in the
direction set out in column 3 of the said Schedule “XXV.”
YIELD SIGNS AT INTERSECTIONS ‑
Schedule "XXVI"
54. The City of Ottawa shall
erect yield right‑of‑way signs at each of the intersections set out
in column 1 of Schedule "XXVI" to this by‑law for the control
of traffic entering the intersection in the direction set out in column 3 of
the said Schedule "XXVI" and from the highway set out in column 2 of
the said Schedule "XXVI."
U‑TURNS
55. Where a U‑turn is
not otherwise prohibited under this by‑law or the Highway Traffic Act,
no person shall make such a turn when it cannot be made in safety or without
interfering with other traffic.
PROHIBITED MOVEMENTS –
Schedule "XXVII"
56. When official or
authorized signs, as required by the Highway Traffic Act, have been
erected, no person shall drive a vehicle in any intersection, or part of a
highway or on property, set out in column 1 of Schedule "XXVII" to
this by‑law proceeding in the direction or emerging from a property in
the direction set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXVII" and
turn or proceed in the direction set out in column 3 of the said Schedule
"XXVII" during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said
Schedule "XXVII,” other than vehicles set out as exceptions in column 4 of
the said Schedule "XXVII."
ONE‑WAY HIGHWAYS –
Schedule "XXVIII"
57. The highways set out in
column 1 of Schedule "XXVIII" to this by‑law between the limits
set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXVIII" during the times or
days set out in column 3 of the said Schedule "XXVIII" are
established as One‑Way Highways for the passing of vehicles only in the
direction set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXVIII."
CENTRAL CANADA EXHIBITION –
58. The highways set out in
column 1 of Schedule "XXIX" to this
by‑law between the limits set out in column 2 of the said Schedule
"XXIX" are established as One‑Way Highways for the passing of
vehicles only in the direction set out in column 3 of the said Schedule
"XXIX" during the period between 8:00 a.m. three (3) days prior to
the opening of the Central Canada Exhibition and 8:00 a.m. on the Monday next
following the closing of the Central Canada Exhibition.
TRAFFIC CIRCLES
59. No person shall drive any
animal or vehicle otherwise than in a counter clockwise direction in any
traffic circle.
MULTIPLE LANED HIGHWAYS –
Schedule "XXX"
60. When official signs have
been erected, the lanes set out in
column 3 of Schedule "XXX," on the highway set out in column 1
of the said Schedule "XXX," between the limits set out in column 2 of
the said Schedule "XXX," are designated for the traffic movements set
out in column 5 of said Schedule "XXX" during the times or days set
out in column 4 of said Schedule "XXX" other than vehicles set out as
exceptions in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXX."
RESERVED BUS LANES
Establishment
‑ Schedule "XXXI"
61. (1) The lanes set out in column 3 of
Schedule "XXXI," on the highway set out in column 1 of the said
Schedule "XXXI," between the limits set out in column 2 of the said
Schedule "XXXI" are hereby established as Reserved Bus Lanes during
the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXI."
Regulation
of Use
(2) When official signs have been erected,
no person shall:
(a) drive or permit to be driven any
vehicle, other than a public transit motor vehicle, on any lane or part of lane
established as a Reserved Bus Lane under subsection (1) hereof; or
(b) stop or permit to remain stopped any
vehicle, other than a public transit motor vehicle, on any lane or part of lane
established as a Reserved Bus Lane under subsection (1) hereof.
Exemption
(3) Subsection (2) hereof shall not apply to
prevent:
(a) a vehicle making a right hand turn
provided the vehicle does not enter the Reserved Bus Lane at a point farther
from the point of making the right hand turn than the distance set out in
column 5 of Schedule "XXXI" opposite such Reserved Bus Lane,
(b) the driver of a taxicab, operating under
a valid taxi license, from stopping for a period of not more than forty-five
(45) seconds for the purpose of and while in the process of receiving or
discharging passengers, provided that such taxicab shall not be stopped in a
lane set out in column 3 of Schedule "XXXI" during the times or days
set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXI" in such a manner as
to interfere with the movement of a public transit motor vehicle,
(c) the stopping of a motor vehicle for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging a physically
disabled person, provided that:
(i) such motor vehicle shall not be stopped
in a lane set out in column 3 of Schedule "XXXI" during the times or
days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXI" in such a manner
as to interfere with the movement of a public transit motor vehicle, and
(ii) such motor vehicle has a valid
disability parking permit displayed upon its dashboard or on the sun visor in
accordance with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
(d) the operation of a transit motor vehicle
operating in accordance with a license issued under the Public Vehicles Act
or under agreement with the City of Ottawa provided the owner of the transit
motor vehicle has obtained a permit from the General Manager to operate in a
reserved bus lane,
(e) the operation of an authorized vehicle,
or
(f) the operation of a bicycle or taxicab
operating under a valid taxi license when permitted by authorized signs as set
out in column 6 of Schedule “XXXI.”
Establishment ‑ Schedule
"XXXII"
62. (1) Despite the provisions of paragraphs
95(1)(a) and 95(2)(a), the lanes set out in column 3 of Schedule
"XXXII" on the highway set out in column 1 of said Schedule
"XXXII" between the limits set out in column 2 of said Schedule
"XXXII" are hereby established as Reserved Bicycle Lanes for bicycles
travelling in the direction indicated in column 5 of said Schedule
"XXXII" during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said
Schedule "XXXII."
Regulation of Use
(2) When authorized signs have been erected,
no person shall:
(a) drive or permit to be driven any
vehicle, other than a bicycle, on any lane or part of lane established as a
Reserved Bicycle Lane under subsection (1) hereof; or
(b) stop
or permit to remain stopped any vehicle, other than a bicycle, on any lane or
part of lane established as a Reserved Bicycle Lane under subsection (1)
hereof.
Exemption
(3) Subsection
(2) shall not apply to prevent:
(a) a
vehicle making a right‑hand turn, or a left‑hand turn from a one‑way
highway, provided the vehicle does not enter the Reserved Bicycle Lane at a
point farther from the point of making the right‑hand turn or left‑hand
turn than the distance set out in column 6 of Schedule "XXXII"
opposite such Reserved Bicycle Lane;
(b) the driver of a taxicab, operating under
a valid taxi license, from stopping
for a period of not more than
forty-five (45) seconds for the purpose of and while in the process of
receiving or discharging passengers, provided that such taxicab shall not be
stopped in a lane set out in column 3 of Schedule "XXXII" during the
times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXII" in
such a manner as to interfere with the movement of a bicycle; or
(c) the stopping of a motor vehicle for the
purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging a physically
disabled person, provided that:
(i) such motor vehicle shall not be stopped
in a lane set out in column 3 of Schedule "XXXII" during the times or
days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXII" in such a
manner as to interfere with the movement of a bicycle, and
(ii) such motor vehicle has a valid
disability parking permit displayed upon its dashboard or on the sun visor in
accordance with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act, or
(d) a vehicle pulled over for emergency
purposes or repairs.
RESERVED
HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE (HOV) LANES
Establishment - Schedule “XXXIII”
63. (1) The lanes set out in column 3 of
Schedule “XXXIII,” on the highway set out in column 1 of the said Schedule
“XXXIII,” between the limits set out in column 2 of the said Schedule “XXXIII”
are hereby established as Reserved High-Occupancy Vehicle Lanes during the
times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule ”XXXIII.”
Regulation of Use
(2) When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall:
(a)
drive or permit to be driven any vehicle, other than a high-occupancy
vehicle carrying the minimum number of persons shown on the authorized signs
and set out in column 5 of the said Schedule “XXXIII”; or
(b)
stop or permit to remain stopped any vehicle, other than a public
transit motor vehicle,
on any lane or part of lane
established as a Reserved High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane under subsection (1)
hereof.
Exemption
(3) Subsection (2) hereof shall not apply to
prevent:
(a) a vehicle making a right hand turn
provided the vehicle does not enter the Reserved High-Occupancy Vehicle Lane at
a point farther from the point of making the right hand turn than the distance
set out in column 6 of Schedule “XXXIII” opposite such Reserved High-Occupancy
Vehicle Lane;
(b) the
driver of a taxicab, operating under a valid taxi license, from stopping for a
period of not more than forty-five (45) seconds for the purpose of and while in
the process of receiving or discharging passengers, provided that such taxicab
shall not be stopped in a lane set out in column 3 of Schedule “XXXIII” during
the times or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule “XXXIII” in such a
manner as to interfere with the movement of a high-occupancy vehicle;
(c)
the stopping of a motor vehicle for the purpose of and while actually
engaged in receiving or discharging a physically disabled person, provided
that:
(i)
such motor vehicle shall not be stopped in a lane set out in column 3
of Schedule “XXXIII” during the times or days set out in column 4 of the said
Schedule “XXXIII” in such a manner as to interfere with the movement of a
high-occupancy vehicle; and
(ii)
such motor vehicle has a valid disability parking permit displayed upon
its dashboard or on the sun visor in accordance with the provisions of the Highway
Traffic Act.
(d) the operation of an authorized vehicle,
or
(e) the
operation of a bicycle when permitted by authorized signs.
PART V
CONTROLLED-ACCESS ROADS
CONTROLLED-ACCESS
ROADS
Establishment - Schedule “XXXIV”
64. (1) The highways set out in column 1 of
Schedule “XXXIV” to this by-law between the limits set out in column 2 of the
said Schedule “XXXIV” are hereby designated as Controlled-Access Roads.
Regulation of Use
(2) No
person shall:
(a)
sell, offer or expose for sale any vegetables, fruit or other produce
or any goods or merchandise upon a controlled-access road; or
(b)
construct or use any private road, entranceway, gate or other structure
or facility as a means of access to a controlled-access road.
Direction to Close
(3) The
General Manager may give notice to the owner of land to close up any private
road, entranceway, gate or other structure or facility constructed or used as a
means of access to a controlled-access road in contravention of paragraph
64(2)(b).
(4)
Where the person to whom notice is given under subsection (3) fails to
comply with the notice within 30 days after its receipt, the General Manager
may close up the private road, entranceway, gate or other structure or
facility, as required by the notice, at the cost of the land owner.
PEDESTRIANS
PROHIBITED ON
CONTROLLED-ACCESS
ROADS - Schedule “XXXV”
65. (1) When
official signs have been erected, no pedestrian shall enter on the highways set
out in column 1 of
Schedule “XXXV” to this by-law between the limits set out in
column 2 of the said
Schedule “XXXV.”
Exemption
(2) Subsection
(1) shall not apply to pedestrians:
(a)
engaged in police duties, highway maintenance or construction duties;
or
(b)
making use of a controlled-access road where the use is necessary
because of an emergency.
PART VI
SPEED
REGULATIONS
INCREASED AND
DECREASED SPEED LIMITS ‑
Schedule
"XXXVI"
66. When any
highway set out in column 1 of Schedule "XXXVI" to this by‑law,
between the limits set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXXVI,” is
marked in compliance with the regulations under the Highway Traffic Act,
the maximum rate of speed on such highway or part of highway shall be the rate
of speed set out in column 3 of the said Schedule "XXXVI."
DECREASED SPEED
LIMITS IN PARKS ‑
Schedule
"XXXVII"
67. When
signs have been erected at the vehicular entrances to any public park or
exhibition grounds, set out in column 1 of Schedule "XXXVII," the
maximum rate of speed in such public park or exhibition grounds shall be the
rate of speed set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXXVII."
DECREASED SPEED
LIMITS ON BRIDGES ‑
Schedule
"XXXVIII"
68. When
signs have been erected, no person shall drive, move or operate any vehicle on
a bridge or part of bridge set out in column 1 of Schedule "XXXVIII"
at a greater rate of speed than the rate of speed set out in column 2 of the
said Schedule "XXXVIII" during the times or days set out in column 3 of
the said Schedule "XXXVIII."
DECREASED SPEED
LIMITS ADJACENT
TO SCHOOLS ‑
SCHEDULE "XXXIX"
69. When any
highway set out in column 1 of Schedule "XXXIX" to this by‑law,
between the limits set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XXXIX,"
is marked in compliance with the regulations under the Highway Traffic Act,
the maximum rate of speed on such highway or part of highway shall be the rate
of speed set out in column 3 of the said Schedule "XXXIX" during the
time or days set out in column 4 of the said Schedule "XXXIX."
PART VII
HEAVY
TRAFFIC
HEAVY TRUCKS
PROHIBITED ‑ Schedule "XL"
70. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person
shall drive or cause to be driven any heavy truck on any highway or part of a
highway under the jurisdiction of the City of Ottawa.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not prevent the
operation of any heavy truck on a highway set out in column 1 of Schedule
"XL" to this by‑law between the limits set out in column 2 of
said Schedule "XL" and during the times or days set out in column 3
of the said Schedule "XL,” which highways or parts of highways are herein
referred to as "truck routes."
(3) Despite subsection (2), a time
restriction on a truck route shall not apply to prevent the operation of any heavy
truck owned by the City of Ottawa or a private contractor working for same
during winter maintenance operations.
DEVIATIONS FROM
TRUCK ROUTES
Deviations
Permitted
71. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3),
Section 70 shall not apply to prevent the deviation from a truck route for the
following purposes:
(a) deliveries by a heavy truck to premises
not abutting a truck route,
(b) the performance of services requiring a
heavy truck at premises not abutting a truck route,
(c) a heavy truck proceeding to or from a
garage or other premises not abutting a truck route for the purpose of housing,
storing or repairing such heavy truck, and
(d) the performance of public services by the
City of Ottawa or a local board thereof.
Deviations to be Direct
(2) Every such deviation shall be made from the point on a truck
route nearest by highway distance to the premises or location of performance of
services referred to in subsection (1).
Successive Deliveries
(3) When successive deliveries are to be
made in an area bounded by truck routes, after the last such delivery, the
heavy truck shall be driven to the nearest truck route.
HEAVY TRUCKS AND
BUSES – CURB LANE -
Schedule
"XLI"
72. (1) When official signs have been erected,
no person shall drive, move or operate a heavy truck or bus on any highway set
out in column 1 of Schedule "XLI" between the limits set out in
column 2 of the said Schedule "XLI" when proceeding in the direction
set out in column 3 of the said Schedule "XLI" except in the traffic
lane nearest to the right hand curb or side of the roadway.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to
prohibit the driving, moving or operating of a heavy truck or bus in a traffic
lane other than the lane nearest the right‑hand curb or side of the
roadway in preparation for a left‑hand turn or when overtaking and
passing another vehicle or an obstruction.
RESTRICTED LOADS ON
HIGHWAYS ‑
Schedule
"XLII"
73. (1) When official signs have been erected
and are on display, the provisions of Section 122 of the Highway Traffic Act
shall extend and apply to all highways, except the highways set out in column 1
of Schedule "XLII" between the limits set out in column 2 of the said
Schedule "XLII," from the first day of March to the fifteenth day of
May in each and every year.
(2)
Despite subsection (1), the General Manager is hereby authorized to
erect the official signs either before or after the first day of March and to
remove the official signs either before or after the fifteenth day of May in
each and every year in response to extraordinary weather conditions.
Limitation
(3) Subsection
(1) shall not apply to a highway or part of a highway that is an extension of
the route of the King's Highway through or in the City of Ottawa except at such
times as the said Section 122 applies to the King's Highways of which any such
highway is an extension.
HEAVY LOADS ‑
SPECIAL PERMITS
74. The
General Manager is hereby authorized to grant a permit to exempt a heavy truck
from the axle weight restriction specified in Section 122 of the Highway
Traffic Act on a highway under the jurisdiction of the City of Ottawa
during the period that official signs are erected pursuant to Section 73.
PART
VIII
DRIVING
AND RELATED RULES
EMERGING FROM LANES
75. The
driver or operator of a vehicle emerging from a driveway, laneway, lot,
building or bus loop onto a highway shall, upon driving onto a sidewalk, yield
the right‑of‑way to pedestrians upon such sidewalk.
BARRICADED HIGHWAYS
76. No person
shall drive, operate or park a vehicle or permit a vehicle to remain parked on
any part of any highway barricaded and marked by signs showing that its use for
the time is prohibited or restricted.
COASTING ON
ROADWAYS
77. No person
shall coast on a roadway, whether on a sleigh, skateboard, rollerskate, in-line
skate, cart, children's wagon or toboggan.
TRAFFIC CONTROL AT
FIRES
78. (1) No person shall drive a vehicle other
than a Police Service or Fire Service vehicle on any highway within ninety (90
m) metres of a fire, fire apparatus or fire‑fighting equipment, except as
directed by a constable or officer of the Ottawa Fire Service.
(2) Unless directed by a constable or
officer of the Ottawa Fire Service, no person shall drive a vehicle over a fire
hose on any highway.
TRAFFIC
CONTROL AT A COLLISION SCENE
Offer Of Services
79. (1) No person shall make or convey an offer
of services of a tow truck while that person is within one hundred (100 m)
metres of,
(a) the
scene of a collision or apparent collision; or
(b) a vehicle involved in a collision,
on a highway.
Tow Truck Parking
(2) No person shall park a tow truck or
permit a tow truck to remain parked on a highway within one hundred (100 m)
metres of,
(a) the
scene of a collision or apparent collision; or
(b) a vehicle involved in a collision.
Exemption
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) shall not apply
to a person who is at the scene of a collision at the request of a constable, a
municipal by-law enforcement officer, a person engaged in highway maintenance,
or a person involved in the collision.
RACING PROHIBITED
80. No person
shall drive a vehicle on a highway in a race or on a bet or wager.
VEHICLES
OBSTRUCTING TRAFFIC
81. (1) No person driving or operating a vehicle
approaching a circular green or green arrow traffic control signal‑light
at an intersection shall enter the intersection unless traffic in front of the
said person is moving in a manner that would reasonably lead him or her to
believe he or she can clear the intersection before the traffic control signal‑light
turns red.
(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to the
driver or operator of a vehicle who enters an intersection for the purpose of
turning to the right or left into an intersecting highway and signals his or
her intention to make such turn prior to entering the intersection.
(3) No person shall drive, park or stop a
vehicle on a highway in such a manner as to obstruct traffic.
EMERGENCY AND
SPECIAL REGULATIONS
82. Despite
any provisions of this by‑law to the contrary, a police officer or the
General Manager may, during any emergency or special circumstance, by the
erection of appropriate signs or signals, prohibit or regulate the movement of
vehicles on any highway or part of a highway and no person shall drive or
operate a vehicle in contravention of any such sign or signal.
FUNERAL AND OTHER
PROCESSIONS
83. (1) No person shall, except under the
direction of a police officer, drive or operate a vehicle on a highway between
vehicles comprising a funeral cortege or other procession recognizable as such
by the display of pennants or other identifying insignia while the vehicles in
such procession are in motion.
(2) No person shall drive a vehicle in a
funeral cortege or other procession on a highway except as near to the right‑hand
edge of the roadway as is practicable and follow the vehicle ahead as close as
is practicable and safe.
VEHICLES CROSSING
SIDEWALKS, BOULEVARDS AND CURBS
Vehicles on Sidewalks Prohibited
84. (1) No person shall drive a vehicle or ride
upon a skateboard, rollerskates or in-line skates on a sidewalk except for the
purpose of directly crossing the sidewalk.
Curb and Sidewalk Depressions
(2) No person shall drive a vehicle over a
raised curb or sidewalk except at a place where there is a ramp, rolled curb or
depressed curb.
Vehicles
on Boulevards Prohibited
(3) No person shall drive a vehicle on a boulevard except for the
purpose of directly crossing a boulevard at a driveway or other designated
vehicular crossing.
Exemption
(4)
Subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall not apply to wheelchairs, baby
carriages, children’s tricycles, children’s wagons or handcarts used for
vending.
Bicycles on Sidewalks Permitted ‑
Schedule "XLIII"
(5)
Subsection (1) shall not apply to prevent the driving of bicycles on
the sidewalks indicated in column 2 of Schedule "XLIII" on the
highway set out in column 1 of said Schedule "XLIII" between the
limits set out in column 3 of said Schedule "XLIII" in the direction
set out in column 4 of said Schedule "XLIII."
Bicycles
to Yield
(6)
Despite the provisions of subsection (5), a person driving a bicycle on
a sidewalk shall yield the right‑of‑way to any pedestrian and shall
give an audible signal before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
Pedestrian
Obligation
(7)
Nothing in this section shall relieve the pedestrian from the
obligation of taking all due care to avoid a collision.
Bicycles on Outer or Inner
Boulevards
Permitted ‑
Schedule "XLIV"
(8) Subsection (3) shall not apply to prevent the driving of
bicycles on the boulevard indicated in column 2 of Schedule "XLIV" on
the highway set out in column 1 of said Schedule "XLIV" between the
limits set out in column 3 of said Schedule "XLIV" in the direction
set out in column 4 of said Schedule "XLIV."
Bicycles to Yield
(9)
Despite subsection (8), a person driving a bicycle on a boulevard shall
yield the right of way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible signal
before overtaking and passing such pedestrian.
BOARDING AND
ALIGHTING FROM MOVING VEHICLES
85. No person
shall board or alight from any vehicle while such vehicle is in motion.
OBEDIENCE TO POLICE
OFFICERS, SIGNS AND TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS
86. Despite
any provisions of this by‑law, every person shall promptly obey all
signals given by a traffic control signal, traffic control device or an
authorized or official sign and all directions given by a police officer and
nothing in this by‑law shall affect the powers to regulate traffic held
by the Ottawa Police Services Board.
MUNICIPAL VEHICLES
PERFORMING WORK ON HIGHWAYS ‑ EXEMPTION
87. The
provisions of Part VI and the provisions of subsection 81(3) and Section 84 do
not apply to vehicles of the City of Ottawa while such vehicles are engaged in
the performance of cleaning, clearing, maintenance, repair, construction or
other work on any highway.
EMERGENCY VEHICLES ‑
EXEMPTION
88. Parts I,
II, III, and VII and Sections 76, 78, 83 and 84, and subsection 81(3) shall
not, in the case of emergency, apply to ambulances or police, fire or Emergency
and Protective Services Department vehicles.
DISABILITY PARKING
PERMIT ‑ EXEMPTIONS
89. (1) The provisions of Sections 21, 23, 31
and 33 of this by‑law shall not apply to a motor vehicle displaying a
valid disability parking permit upon its dashboard or on the sun visor in accordance
with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
(2) Despite the provisions of Sections 10,
22 and 32, and subsections 18(1) and 18(2) of this by-law, no person shall park
a vehicle displaying a valid disability parking permit upon its dashboard or on
the sun visor in accordance with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act
or permit such a vehicle to remain parked for a period of time longer than four
(4) hours.
(3) The provisions respecting the display of
a valid physically disabled permit referred to in subsection 15(3) and
paragraphs 61(3)(c) and 62(3)(c) of this by‑law shall be deemed to be
satisfied in the case of a physically disabled person being received by a motor
vehicle displaying a valid disability parking permit upon its dashboard or on
the sun visor in accordance with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
PART
IX
PEDESTRIANS AND PEDESTRIAN MALLS
PEDESTRIAN TO YIELD
TO VEHICULAR TRAFFIC
90. Except
where traffic control signals are in operation or where traffic is being
controlled by a constable, no pedestrian shall cross a highway without yielding
the right‑of‑way to all vehicles upon the roadway, but nothing in
this section shall relieve the driver of a vehicle from the obligation of
taking all due care to avoid a collision.
PEDESTRIAN
PROHIBITED ON ROADWAY
91. Except
for the purpose of crossing a roadway, where there is a sidewalk that is
reasonably passable on one side or on both sides of a roadway, no person shall
walk on the roadway.
PEDESTRIAN BARRIERS
92. No person
shall go over or under a pedestrian barrier installed on a sidewalk, or at any
other location within a highway.
PLAYING ON ROADWAY
PROHIBITED
93. (1) No person shall play or take part in any
game or sport upon a roadway.
(2) Where there are sidewalks, no person on
or riding in or by means of any children's wagon, toboggan, or similar device
shall go upon a roadway, except for the purpose of crossing it, and when so
crossing, such person shall have the rights and be subject to the obligations
of a pedestrian.
PEDESTRIAN
CROSSINGS PROHIBITED ‑
Schedule
"XLV"
94. Where
authorized signs have been erected, no pedestrian shall enter on or cross the
roadway of the highways set out in column 1 of Schedule "XLV" at the
locations set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XLV."
PEDESTRIAN MALLS –
Schedule
"XLVI"
Malls Established
95. (1) The parts of the highways set out in
column 1 of Schedule "XLVI" between the limits set out in column 2 of
the said Schedule "XLVI" are established as ways for pedestrians,
hereinafter referred to as “malls,” during the times or days set out in column
3 of the said Schedule "XLVI."
Vehicles Prohibited
(2) Subject to
subsections (3) and (4), no person shall draw, propel, drive, park or stop any
vehicle on or along any mall during the times or days set out in column 3 of
Schedule "XLVI."
Utilities
(3) The City of Ottawa, a local board or any person operating and
maintaining a public utility in a highway under any statute, franchise or
agreement with the City of Ottawa, may at any time in an emergency enter upon a
mall with vehicles and equipment to such extent as may be necessary for the
purpose of carrying out its respective utility service.
Deliveries and Maintenance
(4) The Chief of Police may issue a permit
to allow a vehicle to enter upon any mall other than:
(a)
the Sparks Street Mall;
(b)
the Waller Street Mall; or
(c)
the William Street Mall
for the purposes of loading or unloading goods or for
the purposes of building maintenance at any premises abutting on the mall and
such permit shall be carried at all times by the owner or driver of the vehicle
and produced when requested by a police officer.
Exception
(5) Nothing contained in Parts I, II, and
III of this by‑law or in the Schedules referred to therein shall apply to
highways designated as pedestrian malls and set out in Schedule
"XLVI" to this by‑law or to the Sparks Street Mall, the Waller
Street Mall or the William Street Mall.
PART
X
BICYCLES
BICYCLES
96. (1) A person driving a bicycle upon a
roadway shall:
(a) where practicable, drive in the
right-hand lane then available for traffic or as close as practicable to the
right hand curb or edge of the roadway, except where the lane nearest the right‑hand
side of the roadway is a Reserved Bus Lane, and
(b) exercise due care when passing a parked,
stopped or standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
(2) A person driving a bicycle upon a
highway designated for one‑way traffic shall:
(a) where
practicable, drive in the right-hand or left-hand lane then available for
traffic or as close as practicable to the right-hand or left-hand curb or edge
of the roadway, except where the lane nearest the right‑hand side of the
roadway is a Reserved Bus Lane, and
(b) exercise due care when passing a parked,
stopped or standing vehicle or one proceeding in the same direction.
(3) No person driving a bicycle upon a
highway shall carry any package, bundle or article which prevents the rider
from keeping both hands on the handlebars or interferes with the normal
operation of the bicycle.
BICYCLES, MOTOR
ASSISTED BICYCLES AND
97. When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall ride or cause to be ridden
or use a bicycle, motor assisted bicycle or animal on any highway or part of
the highway as set out in column 1 of Schedule "XLVII" between the
limits set out in column 2 of the said Schedule "XLVII."
PART
XI
SIGNS
ERECTION OF SIGNS,
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS, ETC.
98. The
General Manager is hereby authorized and directed to erect and maintain such
signs, traffic control signals, markings, barricades, traffic control devices
and other structures, plant and equipment as are required to give effect to
this by‑law and as are required to regulate, direct, warn or guide
pedestrian and vehicular traffic for the safety and convenience of the public.
SIGNS BY CHIEF OF
POLICE
99. The Chief
of Police may erect, place and maintain such official and authorized signs as
are required to give effect to the provisions of this by‑law.
CONFLICTING PRIVATE
SIGNS
100. No
person shall place, maintain or display upon, or visible from, any highway any
sign, signal, marking or device which,
(a) conceals
a traffic control device, traffic control signal or parking meter from view,
(b) interferes
with the effectiveness of a traffic control device, traffic control signal or
parking meter, or
(c) purports to be or is an imitation of or
resembles any official or authorized sign, traffic control signal or traffic
control device.
DEFACING SIGNS AND
TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNALS
101. No person
shall move, remove, deface or in any manner interfere with any authorized or
official sign, traffic control signal, marking or other traffic control device
placed, erected or maintained under this by‑law.
FRESHLY PAINTED
LINES ON ROADWAY
102. (1) No person shall drive any vehicle over
any marking on the roadway where markers are in place to indicate that the
marking material has been freshly applied.
(2) No person shall drive any vehicle into
or over any marker placed on the roadway.
PART
XII
OFFENCES
AND FINES
OFFENCES AND FINES
Offences
103. (1) Every person who contravenes any of the
provisions of Part "A" of this by-law is guilty of an offence.
Fines
(2) Every person who is convicted of an
offence is liable to a fine as provided for in the Provincial Offences Act.
Disability Parking Permit -
Exemption
(3) Any person who is issued a Parking
Infraction Notice for alleged violation of Sections 10, 21, 22, 31 or 32 or
subsections 15(1), 18(1), 18(2), 61(2), or 62(2), or paragraphs 14(a) or 14(b)
of this by‑law because a valid disability parking permit was not
displayed and who within thirty (30) days (exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and
Public Holidays) from the date of issue of the Parking Infraction Notice
obtains a valid disability parking permit, upon presentation of the said notice
and the said permit at the office of the issuer of the said notice, shall not
be required to pay the penalty for the alleged violation of the provisions of
the said notice.
VEHICLES SUBJECT TO
REMOVAL WHEN ILLEGALLY PARKED
104. In
addition to any other penalties provided by this by‑law, upon discovery
of any vehicle parked, stopped or standing on any highway in contravention of
the provisions of this by‑law, a police officer, police cadet, municipal
by-law enforcement officer or an officer appointed for the carrying out of the
provisions of the Highway Traffic Act may cause such vehicle to be moved
or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place and all costs and charges
for the removing, care and storage thereof, if any, are a lien upon the vehicle
being released and may be enforced in the manner provided by the Repair and
Storage Liens Act.
LIABILITY OF OWNER
105. (1) The owner of a vehicle that is parked,
stopped or left standing in contravention of this by‑law is guilty of an
offence unless the owner proves to the satisfaction of the court that at the
time of the offence the vehicle was in the possession of another person without
the owner's consent, express or implied.
(2) The owner of a vehicle shall incur the
penalties provided for any contravention of this by‑law unless at the
time of the contravention the vehicle was in the possession of some person
other than the owner or his or her chauffeur without the owner's consent, and
the driver or operator of a vehicle not being the owner shall also incur the
penalties provided for any such contravention.
PART
XIII
APPLICATION AND ADMINISTRATION
ENFORCEMENT
106. (1) This by‑law shall be enforced by
the Chief of Police and the Municipal By-Law Enforcement Officers of the City
of Ottawa.
(2) The Chief of Police and the Municipal
By-Law Enforcement Officers are exempt from complying with the provisions of
this by‑law while actively engaged in its enforcement or the parts
thereof that they have been appointed to enforce when no suitable parking is
available.
APPLICATION OF BY‑LAW
107. This by‑law
applies to all highways under the jurisdiction of the City of Ottawa.
CONDITIONS OF USE
OF DISABILITY PARKING PERMIT
108. (1) A displayed disability parking permit shall
not be valid when the motor vehicle in or on which it is displayed is not
actually used for the purpose of transporting a physically disabled person.
(2) No person other than the person to whom
it was issued, or a person conveying the person to whom it was issued, or a
person conveying a disabled person for a corporation or organization that
provides transportation services primarily to disabled persons and has been
issued a permit, shall use or display a disability parking permit to enjoy the
privileges or avoid the restrictions set out in subsection (1) hereof,
subsection 15(3), paragraph 61(3)(c), paragraph 62(3)(c) or Section 89 of this
by‑law.
BY‑LAW
SUBJECT TO THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT
109. The
provisions of this by‑law are subject to the provisions of the Highway
Traffic Act.
SCHEDULES ADOPTED
110. The
Schedules referred to in this by‑law shall form part of this by‑law
and each entry in a column of such a Schedule shall be read in conjunction with
the entry or entries across therefrom, and not otherwise.
FORMER BY‑LAWS
REPEALED
111. The following by-laws are hereby repealed:
(1)
By‑law
No. 1 of 1996 of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton as amended;
(2)
By-law No. 1 of 96 of the City of Cumberland as amended;
(3)
By-law No.
1 of 1996 of the City of Gloucester as amended;
(4)
By-law No.
1-96 of the Township of Goulbourn as amended;
(5)
By-law No.
1-96 of the City of Kanata as amended;
(6)
By-law No.
1-96 of the City of Nepean as amended;
(7)
By-law No.
1 of 1996 of the Township of Osgoode as amended;
(8)
By-law
Number 1-96 of the City of Ottawa as amended;
(9)
By-law No.
1/96 of the Township of Rideau as amended;
(10)
By-law No.
96-1 of the Village of Rockcliffe Park as amended;
(11)
By-law No.
3555 of the City of Vanier as amended, and
(12)
By-law No.
1-1996 of the Township of West Carleton as amended.
PART "A"
OF BY‑LAW IN FORCE
112. Sections
1, 2 and 3 and Part "A" of this by‑law shall come into effect
on ____________ provided that any particular provision thereof shall not become
effective until the sign, if any, applicable to such particular provision has
been erected and is on display.
PART
"B"
PARKING ‑
PRIVATE PROPERTY AND PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF OTTAWA
113. In this part:
(a) "owner," when used in relation
to property, means,
(i) the registered owner of the property,
(ii) the registered owner of a condominium
unit whose consent shall extend only to the control of the unit of which he or
she is owner and any parking spaces allotted to him or her by the condominium
corporation or reserved for his or her exclusive use in the declaration or
description of the property,
(iii) the spouse of a person described in
subparagraph (i) or (ii), hereof,
(iv) where the property is included in a
description registered under The Condominium Act, the board of directors
of the condominium corporation,
(v) a person authorized in writing by the
property owner as defined in subparagraph (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), hereof to
act on the owner's behalf for requesting the enforcement of this part of the by‑law;
(b) "occupant"
means,
(i) the tenant of the property or part
thereof whose consent shall extend only to the control of the land of which he
or she is tenant and any parking spaces allotted to him or her under his or her
lease or tenancy agreement,
(ii) the spouse of a tenant,
(iii) a person, the City of Ottawa, or a local
board thereof, having an interest in the property under an easement or right of
way granted to or expropriated by the person, the City of Ottawa or local board
whose consent shall extend only to the part of the property that is subject to
the easement or right of way,
(iv) a person authorized in writing by an
occupant as defined in subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) hereof to act on the
occupant's behalf for requesting the enforcement of this part of the by‑law.
114. (1) The driver of a motor vehicle, not being
the owner, is liable to any penalty provided under this part of the by‑law,
and the owner of a motor vehicle is also liable to such a penalty unless at the
time the offence was committed the motor vehicle was in the possession of a
person other than the owner without the owner's consent.
(2) Subject to subsection (4), the driver or
owner of a motor vehicle parked or left on private property is not liable to
any penalty or to have the motor vehicle removed from such property or
impounded under this part of the by‑law except upon the written complaint
of the owner or occupant of the property given to a constable or officer
appointed for the carrying out of the provisions of this part of the by‑law.
(3) Where an owner or occupant of property
affected by this part of the by‑law has posted signs stating conditions
on which a motor vehicle may be parked or left on the property or prohibiting
the parking or leaving of a motor vehicle on the property, a motor vehicle
parked or left on the property contrary to such conditions or prohibition shall
be deemed to have been parked or left without consent.
(4) If it is alleged in a proceeding that a
provision of Part "B" of this by‑law has been contravened, the
oral or written evidence of a police officer, police cadet or municipal by-law
enforcement officer is receivable in evidence as proof, in the absence of
evidence to the contrary, of the facts stated therein in respect of,
(a) the ownership of occupancy of the
property,
(b) the absence of the consent of the owner or
occupant, and
(c) whether any person is an owner or an
occupant as defined in Section 113.
(5) A document offered as evidence under
subsection (4) hereof shall be admitted without notice under the Evidence
Act.
GENERAL REGULATIONS
115. No person shall
park or leave any motor vehicle on private
property without the consent of the owner or occupant of the property.
116. Whenever a
motor vehicle is parked or left on private property without the express
authority of the owner or occupant of such property, a police officer, police
cadet, municipal by-law enforcement officer or an officer appointed for the
carrying out of the provisions of subsection 170(15) of the Highway Traffic
Act, upon the written complaint of the owner or occupant of the property,
may cause the said motor vehicle to be moved or taken to and placed or stored
in a suitable place and all costs and charges for removing, care and storage
thereof, if any, shall be paid by the owner of the said motor vehicle and such
costs and charges shall be a lien upon the said motor vehicle which may be
enforced in the manner provided by the Repair and Storage Liens Act.
117. No person
shall park or leave any motor vehicle on property of the City of Ottawa where
parking is by sign designated as an area in which parking is prohibited.
118. No person
shall park or leave any motor vehicle on property of the City of Ottawa where
an area is by sign designated as reserved unless the area is reserved for such
person or class of persons.
119. No person
shall park or leave any motor vehicle on property of the City of Ottawa where
parking is by sign regulated by time limits for a longer period of time than
that set out on the sign.
120. No person
shall park or stop a motor vehicle or permit a motor vehicle to remain parked
or stopped on property of the City of Ottawa in an area designated by sign as a
loading zone except for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading
thereon or unloading therefrom passengers, freight or merchandise.
121. (1) A taxi zone is hereby established on the property of the City of Ottawa known as Lansdowne Park in the area that is at the west end of the Civic Centre, and designated by sign for the use of taxicabs.
(2) When
authorized signs have been erected, no person shall park or stop a motor
vehicle or permit a motor vehicle to remain parked or stopped in the taxi zone
referred to in subsection (1), other than a taxicab waiting for hire or
engagement.
OFFENCES AND FINES
Offences
122. (1) Every person who contravenes any of the
provisions of Part "B" of this by-law is guilty of an offence.
Fines
(2) Every person who is convicted of an
offence is liable to a fine as provided for in the Provincial Offences Act.
123. Whenever a
motor vehicle is parked or left in an unauthorized area on property of the City
of Ottawa and is in contravention of any provisions of Part "B"
hereof, a police officer, police cadet, municipal by-law enforcement officer or
an officer appointed for the carrying out of the provisions of subsection
170(15) of the Highway Traffic Act, upon the written complaint of an
authorized employee of the City of Ottawa may cause the said motor vehicle to
be moved or taken to and placed or stored in a suitable place and all costs and
charges for removing, care and storage thereof, if any, shall be paid by the
owner of the said motor vehicle and such costs and charges shall be a lien upon
the said motor vehicle which may be enforced in the manner provided by the Repair
and Storage Liens Act.
PART "B"
OF BY‑LAW ‑ APPLICATION
124. Part
"B" of this by‑law does not apply to motor vehicles that do not
have a number plate issued by an authority having jurisdiction to require
registration of motor vehicles displayed on it at the time the offence was committed.
PART "B"
OF BY‑LAW IN FORCE
125. Part
"B" of this by‑law shall come into force and take effect
on _______________.
PART "C"
PARKING
FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED
PARKING REQUIRED
FOR THE PHYSICALLY DISABLED
126. (1) Every owner and operator of a public
parking area shall provide reserved parking spaces for the exclusive use of
physically disabled persons, or persons conveying physically disabled persons,
to park their motor vehicles, in at least the amount prescribed by the following
table:
|
Capacity of Public Parking Area (Number of Parking Spaces) |
Minimum Number of Spaces to be Reserved for Physically
Disabled Persons |
|
1-19 |
0 |
|
20-99 |
1 |
|
100-199 |
2 |
|
200-299 |
3 |
|
300-399 |
4 |
|
400-499 |
5 |
|
500 and more |
6 |
PARKING SPACE
REQUIREMENTS
127. (1) The reserved parking spaces referred to
in Section 126 shall be:
(a)
of a width,
(i)
of three
point sixty-six (3.66 m) metres each, or
(ii)
as
specified on a plan approved by the Corporation in accordance with Section 35a
of The Planning Act, R.S.O. 1970, c.349, as amended, prior to 28 January
1981,
(b)
of a length so as to be the same length as the other parking spaces in
the same parking facility;
(c)
hard surfaced;
(d)
level,
(e)
placed so
as to be accessible to physically disabled persons whether via ramps, depressed
curbs, or other appropriate means, and so placed as to permit easy access by
such persons to or from a motor vehicle parked therein, and
(f)
identified by authorized signs as prescribed in subsection 128(1),
AUTHORIZED SIGNS
128. (1) The authorized signs shall comply with
the signs described under Section 11 of Ontario Regulation 581 made under the Highway
Traffic Act.
(2) The public parking area owner and
operator shall be jointly responsible for the procurement and installation of
the authorized signs referred to in paragraph 127(f).
(3) The public parking area owner and
operator shall be jointly responsible:
(a) for the maintenance of the authorized
signs referred to in paragraph 127(f), and
(b) for ensuring that the shape, symbols and
colours of the authorized signs referred to in paragraph 127(f) conform to the
provisions of subsection (1) hereof.
(4) Upon the request of the owner or
operator of a public parking area, the City of Ottawa shall provide the
authorized signs referred to in subsection (1) hereof, at a cost of $20.00 per
sign.
APPROPRIATE FEE
129. Physically
disabled persons shall not be required to pay an amount in excess of the normal
fee paid by other users of the same public parking facility.
PROHIBITED PARKING
PROHIBITED USE OF
PERMIT
130. (1) No person shall park or leave a motor
vehicle in a public parking area in a parking space reserved for physically
disabled persons and identified by authorized signs as prescribed by subsection
128(1) of this by‑law, unless a valid disability parking permit is
displayed on its dashboard or on the sun visor in accordance with the
provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
(2) The provisions respecting the placement of a valid disability
parking permit referred to in subsection (1) shall be deemed to be satisfied if
a valid disability parking permit is placed on the dashboard or on the sun
visor of the motor vehicle at the request of a constable, a municipal by-law
enforcement officer or a public parking area owner or operator.
(3) No public parking area owner or operator
shall authorize any person to park or leave a motor vehicle in a space reserved
for physically disabled persons and identified by authorized signs as
prescribed by subsection 128(1) of this by-law unless,
(a) the driver is a physically disabled
person, or a person conveying a physically disabled person, and
(b) a valid disability parking permit is
displayed on the dashboard or on the sunvisor of said vehicle in accordance
with the provisions of the Highway Traffic Act.
(4) No person, other than the person to whom
it was issued or a person conveying the person to whom it was issued or a
person providing transportation services for a corporation or organization to
whom it was issued to provide transportation services primarily to disabled
persons, shall use or display a disability parking permit issued to a
physically disabled person to enjoy the privileges or avoid the restrictions
set out in subsection (1).
(5) Despite the other provisions of this by‑law,
a municipal by-law enforcement officer, a constable or an officer appointed for
carrying out the provisions of Part "B" of this by‑law does not
require the written complaint of the public parking area owner or operator to
enforce the provisions of subsection (1).
(6) The appointment of municipal by-law
enforcement officers to enforce Part "B" of this by‑law shall
be deemed to be sufficient authority to enforce the provisions of subsection
(1).
(7) A displayed disability parking permit
shall not be valid when the motor vehicle in or on which it is displayed is not
actually being used for the purposes of transporting a physically disabled
person.
131. Public
parking area owners and operators shall maintain unobstructed access to each
parking space identified by authorized signs as prescribed by subsection 128(1)
of this by‑law and each space shall be kept free of snow or otherwise
maintained to the same standards as all other parking spaces in the same
parking facility.
OFFENCES AND FINES
Offences
132. (1) Any public parking area owner or
operator who contravenes any of the provisions of Sections 126, 127 or 128, or
subsection 130(3) is guilty of an offence.
(2) Any person who contravenes the
provisions of subsections 130(1) or 130(4) is guilty of an offence.
Fines
(3) Every person who is convicted of an
offence is liable to a fine as provided for in the Provincial Offences Act.
Exemption
‑ Physically Disabled Permit
(4) Any person who is issued a Parking
Infraction Notice for alleged violation of subsection 130(1) hereof because a
valid disability parking permit was not displayed and who within thirty (30)
days (exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays) from the date of
issue of the Parking Infraction Notice obtains a valid disability parking
permit, upon presentation of the said Notice and the said permit at the office
of the issuer of the said Notice, shall not be required to pay the penalty for
the alleged violation of the provisions of the said Notice.
PART "C"
OF BY‑LAW IN FORCE
133. Part
"C" of this by‑law shall come into force and take effect
on ______________.
GIVEN under the corporate seal of the
City of Ottawa this ___ day of ________________, 2003.
CITY CLERK MAYOR