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MEMORANDUM

TO: City Administrator November 4, 1986

FROM: City Engineer

SUBJECT: Amendment to Traffic Bylaw - Public Works Committee
November 4, 1986

Recommendation:

That Division 3 of Bylaw 1137 be retitied "Control! of
Traffic and Signs" and the following provisions added:

306. No person shall erect or matntain a sign or
advertisement.on or over a highway other than an
arterial highway by any means, Including placement,
affixation or maintenance of a sign on top of a
vehicle parked or stopped on a highway.

Any sign erected or maintained contrary to Section
306 of this Bylaw may be altered, repainted, torn
down or removed without compensation to any person
for any toss or damage which results.

Background and Comments:

When this [tem previously went to.Counclti it was referred
back to the Public Works Committee for further study.
Questions raised in Council Included how the Bylaw would be
enforced and why the existing provision of the Motor Vehicle

Act could not be used.

The Motor Vehicle Act prohibits the parking of a vehicle
on a highway for the purpose of displaying advertising.
Unfortunately, the enforcement of this provision of the Motor
Vehicle Act requires the laying of a charge and is apparently
also beyond the jurlsdiction of the Bylaw Officer. The
recommendation above [fs wording which has been provided by our
Solicitor which wil! allow the enforcement of this regulation

without the necessity to lay a charge.

The wording of the recommendation covers not only signs
which are mounted on top of motor vehicles but also any other
type of mounting of advertising signs on or over a highway.

The provistons are very broad and this Is one of the things
which Council! was concerned about. As with many of our other

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