A bylaw to regulate speeds on local roads within the Village
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WHEREAS Council is desirous to regulating speed limits within the Village;
AND WHEREAS Section 146 of the Motor Vehicle Act authorizes a Municipality to adopt a bylaw establishing the rate of speed on municipal’s roads and lanes.
NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the Village of Anmore in open meeting assembled, ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1.     This bylaw may be cited as “Anmore Traffic Regulation Bylaw No. 265-1999”
2.     DEFINITIONS
        (a)     “highway” means every road, street, right-of-way designed or intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles;
        (b)     “lane” means a narrow highway which provides secondary vehicular access to any abutting parcel, but does not include a half-road;
        (c)     “vehicle” means a device in, on or by which a person or thing is or may be transported or drawn on a highway, except a device designed to be
                  moved by human power or used exclusively on stationary rails or tracks.
3.     SPEED LIMITS
        (a)     No person shall operate a vehicle upon a lane within the Village at a greater rate of speed than 20 kilometres per hour.
        (b)     No person shall operate a vehicle upon a highway within the Village at a greater rate of speed than 50 kilometres per hour.
        (c)     Where a sign has been erected or placed on a highway limiting the rate of speed of vehicles driven or operated on that highway or portion
                 of highway, a person shall not drive or operate a vehicle on that portion of the highway at a greater rate of speed than that indicated on the sign.
4.     DESIGNATION OF ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
        Members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are designed to enforce this bylaw.
5.     OFFENCE, PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT
        Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this bylaw commits an offence punishable upon summary conviction and is liable to a fine of not
        less than $20.00 and not more than $2,000.00, or to imprisonment for not more than six months, or to both. Each day that an offence continues shall
        constitute a separate offence.

RECONSIDERED AND FINALLY PASSED AND ADOPTED this 8th day of November, 1999 A.D.