R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 599: HIGHWAY CLOSINGS

Highway Traffic Act
Code de la route

R.R.O. 1990, REGULATION 599

HIGHWAY CLOSINGS

Historical version for the period November 16, 1992 to April 15, 2008.

Last amendment: O. Reg. 643/92.

This Regulation is made in English only.

1. For the purposes of section 134 of the Act, a police officer may close a highway or any part thereof by,

(a) posting or causing to be posted a Do Not Enter sign as prescribed in subsection 2 (1) in such a manner that the sign faces approaching traffic and that the bottom edge of the sign is not less than one metre above the roadway; and

(b) placing or causing to be placed not fewer than three traffic control devices of the type prescribed in clause 2 (2) (a) or two traffic control devices of the type prescribed in clauses 2 (2) (b) and (c) in such a manner that the control devices stand in a line at right angles to approaching traffic with not more than one metre separating each pair of control devices. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 599, s. 1; O. Reg. 643/92, s. 1.

2. (1) A Do Not Enter sign shall,

(a) be square or rectangular in shape and shall be not less than sixty centimetres in width and sixty centimetres in height; and

(b) bear the markings and have the minimum dimensions as prescribed and illustrated in Figure 1.

(2) A traffic control device may,

(a) be conical in shape and not less than forty-five centimetres in height and bear the markings and have the minimum dimensions as prescribed and illustrated in Figure 2;

(b) be rectangular in shape, not less than 100 centimetres in height and not less than twenty centimetres in width and bear the markings and have the minimum dimensions as prescribed and illustrated in Figure 3; or

(c) be a barricade, not less than 100 centimetres in width and ninety centimetres in height and bear the markings and have the minimum dimensions as prescribed and illustrated in Figure 4.

R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 599, s. 2.