O. Reg. 245/07: Red Light Camera System Evidence

 

ontario regulation 245/07

made under the

highway traffic act

Made: June 6, 2007
Filed: June 8, 2007
Published on e-Laws: June 11, 2007
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: June 23, 2007

Amending O. Reg. 277/99

(Red Light Camera System Evidence)

1. Ontario Regulation 277/99 is amended by adding the following heading above section 1:

Definitions and Application

2. (1) Subsection 2 (1) of the Regulation is amended by striking out the portion before clause (a) and substituting the following:

(1) For the purposes of Part XIV.2 of the Act, a red light camera system is the combination of one or more cameras and other equipment of a type described in subsection (1.1) that is installed at an intersection controlled by a traffic control signal such that,

. .  . . .

(2) Section 2 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subsection:

(1.1) A red light camera system may be either of the following systems:

1. Gatsometer RLC, model number 36mST-MC-GL4-ONT, referred to in this Regulation as Gatsometer.

2. TraffiStar SR 520-ONT, referred to in this Regulation as TraffiStar .

3. The Regulation is amended by adding the following heading above section 3:

Information on Photographs

4. Subsection 3 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “section 3.1” at the end and substituting “section 3.1 or 3.2 and in section 3.3”.

5. (1) Subsection 3.1 (1) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “a red light camera system” in the portion before paragraph 1 and substituting “a Gatsometer red light camera system”.

(2) Subsection 3.1 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “a red light camera system” in the portion before paragraph 1 and substituting “a Gatsometer red light camera system”.

(3) Subparagraph 3 v of subsection 3.1 (2) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “but if the speed is a two digit number, the seventh character may be “=”” at the end.

(4) Subsection 3.1 (6) of the Regulation is revoked.

6. The Regulation is amended by adding the following sections:

3.2 (1) On the first photograph of a series of photographs taken by a TraffiStar red light camera system, the information described in subsection 3 (1) may appear as a box containing two rows and eight columns of characters interpreted as follows:

1. In the top row, reading from left to right, are the column headings, “Time”, “Date”, “Lane”, “Amber”, “Code”, “Red”, “Photo” and “Speed”.

2. In the bottom row,

i. in the first column is the time that the photograph was taken, in hours, minutes and seconds expressed in 24-hour clock format,

ii. in the second column is the date that the photograph was taken, in numbers, with the first two being the day of the month, the second two being the month and the last four being the year,

iii. in the third column is a lane identifier,

iv. in the fourth column is the number of seconds, to the tenth of a second, for which the indication was showing amber before the photograph was taken,

v. in the fifth column is the code identifying the municipality in which the red light camera system is located,

vi. in the sixth column is the number of seconds, to the tenth of a second, for which the indication was showing red before the photograph was taken,

vii. in the seventh column,

A. the first character is “A”, which means that this is the first in the series of photographs taken, and

B. the next three characters are the frame set numbers,

viii. in the eighth column is the speed at which the vehicle was travelling when the first photograph in the series of photographs was taken, in kilometres per hour.

(2) On the second photograph of a series of photographs taken by a TraffiStar red light camera system, the information described in subsection 3 (1) may appear as a box containing two rows and eight columns of characters interpreted as follows:

1. In the top row, reading from left to right, are the column headings, “Time”, “Date”, “Lane”, “Amber”, “Code”, “Red”, “Photo” and “Speed”.

2. In the bottom row,

i. in the first column is the time that the photograph was taken, in hours, minutes and seconds expressed in 24-hour clock format,

ii. in the second column is the date that the photograph was taken, in numbers, with the first two being the day of the month, the second two being the month and the last four being the year,

iii. in the third column is a lane identifier,

iv. in the fourth column is the number of seconds, to the tenth of a second, for which the indication was showing amber before the photograph was taken,

v. in the fifth column is the code identifying the municipality in which the red light camera system is located,

vi. in the sixth column is the number of seconds, to the tenth of a second, for which the indication was showing red before the photograph was taken,

vii. in the seventh column,

A. the first character is “B”, which means that this is the second in the series of photographs taken, and

B. the next three characters are the frame set numbers.

viii. in the eighth column is the speed at which the vehicle was travelling when the second photograph in the series of photographs was taken, in kilometres per hour. 

3.3 The key for the code identifying the municipality in which a red light camera system is located, which appears on the photographs pursuant to subparagraph 2 iv of subsection 3.1 (1), subparagraph 2 iv of subsection 3.1 (2), subparagraph 2 v of subsection 3.2 (1) and subparagraph 2 v of subsection 3.2 (2), is as follows:

table 1
Regional Municipality of Halton

 

2000 to 2099

Table 2
City of Hamilton

 

0067	0099	0162
0175	0221	0252
0288	0329	1200 to 1399

Table 3
City of Ottawa

 

5000 to 6900

table 4
Regional Municipality of Peel

 

1000 to 1169

table 5
City of Toronto

 

0033	0039	0049
0105	0124	0128
0131	0143	0188
0294	0321	0325
0407	0409	0420
0431	0434	0437
0452	0454	0463
0471	0488	0534
0565	0589	0619
0675	0698	0702
0786	0869	1170
1191	1407	1541
1570	1608	2500 to 2999

table 6
Regional Municipality of Waterloo

 

0104

0742

0752

0881

1700 to 1799

7. The Regulation is amended by adding the following heading above section 4:

Service of Offence Notice

8. The Regulation is amended by adding the following heading above section 5:

Certificate Striking out a Conviction

9. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.