O. Reg. 63/06: Signs, Filed March 6, 2006 under Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8
ontario regulation 63/06
made under the
highway traffic act
Made: March 1, 2006
Filed: March 6, 2006
Published on e-Laws: March 8, 2006
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: March 25, 2006
Amending Reg. 615 of R.R.O. 1990
(Signs)
1. Section 7 of Regulation 615 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is amended by adding “or the nearest rail at a railway crossing” at the end.
2. Section 8 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:
8. A stop sign shall be erected so that the left edge of the sign shall be not more than 4 metres from the edge of the roadway.
3. Subsection 11 (3) of the Regulation is amended by adding “or below” after “above”.
4. (1) The Figure to subsection 26 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:
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(2) The Figure to subsection 26 (2) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:
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5. Section 42 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:
42. (1) A part of a highway that has been designated as a construction zone shall be marked at the commencement and at the end of the construction zone with construction zone signs erected on the right side of the highway, facing approaching traffic and not more than 4.5 metres from the roadway, with the bottom edge of the sign not less than 1.5 metres or more than 2.5 metres above the level of the roadway.
(2) The commencement of a designated construction zone shall be indicated by a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the following Figure:
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(3) Despite subsection (2), in an area designated in the Schedule to the French Language Services Act, the commencement of a designated construction zone shall be indicated by a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the Figure to subsection (2) and a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the following Figure:
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(4) The end of a designated construction zone shall be indicated by a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the following Figure:
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(5) Despite subsection (4), in an area designated in the Schedule to the French Language Services Act, the end of a designated construction zone shall be indicated by a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the Figure to subsection (4) and a sign that has the dimensions and bears the markings as illustrated in the following Figure:
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42.1 (1) A traffic control stop or slow sign used by a traffic control person or a firefighter in accordance with section 146.1 of the Act shall,
(a) be octagonal in shape;
(b) measure 450 millimetres between opposite sides;
(c) be mounted on a pole that is 1.2 metres long;
(d) be made of material with at least the rigidity of plywood that is six millimetres thick; and
(e) be maintained in a clean and legible condition.
(2) One side of a traffic control stop or slow sign shall be high-intensity retro-reflective grade red in colour with the word “stop” in the centre of the sign written in legible high-intensity retro-reflective grade white upper case letters 150 millimetres high.
(3) The other side of a traffic control stop or slow sign shall be high retro-reflective micro-prismatic fluorescent chartreuse in colour with a black diamond-shaped border that is at least 317 millimetres by 317 millimetres and the word “slow” in the centre of the sign written in legible black upper case letters 120 millimetres high.
6. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.
(2) Section 5 comes into force on the later of March 31, 2006 and the day this Regulation is filed.