95-19
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 95-19
"PROVIDING FOR THE ERECTION OF YIELD RIGHT-OF-WAY
SIGNS AT INTERSECTIONS"
WHEREAS section 314(1), Paragraph 7, of the Municipal
Act, being Chapter M.45, R.S.O. 1990, provides that the councils
of all municipalities may pass by-laws to provide for placing,
regulating and maintaining upon the pUblic highways traffic signs
for the purposes of guiding and directing traffic; and
WHEREAS section 138(2) of the Highway Traffic Act, being
Chapter H.8, R.S.O. 1990, provides that no yield right-of-way sign
shall be erected except in compliance with the regulations under
the Highway Traffic Act.
NOW THEREFORE the Municipal Council of the Corporation
of the County of Elgin enacts as follows:
1. A yield right-of-way sign shall be erected on County
Road #27 facing eastbound traffic located near Meek's Bridge over
the Kettle Creek in Lot 16, Concession Range 1 North of Union
Road, Township of Southwold, approximately 216 metres east of the
west limit of Lot 16 and approximately 250 metres north of the
north limit of County Road #20 (Union Road) .
2. The penalties provided in section 214 of the Highway
Traffic Act shall apply to offences against this by-law.
3. Each designation made by section 1 shall not become
effective until yield right-of-way signs have been erected in
accordance with the regulations of the Highway Traffic Act.
READ a first and second time this 21st day of March, 1995.
READ a third time and finally passed this 21st day of March, 1995
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D. Vane Chute
Clerk. Warden.