02-02
COUNTY OF ELGIN
By-Law No. 02-02
BEING A BY-LAW TO AUTHORIZE THE TEMPORARY CLOSURE
OF A PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD # 42 (LAKEsHORE LINE) IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF BAYHAM
WHEREAS Section 102 of the Municipal Act, RSO 1990, Chapter M.45, authorizes
a council of a municipality to pass such by-laws and make regulations for the health,
safety, morality, and welfare of the inhabitants of the municipality; and
WHEREAS Section 207.43 of the Municipal Act, RSO 1990, Chapter M.45, also
authorizes the council of a municipality to temporarily close a highway, or portion thereof,
for, among other things, construction, repairs, and/or improvement thereto; and
WHEREAS the Corporation of the County of Elgin maintains jurisdictional control
and responsibility for that highway known as County Road # 42, also known as Lakeshore
Line. in the Municipality of Bayham; and
WHEREAS erosion from Lake Erie has moved to within seventeen metres of a
portion of the said County Road # 42, also known as Lakeshore Line, between Godby
Road and Elgin County Road # 55, in the said Municipality of Bayham; and
WHEREAS Council for the Corporation of the County of Elgin has determined that
the said erosion constitutes and poses a potential risk to the health, safety, and welfare of
the users of County Road # 42 in that location.
the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the County of Elgin
NOW THEREFORE
enacts as follows:
1. THAT County Road # 42, also known as Lakeshore Line, 634 metres from the west
limit of Elgin County Road #55 for 715 metres to the east property limit of Godby Road, in
the Municipality of Bayham, be hereby closed temporarily to vehicular and pedestrian
traffic to permit full and proper investigation of the current risk to the health, safety, and
welfare of the public users of such highway and identification and assessment of
measures to address such risk, including but not necessarily limited to reconstruction
and/or repair or permanent stopping up and closure of the said highway.
2. THAT all necessary barricades, including warning devices, to be erected and
maintained at each end of the portion of the said highway to be closed temporarily and,
furthermore, that an alternative route, identified by appropriate detour signs, be provided
for vehicular and pedestrian users of that portion of County Road # 42 to be temporarily
closed.
14. 2002
this By-Law becomes effective February
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