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MOTOR VEHICLE ACT REGULATIONS — Continued
B.C. Reg. 26/58
Division 19 — Miscellaneous
19.01 (1) For the purposes of this Division, "minister" means the Minister of Transportation or the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, as applicable.
(2) Sections 19.02 to 19.06, inclusive, shall apply only in respect of highways in unorganized territory or on an arterial highway (within the meaning of section 27 of the Highway Act) in a municipality.
(3) Sections 19.02 to 19.06, inclusive, do not apply to a commercial vehicle engaged in the construction of, and operating within the limits of, a highway construction project, as established or as posted by the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, but this exemption does not apply to a paving project.
(4) Sections 19.02 and 19.04 do not apply to
(a) an implement of husbandry temporarily operated on a highway, or
(b) a commercial vehicle, as defined in the Commercial Transport Act.
(5) For the purposes of this Division, "axle" means a structure in the same, or approximately the same, transverse plane supported by wheels and on, or with, which such wheels revolve. Any 2 axles of a vehicle, the centres of which are less than 1 m apart, shall be deemed to be one axle.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 343/77; 135/2003, s. 5.]
19.02 (1) Sizes and dimensions as quoted in Division 7 of B.C. Reg. 30/78, made under the Commercial Transport Act, as amended from time to time, are hereby adopted as subsection (1) and made a regulation under this Act.
(2) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the regulations or of a permit issued pursuant to these regulations, the maximum height, length or width of a vehicle or load allowable on a highway or portion of a highway that is expressly limited as to maximum height, length or width of a vehicle or load by a sign erected by the Minister of Transportation and Highways shall be that set out on the sign.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Division, no person shall, without a permit issued pursuant to section 19.06, drive or operate on a highway
(a) a combination of vehicles consisting of more than 2 vehicles,
(b) a vehicle or combination of vehicles so loaded that the load extends more than 1 m beyond the front wheels thereof, or, if equipped with a front bumper, more than 1 m beyond the front bumper,
(c) a vehicle or combination of vehicles any part of which, or the load upon which, extends more than 4.5 m behind the centre of the last axle of the vehicle or combination of vehicles,
(d) a vehicle or combination of vehicles the load of which extends more than 185 cm beyond the back of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, or
(e) a vehicle so loaded that any part of the load extends beyond the sides of the vehicle.
(3.1) Subsection (3) (a) does not apply in respect of a combination of vehicles consisting of a motor vehicle, a towing dolly and a licensed motor vehicle one axle of which is being carried by the towing dolly.
(4) Unless expressly permitted by the terms of a permit, no person shall drive or operate an oversize vehicle or load on a Sunday or holiday.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 343/77; 256/84, s. 10; 42/90, s. 1.]
19.03 (1) No person shall drive or operate on a highway
(a) a vehicle equipped with solid tires, the thickness of which between the rim of the wheel and the surface of the highway is less than 32 mm, or
(b) a vehicle having wheels, tires or tracks constructed or equipped with projecting spikes, cleats, ribs, clamps, flanges, lugs or other attachments or projections, which extend beyond the tread or traction surface of the wheel, tread or track, but such a vehicle may be driven or operated on a highway not having a cement-concrete, asphaltic-concrete, bituminous treated or other stabilized or wooden surface.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the use of tire chains of reasonable proportions on a motor vehicle when required for safety.
(3) Subsection (1) (b) does not prohibit the use, at any time between October 1 in one year and April 30 in the next year, of studs that do not protrude more than 3.5 mm from the tread or traction surface of a tire, if
(a) there are not more than a total of 130 studs in the tire if it is a tire for a motor vehicle having a gross vehicle weight of not more than 4 600 kg, or 175 studs in the tire if it is a tire for a motor vehicle having a greater gross vehicle weight, and
(b) no studs are used in a tire on the front wheel of a motor vehicle unless each rear wheel has at least one studded tire, but this paragraph does not apply to a truck with a licensed gross vehicle weight of 9 100 kg or more and which is equipped with a device to allow the installation of a snowplough.
(4) The Minister of Transportation and Highways may, whenever in his opinion the use of tire studs is causing undue wear to a highway or bridge or is hazardous to the safety of those using the highways, by written order published in the Gazette, suspend the application of this subsection with respect to any highway or part thereof.
(5), (6), (6A) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 415/81, s. 1.]
(7) No person shall drive or operate on a highway a solid-rubber-tired vehicle at a greater rate of speed than 20 km/h.
(8) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 206/83.]
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 161/76, s. 2; 343/77; 414/77, s. 2; 415/81, s. 1; 206/83.]
19.04 Sections 7.22, 7.23 and 7.24 of B.C. Reg. 30/78, made under the Commercial Transport Act, as amended from time to time, are hereby adopted as section 19.04 and made a regulation under this Act.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Reg. 42/90, s. 2.]
19.05 (1) The driver of a vehicle on a highway, when so required by a peace officer, shall
(a) stop the vehicle at the time and place specified by such peace officer for the purpose of weighing the whole or part thereof by means of stationary or portable scales, measuring the dimensions of the vehicle and load, measuring and inspecting the tires thereon, inspecting the load carried, or for any other purpose under this Act or regulations,
(b) drive the vehicle to the nearest public stationary or portable scales for the purpose of weighing the vehicle and load, and
(c) rearrange the load upon the vehicle or remove the whole or part of the load from the vehicle in order to comply with the provisions of the Act, regulations or permit before continuing to drive or operate the vehicle.
(2) The driver of a vehicle on a highway, when directed by a traffic sign on the highway to drive over scales, shall drive the vehicle to the scales for the purpose of weighing the whole or part thereof by means of stationary or portable scales, measuring the dimensions of the vehicle and load, measuring and inspecting the tires thereon, inspecting the load carried, or for any purpose under this Act or regulations.
(3) The gross weight of any tandem axles and the gross weight of any group of axles shall be the sum of the gross axle weights of all the axles comprising the tandem axles or the group of axles, as the case may be.
(4) The gross weight of any vehicle or combination of vehicles shall be the sum of the individual gross axle weights of all the axles of the vehicle or combination of vehicles.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 413/97, App. 1, s. 11; 135/2003, s. 6.]
19.06 (1) The minister, or any person authorized by him, may, by a general authority or by the issuance of a written permit, authorize the driving or operation on a highway of a vehicle that
(a) does not conform to section 19.04, and the fee for the permit shall be in accordance with the Commercial Transport Fees Regulation of the Commercial Transport Act, or
(b) does not conform to section 19.02, and the fee for the permit shall be in accordance with the Commercial Transport Fees Regulation of the Commercial Transport Act.
(2) Permits issued pursuant to subsection (1) may be issued for a period not exceeding 30 days.
(3) A driver, operator or owner of a vehicle or other person who violates any of the conditions contained in a permit issued pursuant to these regulations is guilty of an offence.
(4) The power of the minister, or any person authorized by him to issue permits pursuant to these regulations, shall include the power to amend, vary or rescind such permits.
(5) As a prerequisite to the issuance of a permit under this section, the minister may require the applicant therefor to deposit with him a sum of money in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of the minister, to pay the cost of repairing any damage that may be done to the highway by reason of the driving or operation of the vehicle thereon.
(6) Where the term of the permit pursuant to subsection (1) extends beyond a single journey, the applicant shall deposit on account of the fee prescribed in the Commercial Transport Fees Regulation of the Commercial Transport Act a sum of money equal to the estimated charges for the permit.
(7) The fee to be charged for a single trip overload permit in the Commercial Transport Fees Regulation of the Commercial Transport Act shall be based on the total number of kilometres of operation of the overloaded vehicle during the life of the permit.
(8) No person shall use a permit for driving or operating more than one vehicle.
(9) Where the term of an overload permit extends beyond a single journey, a monthly fee shall be charged according to the Commercial Transport Fees Regulation.
(10) A permit issued under this Act and the regulations made thereunder shall be carried in the vehicle at all times when operated upon a highway.
(11) A permit is not transferable from one vehicle to another.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Reg. 340/94.]
19.07 (1) Except as authorized by a permit issued by the Minister of Transportation and Highways, and except for crossing a highway at an intersection, use of any highway named in Schedule 1 by the following is prohibited at all times:
(a) vehicles drawn by animals;
(b) livestock, as defined in the Livestock Act;
(c) farm implements and farm machinery, whether self-propelled or towed;
(d) pedestrians, unless attending a disabled vehicle;
(e) vehicles incapable of maintaining a minimum speed of 60 km/h on level road, except construction or maintenance equipment owned or hired by the Ministry of Transportation and Highways while working on or travelling to or from a worksite located on a highway named in Schedule 1.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to pedestrians and to operators of pedal cycles and limited speed motorcycles using footpaths constructed adjacent to the travel portion of the highway or the shoulder on the travel portion of the highway where the minister causes signs to be erected designating the footpath or shoulder for such permitted use.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 343/77; 171/85, s. 1; 112/86, s. 1; 133/89, s. 2.]
(1) Trans-Canada Highway #1 – from the ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay to the north approach to the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge; from its intersection with Rupert Street to its junction with Route #3 in Hope; from its junction with the Coquihalla Highway (Afton Interchange) on the west approach to Kamloops to its junction with the Yellowhead Highway on the east approach to Kamloops.
(2) Hope-Princeton Highway #3 – from its junction with the Trans-Canada Highway in Hope to its junction with the Coquihalla Highway, 7.7 km east.
(3) Coquihalla Highway #5 – from its junction with the Hope-Princeton Highway, 7.7 km east of Hope to its junction with the Trans-Canada Highway (Afton Interchange) on the west approach to Kamloops.
(4) Annacis Highway #91 – from its interchange with the Vancouver-Blaine Highway to the south approach to the Annacis Bridge; from the north approach to the Annacis Bridge to the south approach to the East Channel Bridge; from the north approach to the East Channel Bridge to the Richmond Connector.
(5) Annacis Highway #91A – from the Richmond Connector to the south approach to the Queensborough Bridge.
(6) Vancouver-Blaine Highway #99 – from 1st Avenue in Surrey to the south approach of the Oak Street Bridge.
(7) Okanagan Connector Highway #97C – from its junction with Highway 5A to its junction with Okanagan Highway 97, a total distance of approximately 84 kilometres.
(8) The Inland Island Highway 19 from Craig’s Crossing south of Parksville to its intersection with Highway 19A at Willow/Tamarac in Campbell River.
(9) Highway 19 from its North Cedar Road intersection with Trans-Canada Highway 1, south of Nanaimo, to its intersection with Highway 19A north of Nanaimo.
[en. B.C. Reg. 112/86, s. 2; am. B.C. Regs. 429/87; 468/90; 268/96, s. 1; 294/96; 270/2001, s. (a).]
19.08 Except as authorized by a permit issued by the Minister of Transportation and Highways, no person, being the owner of or having control of any livestock as defined in the Livestock Act, shall permit the livestock to be upon any highway named in Schedule 2, except for crossing the highway from one place on a farm to another place on the same farm; but nothing in this section applies to an animal being ridden upon, led or driven in harness upon a highway.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Reg. 171/85, s. 2.]
Trans-Canada Highway 1––
(a) from Victoria to Nanaimo;
(b) from Horseshoe Bay to Taylor Way in West Vancouver;
(c) from its junction with Highway 1 at Bridal Falls to the west boundary of Yoho National Park, excluding sections through Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks.
Crowsnest Highway 3––from its junction with Trans-Canada Highway 1 at Hope via Richter Pass, Castlegar, Salmo and Creston to the Provincial Boundary at Crowsnest.
Crowsnest Highway 3A––
(a) from its junction with Highway 3 at Keremeos to its junction with Okanagan Highway 97 at Kaleden Junction;
(b) from its junction with Highway 3 at Castlegar via Nelson, Balfour and Kootenay Bay to its junction with Highway 3 at Creston.
Crowsnest Highway 3B––from its junction with Highway 3 at Nancy Greene Lake via Rossland, Trail, Montrose and Fruitvale to its junction with Highway 3 at Meadows.
Okanagan Highway 97––from the International Boundary at Oroville to its junction with Trans-Canada Highway 1 at Monte Creek.
Okanagan Highway 97A––from its junction with Okanagan Highway 97 at Swan Lake to Trans-Canada Highway 1 at Sicamous.
Okanagan Highway 97B––from its junction with Okanagan Highway 97A at Baird Pit to Trans-Canada Highway 1 at Larch Hill, near Salmon Arm.
John Hart-Peace River Highway––from Prince George to Dawson Creek.
Paterson-Rossland-Castlegar Highway 22––from the International Boundary at Paterson via Rossland, Warfield and Trail to its junction with Highway 3 at Castlegar.
Elko-Roosville Highway 93––from its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3 at Elko to the International Boundary at Roosville.
Yahk-Kingsgate Highway 95––from the International Boundary at Kingsgate to its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3 at Yahk.
Kootenay-Columbia Highways 95 and 93––
(a) from its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3 south of Fort Steele via Fort Steele and Wasa to Radium Hot Springs;
(b) Highway 95 from Radium Hot Springs to its junction with Trans-Canada Highway 1 at Golden;
(c) Highway 93 from Radium Hot Springs to the boundary of Kootenay National Park.
Cranbrook Junction-Wasa Highway 95A––from its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3 at Cranbrook via Kimberley to its junction with Kootenay-Columbia Highways 95 and 93 at Wasa Junction.
Nelson-Nelway Highway 6––from the International Boundary at Nelway via Salmo to its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3A in Nelson.
Christina Lake-Laurier Highway 395––from the International Boundary at Laurier to its junction with Southern Trans-Canada Highway 3.
Cariboo Highway 97––from Cache Creek to Prince George.
Princeton-Kamloops Highway 5A––from Princeton to Kamloops.
Yellowhead Highway 16––from the south boundary of the Village of Masset to the B.C. Ferries ramp at Skidegate, on the Queen Charlotte Islands; and from Prince Rupert to the Alberta Boundary.
Yellowhead South Highway 5––from Kamloops to Tête Jaune Cache.
Hudson Hope Highway 29––from Chetwynd to Hudson Hope to Alaska Highway.
Dawson Creek-Alberta Boundary Highway 2––from Dawson Creek to the British Columbia-Alberta Provincial Boundary.
Dawson Creek-Spirit River (Alberta) Highway 49––from Dawson Creek to the British Columbia-Alberta Boundary.
Alaska Highway 97––from Dawson Creek to Kilometre 134.5 on Alaska Highway.
Elk Valley Highway––from the north boundary of the Village of Elkford to the junction with the Southern Trans-Provincial Highway.
Highland Valley Road––from its junction with Ashcroft-Cache Creek Highway at Ashcroft to the junction with Mamit Lake Road and Meadow Creek Road at Logan Lake.
Meadow Creek Road––from its junction with Mamit Lake Road and Highland Valley Road to the junction with Lac Le Jeune Road at Lac Le Jeune.
Lac Le Jeune Road––from its junction with Meadow Creek Road to the Junction with the Trans-Canada Highway.
Highway 19 from Duke Point Ferry Terminal to its intersection with Trans-Canada Highway 1, south of Nanaimo.
Highway 29 (Don Phillips Way)––from its junction with highway 97 south of Chetwynd, being unsurveyed Crown land, Peace River District; thence in a southerly direction to the east boundary of District Lot 2704, Peace River District, a distance of 24.85 km, more or less.
Creston-Rykerts Highway No. 21––from the Canada-United States border at Rykerts to the junction with Route 3 near Creston.
Nazko Road from its junction with Blackwater Road (km. 9.51, within D.L. 4499) to Nazko River Bridge (within D.L. 3383), a total distance of 86.26 kilometres.
Okanagan Connector Highway 97C – from its junction with Coquihalla Highway 5 to its junction with Okanagan Highway 97, a total distance of approximately 108 kilometres.
Commencing at the intersection of Highway No. 24 and Highway No. 97, thence in an easterly direction for approximately 97.3 kilometres to the intersection of Highway No. 24 and Highway No. 5.
[en. B.C. Reg. 68/71, s. 5; am. B.C. Regs. 385/73; 143/74; 338/76; 343/77; 414/77, s. 4; 512/80; 320/84; 27/85; 337/85; 113/86; 308/87; 171/89; 252/89; 468/90; 13/94; 268/96, s. 2; 270/2001, s. (b).]
19.09 No person shall drive or operate on a highway a motor vehicle that is towing a towing dolly unless
(a) the wheels of the towing dolly are restrained so that they remain at all times parallel to the centreline of the towing dolly, and
(b) where the towing dolly
(i) has a turntable for carrying the axle of the motor vehicle being towed, or
(ii) is carrying the rear axle of the motor vehicle being towed,
the steering of the motor vehicle being towed is locked.
[en. B.C. Reg. 256/84, s. 11.]
19.10 No person shall drive or operate on a highway a motor vehicle that is towing a towing dolly if
(a) there is fitted to the towing dolly
(i) an axle or axle assembly, or
(ii) a wheel, tire, suspension, or other hardware of an axle assembly that is designed and manufactured exclusively for use on a mobile home, or
(b) the aggregate of the net weight of the towing dolly and the gross weight of the motor vehicle, one axle of which is being carried by the towing dolly, exceeds 2 800 kg.
[en. B.C. Reg. 256/84, s. 11.]
19.11 (1) Unless operating under the provisions of an overload permit issued under the Commercial Transport Act, no person shall operate or cause to be operated a vehicle that is loaded in such a manner that the gross weight carried by any axle exceeds the gross weight rating for that axle as specified by the vehicle manufacturer, or the gross vehicle weight exceeds the gross vehicle weight rating for that vehicle as specified by the vehicle manufacturer.
(2) The weight distribution of a bus shall be such that not less than 25 per cent of the gross vehicle weight is on the front axle when measured on level ground.
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a vehicle
(a) manufactured before January 1, 2001, and
(b) having a gross vehicle weight rating of 5 500 kg or less.
(4) Subsection (1) does not apply to a tow car with a gross vehicle weight rating of 5 500 kg or less towing a vehicle weighing not more than 50% of the tow car's gross vehicle weight rating.
(5) Subsection (4) and this subsection are repealed on January 1, 2007.
[en. B.C. Reg. 448/87, s. 3; am. B.C. Regs. 132/89; 29/97, s. 1; 40/2000, s. 1.]
19.12 No person shall dispense, or cause to be dispensed, any fuel into any fuel tank, container or pressure vessel that is in or on, or that forms part of the equipment of, a bus or taxi, whether for motive propulsion of the vehicle or for transport of the fuel, while any person other than the driver is inside the vehicle.
[en. B.C. Reg. 43/90.]
19.13 An extraprovincial society registered under the Society Act is prescribed for the purposes of section 4 (2) (c) of the Act.
[en. B.C. Reg. 23/94.]
19.14 The following non-individual vehicle owners are prescribed for the purposes of section 4 (2) (c) of the Act:
(a) a bank, as defined in paragraph (a) of the definition of "financial institution" in section 2 of the Bank Act (Canada);
(b) a body corporate as defined in paragraph (b) of the definition of "financial institution" in section 2 of the Bank Act (Canada);
(c) a cooperative credit society as defined in paragraph (c) of the definition of "financial institution" in section 2 of the Bank Act (Canada).
[en. B.C. Reg. 205/96.]
Division 20 — Motor Vehicle Dealers
Part 1 — Motor Vehicle Dealer Licences
20.01 to 20.30 Spent.
Part 2 — Demonstration Licences
20.31 If the registrar cancels all the dealer's licences held by a dealer, that dealer shall forthwith surrender any demonstration licences and corresponding number plates issued to him to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia.
[en. B.C. Reg. 752/75; am. B.C. Reg. 317/96, s. 1.]
20.32 If a dealer fails to surrender his demonstration licences and corresponding number plates to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia as required by section 40 (1) of the Act or section 20.31 of the regulations, the corporation may, in writing, authorize a peace officer or other person to recover possession of the demonstration licence and corresponding number plates.
[en. B.C. Reg. 752/75; am. B.C. Reg. 317/96, s. 1.]
Division 21 — Short Term Licences
21.01 Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 205/72, s. 12.]
21.02 For the purposes of section 60 (2) of the Act, any vehicle, except where licensed under section 38, 41, 42 or 44 of the Act, may be issued a license with a term of less than 12 months but not less than 3 months.
[en. B.C. Reg. 416/87; am. B.C. Reg. 4/92.]
Division 22 — Antique Motor Vehicles
22.01 "Antique motor vehicle" means a motor vehicle 30 years of age or older maintained as nearly as possible with original component parts, and owned as a collector's item and operated solely for use in exhibition or club activities, parades and other like functions, and for the purpose of obtaining vehicle repairs and for presentation of the vehicle at an approved motor vehicle inspection station, but not for use for general transportation.
[en. B.C. Reg. 55/66.]
22.02 (1) The owner of an antique motor vehicle may make application to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for registration and licence on a form established by the corporation.
(2) The application shall be accompanied by evidence satisfactory to the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia that shows the make, year of manufacture and vehicle identification number of the vehicle for which the application is made.
[en. B.C. Reg. 55/66; am. B.C. Regs. 317/91, s. 4; 317/96, s. 1; 195/2000, s. (b).]
22.03 (1) Upon receipt of the application and the evidence required by section 22.02 (2), and upon being satisfied of the truth of the facts stated in the application, and that the fee prescribed in the Motor Vehicle Fees Regulation has been paid, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia shall cause to be issued to the owner
(a) a numbered licence in the prescribed form, valid for as long as the vehicle is in existence and continues to be operated as an antique motor vehicle, which licence shall set out the conditions under which the issuance has been made, and
(b) a distinctive number plate or plates, which shall be mounted on the vehicle in accordance with the regulations.
(2) Notwithstanding sections 3.05 and 3.09, a licence issued under subsection (1) may be transferred to a new owner of the vehicle, in accordance with section 17 of the Act, provided the new owner satisfies the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia that the vehicle will continue to be used solely as an antique motor vehicle.
(3) It is unlawful to display number plates issued under subsection (1) on a vehicle other than the vehicle to which the plates were assigned.
[en. B.C. Reg. 55/66; am. B.C. Regs. 518/81, s. 6; 419/90, s. 6; 317/91, s. 5; 317/96, s. 1.]
22.04 (1) An antique motor vehicle licensed under section 22.03 may be operated
(a) on a highway in accordance with the conditions set out in the licence,
(b) only as a collector's item for transportation to and from and for use in exhibitions, club activities and other like functions,
(c) for the purpose of obtaining vehicle repairs and servicing, and
(d) for presentation of the vehicle at an approved motor vehicle inspection station.
(1.1) An antique motor vehicle shall not be operated for the purpose of general transportation.
(2) It is an offence against these regulations to operate an antique motor vehicle in contravention of the requirements of this Division or the conditions set out in a licence issued under section 22.03.
(3) Unless an antique motor vehicle is equipped with lamps and reflectors that comply with the requirements of Division 4 of the regulations, the operation of the vehicle shall be confined to use during the period of 1/2 hour before sunrise to 1/2 hour after sunset.
[en. B.C. Reg. 55/66; am. B.C. Reg. 317/91, s. 6.]
Division 22A — Collector Motor Vehicles
22A.01 (1) In this regulation "collector motor vehicle" means a vehicle that
(a) is at least
(i) 25 years old and is considered by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia to be of collectible value, or
(ii) 15 years old and because of discontinued production or limited availability is considered by the corporation to be of collectible value,
(b) is maintained or restored to a condition that conforms to the original manufacturer's specifications, and
(c) is used solely for pleasure purposes and not for travel to and from work or school.
(1.1) The provisions of this Division that apply to a collector motor vehicle apply to a vehicle that
(a) is registered in British Columbia as a 1948 or earlier model,
(b) has a replacement from its original front end suspension, engine, drive train or body,
(c) is in a condition that the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia considers to make it of collectible value, and
(d) is used solely for pleasure purposes and not for travel to and from work or school.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) (c) and (1.1) (d), a truck may carry a load for the purposes of parades or exhibitions if the carrying of the load is not for gain.
[en. B.C. Reg. 419/90, s. 7; am. B.C. Regs. 317/96, s. 1; 303/2000, s. 1.]
22A.02 Licences for collector motor vehicles are hereby established.
[en. B.C. Reg. 419/90, s. 7.]
22A.03 (1) The owner of a collector motor vehicle may apply for registration and a licence for the vehicle in accordance with section 3 (3) of the Act.
(2) The owner shall include photographs of the vehicle with the application, one each showing the front, one side, the interior of the engine compartment and the interior of the passenger compartment.
(3) No application shall be made for a vehicle that is not fully assembled.
(4) The owner must include a valid passed AirCare Test certificate for the collector motor vehicle with the application, unless the collector motor vehicle is exempt under sections 2 (a), (b), (e), (f) or (h) or 3 of B.C. Reg. 320/92, the Emission Inspection Exemption Regulation.
[en. B.C. Reg. 419/90, s. 7; am. B.C. Reg. 303/2000, s. 2.]
22A.04 A licence established under this Division and issued for a collector motor vehicle may, with the prior approval of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, be used for other collector motor vehicles owned by the holder of the licence.
[en. B.C. Reg. 419/90, s. 7; am. B.C. Reg. 317/96, s. 1.]
22A.05 (1) Where the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia has, under section 22A.04, approved the use of a licence for 2 or more collector motor vehicles the corporation shall, notwithstanding the Act, issue only one distinctive number plate for use with all of those vehicles.
(2) A reference in the Act or regulations to 2 number plates applies to the plate referred to in subsection (1).
[en. B.C. Reg. 20/91, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 317/96, s. 1.]
22A.06 (1) No person shall drive or operate a collector motor vehicle on a highway other than in accordance with this regulation.
(2) No person shall drive or operate a collector motor vehicle on a highway at any time during the period from 1/2 hour after sunset to 1/2 hour before sunrise or at any time when, because of insufficient light or unfavorable conditions, persons or vehicles on a highway are not clearly discernible at a distance of 150 m unless the collector motor vehicle is equipped with lamps and reflectors that comply with the requirements of Division 4.
(3) Where one distinctive number plate has been issued under section 22A.05 for use with a number of collector motor vehicles, no person shall drive or operate any of those vehicles on a highway unless the distinctive number plate is displayed on the rear of that vehicle while it is on the highway.
[en. B.C. Reg. 419/90, s. 7; am. B.C. Reg. 20/91, ss. 1, 2.]
Division 23 — Traffic Control Devices
23.01 In this Division:
"authority" means the Minister of Transportation and Highways or the council of a municipality in which a traffic control signal system is placed, erected or maintained, and includes a person duly authorized by either of them;
"indication" means a signal lens display that is activated by internal illumination;
"left turn signal control system" means a protected left turn signal control system or a protected/permissive left turn signal control system;
"protected left turn signal control system" means a traffic control signal system that, by means of a steady green arrow indication, instructs a driver to turn left and then, by means of a circular yellow indication followed by a circular red indication, instructs him to stop until the next green arrow indication is displayed;
"protected/permissive left turn signal control system" means a traffic control signal system that, by means of a flashing green arrow indication in conjunction with a circular red or a circular green indication, instructs a driver to turn left and then, by means of a steady yellow arrow indication followed by a circular green indication, instructs him that he is permitted to turn left when it is safe to do so;
"regulatory" means a type of traffic sign which advises a motorist or pedestrian that certain action is required of him; disregard of such a sign constitutes an offence;
"traffic control signal system" means all of the equipment making up a traffic signal installation at any location, but does not include
(a) a continuously flashing circular yellow or circular red light that is not in a traffic signal head,
(b) a fire signal,
(c) a lane use signal,
(d) a temporary signal at a construction or maintenance project,
(e) a freeway entrance ramp signal,
(f) a signal at a swing or lift bridge or at a railway crossing, and
(g) any other special purpose signal;
"traffic signal head" means that part of a traffic control signal system that consists of one set of no less than 3 lenses that are coloured red, yellow and green and are mounted on a frame;
"warning" means a type of traffic sign which warns a motorist that conditions on or adjacent to a highway are potentially hazardous to pedestrians or to vehicular traffic.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 426/87, s. 1.]
23.02 All traffic signs corresponding to those depicted in Schedule 1 of this regulation shall conform with respect to shape, colour, minimum dimensions, symbols, wording and reflectorization to the standard traffic signs shown and described in Schedule 1.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 301/86, s. 1.]
23.03 All traffic signs corresponding to those depicted in Schedule 2 of this regulation, if erected after June 30, 1978, shall conform with respect to shape, colour, minimum dimensions, symbols, wording and reflectorization to the standard traffic signs shown and described in Schedule 2.
[en. B. C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 301/86, s. 1.]
23.04 Despite section 23.02, until December 31, 2004, any signs in Schedule 3 of this Division that correspond to those depicted in Schedule 1 of this Division may be used in place of the signs in Schedule 1 which have the same titles and meanings.
[en. B. C. Reg. 6/2001, s. 1.]
23.05 All traffic signs depicted in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 shall have the titles and meanings accompanying each sign illustration or group of illustrations. The words "regulatory" and "warning" following the title of a sign or group of signs in a schedule designates the sign type.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1.]
23.06 All regulatory or warning signs, other than those depicted in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 shall conform in design and colour with regulatory or warning signs of similar functional type shown in the 3 schedules.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77. s. 1.]
23.07 Sign dimensions, as shown in Schedules 1, 2 and 3, are the minimum dimensions that may be used. If a larger sign is used, it shall have the same proportionate shape as its minimum. For diamond shaped and triangular shaped signs, the dimensions are for the sign sides, not the diameters. Dimensions specified for any other sign shape are for the horizontal diameter followed by the vertical diameter.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1.]
23.08 Wherever the word "reflectorized" is used in Schedules 1, 2 and 3, the word "illuminated" may be substituted.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1.]
23.09 (1) An electrically operated traffic control signal system by which traffic is directed to stop and to proceed shall
(a) consist of traffic signal heads containing one circular red indication and one circular yellow indication, and may be in combination with one or more of the following:
(i) a circular green indication;
(ii) one or more green arrow indications;
(iii) one yellow arrow indication;
(iv) one white rectangle indication,
and more than one indication may be illuminated at the same time,
(b) have the lenses of the traffic signal heads vertically arranged in the following order from top to bottom:
white rectangle;
circular red;
circular yellow;
circular green;
straight through green arrow;
left turn yellow arrow;
left turn green arrow;
right turn yellow arrow;
right turn green arrow, and
(c) have at least 2 traffic signal heads for each approach direction located as follows:
(i) for traffic control signal systems except left turn signal control systems,
(A) one traffic control signal head shall be suspended on the far side of each intersection over the right side of the roadway, and
(B) the other traffic signal head shall be located either on the far left side of each intersection or, where there is a protected left turn signal control system at that location, on the far right side of the intersection, adjacent to and clear of the roadway;
(ii) for protected/permissive left turn signal control systems,
(A) one traffic signal head shall be suspended on the far side of each intersection over the furthest left lane on the right side of the roadway, and
(B) the other traffic signal head shall be located on the far left side of each intersection adjacent to and clear of the roadway;
(iii) for protected left turn signal control systems,
(A) one traffic signal head shall be located on the far side of each intersection, either on the median island or suspended over the opposing left turn lane, and
(B) the other traffic signal head shall be located on the far left side of each intersection adjacent to and clear of the roadway.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) (c), the lowest part of a traffic signal head shall be
(a) not less than 4.75 m nor more than 6.0 m above the roadway, if the traffic signal head is suspended, and
(b) not less than 1.25 m nor more than 4.75 m above the roadway, if the traffic signal head is located adjacent to and clear of the roadway.
(3) Where a pedestrian signal head is installed, it shall
(a) contain square or rectangular lenses with white or orange written or symbolic messages, white indicating a "walk" message and orange indicating a "don't walk" message,
(b) be located at the end of the crosswalk with the lowest part of the pedestrian signal head not less than 2.5 m nor more than 3 m above the roadway, and
(c) be separated laterally from traffic signal heads pointing in the same direction.
(4) Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 241/88, s. 1.]
[en. B.C. Reg. 426/87, s. 2; am. B.C. Regs. 241/88, s. 1; 147/94.]
23.10 Where an electrically operated traffic control signal installation is installed at a location other than a simple intersection, the arrangement of the signal heads shall comply as nearly as possible with the provisions of this regulation.
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1.]
23.11 An authority must not install
(a) a traffic control system that does not comply with section 23.09 or 23.10, or
(b) a protected/permissive left turn signal control system that does not display a steady left turn yellow arrow, or a circular yellow, indication immediately after a left turn green arrow indication, except in railway pre-emption clearance where the green arrow is used to clear vehicles from the railway tracks, in which case the green arrow may be followed by a circular yellow indication.
[en. B.C. Reg. 29/98.]
23.12 Where a warning or regulatory sign other than a 30 KILOMETRES PER HOUR TAB is erected by an authority, the authority may substitute another weight, speed, distance or time for the weight, speed, distance or time set out in Schedule 1, 2 or 3 in respect of that sign and the sign erected with this change is valid for the purpose of Schedule 1, 2 or 3 as the case may be.
[en. B.C. Reg. 72/90, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 36/92.]
[en. B.C.
Reg. 598/77, s. 1; am. B.C. Regs. 301/86, s. 3; 443/88, s. 1;
55/89; 7/90; 72/90, s. 2; 35/92; 287/93, s. 2; 230/94; 12/95; 16/96; 6/2001, ss.
2 to 10.]
[en. B.C. Reg. 598/77, s. 1; am. B.C. Reg. 443/88, s. 2.]
[en. B.C. Reg. 6/2001, s.11.]
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