Victoria : Règlement no 09-079, art. 96(4) — Streets and Traffic Bylaw

In this subsection and subsection (5), “automated teller machine” means a device that is linked to a financial institution’s account records, and that is able to carry out transactions that include account transfers, deposits, cash withdrawals, balance inquiries, payments of amounts owed, or other financial transactions; "cause an obstruction" means:

• (a) to sit or lie on a street in a manner which obstructs or impedes the convenient passage of any pedestrian traffic in a street, in the course of solicitation,
• (b) to continue to solicit from or otherwise harass a pedestrian after that person has made a negative initial response to the solicitation or has otherwise indicated a refusal,
• (c) to physically approach and solicit from a pedestrian as a member of a group of 3 or more persons,
• (d) to solicit on a street within 6 m of
• (i) an entrance to a bank, credit union, or trust company,
• (ii) an automated teller machine, or
• (iii) a parking ticket dispensing machine, or
• (e) to solicit from an occupant of a motor vehicle in a manner which obstructs or impedes the convenient passage of any vehicular traffic in a street; "solicit" means, without consideration, to ask for money, donations, goods, or other things of value whether by spoken, written or printed word or bodily gesture, for one’s self or for any other person, and solicitation has a corresponding meaning, but does not include soliciting for charity
• (a) by the holder of a permit for soliciting for charity under the Street Collections Bylaw, 1977, and
• (b) by the holder of a licence for soliciting for charity under the provisions of the Business Licence Bylaw; "trust company" means an office or branch of a trust company to which the Trust and Loans Company Act (Canada) applies and in which deposit accounts are held.