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Surrey By-law 13007, s. 84(1) — Highway and Traffic Bylaw

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Except as authorized by a permit issued by the Engineer pursuant to this By-law,

no person shall:

  • (a) place any fuel, lumber, blocks, rock, stone, merchandise, chattel or wares of any nature on any highway;
  • (b) deposit, throw, or leave any earth, refuse, debris or other thing on a highway;
  • (c) being the owner or occupier of property abutting on a highway, cause or permit any earth, rocks, stones, logs or stumps or other things to cave, fall, crumble, slide or accumulate from any such property upon a highway or, being there, to remain thereon;
  • (d) drag or skid anything along or over a highway;
  • (e) dig up, break up or remove any part of a highway; cut down or remove trees or timber growing on a highway; or excavate in or under a highway;
  • (f) change the level of a highway whatsoever, or stop the flow of water through any drain, sewer or culvert on or through a highway;
  • (g) place, construct or maintain a loading platform, skids, rails, mechanical devices, buildings, signs or any other structures or things on a highway;
  • (h) construct or maintain a ditch, sewer or drain, the effluent from which causes damage, fouling, nuisance or injury to any portion of a highway;
  • (i) mark, imprint or deface in any manner whatsoever a highway or structure thereon;
  • (j) ride, drive, lead, move or propel any animal or vehicle over or across a boulevard, - 32 - including any curb, sidewalk, walkway or ditch therein except on a driveway;
  • (k) construct a driveway, including a curb, ditch or sidewalk or walkway crossing;
  • (l) cause damage to, cut down or remove trees, shrubs, plants, bushes and hedges, fences or other things erected or maintained on a boulevard;
  • (m) operate a vehicle while sounding a calliope, loudspeaker or other noise making device;
  • (n) march, drive or otherwise take part in a parade or procession except a funeral procession;
  • (o) conduct construction on a highway or traffic control relating to such construction;
  • (p) conduct construction on land adjacent to a highway where access from the highway to the land is required for that purpose;
  • (q) obstruct or interfere with the free flow of traffic or attempt to control or detour traffic on any highway, whether by use of signs or flagpersons or by barricades or other physical obstruction on the highway, provided that this clause shall not apply to:
  • (i) a Peace Officer, By-law Enforcement Officer, Parking Patroller or Firefighter acting in the normal course of his or her duties;
  • (ii) a student or adult school patrol acting under the authority of the School Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 412, as amended, or authorized by the Chief of Police;
  • (iii) emergency vehicles or public utility or City crews while making emergency repairs within a highway; or
  • (iv) vehicles while legally parked on a highway or while obeying the instructions of

a traffic control device or Peace Officer.

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