Kingston By-law 2023-214, s. 6.2 — Subsection 6.1 does not apply to the following

Subsection 6.1 does not apply to the following:

• police, fire, ambulance or provincial offences officer vehicles or police or fire boats engaged in their ordinary duties, but not where idling is substantially for the convenience of one or more of the operator of or a passenger in the vehicle or boat; Kingston Transit vehicles; vehicles or boats assisting in an emergency activity;

a vehicle with power take-off while it is in the course of being performed ferry boats operated by the Province of Ontario or the County of Frontenac; armoured vehicles where a person remains inside the vehicle while guarding the contents of the vehicle or while the vehicle is being loaded or unloaded; vehicles or boats engaged in the course of a parade or race or any other event authorized by the City; vehicles that are operating on the travelled portion of a drive-thru lane; vehicles or boats that remain motionless because of an emergency over which the driver has no control, or because of mechanical difficulties over which the driver has no control; vehicles or boats where idling is required to repair or prepare the vehicle or boat for service; or agricultural equipment while being operated on agricultural property; buses, but only when passengers are embarking or disembarking; or occupied vehicles where the ambient outside temperature is more than 27 degrees Celsius or less than five degrees Celsius, as measured by Environment Canada readings.