Ajax : Règlement no 45-2020, art. 1 — DEFINITIONS 1.1. “accessible parking permit” means a permit issued under the Highway Traffic Act or a currently valid accessible permit, number plate or other marker or device, bearing the international symbol of access for persons with a disability, issued by another jurisdiction and recognized under the Highway Traffic Act

DEFINITIONS 1.1. “accessible parking permit” means a permit issued under the Highway Traffic Act or a currently valid accessible permit, number plate or other marker or device, bearing the international symbol of access for persons with a disability, issued by another jurisdiction and recognized under the Highway Traffic Act.

1.2. “apron” means an area of the boulevard consisting of a hard surface leading from the travelled portion of the highway to private property. 1.3. “bicycle” includes a tricycle, a unicycle and a power-assisted bicycle but does not include a motor-assisted bicycle. 1.4. “boulevard” means all parts of the highway except any roadway, shoulder or sidewalk. 1.5. “bus stop” means that part of a highway designated by a sign where buses will stop to take on or let off passengers. 1.6. “Chief of Police” means the Chief of Police of the Durham Regional Police Service. 1.7. “commercial vehicle” means any vehicle designated or operated for the transportation of property or a bus which vehicle or bus exceeds 2.6 m in width or 7 m in length and shall include a tow truck. 1.8. "designated parking space" means a parking space provided and identified by an official sign for the exclusive use of a vehicle displaying an accessible parking permit in accordance with the requirements of the Highway Traffic Act. 1.9. “driveway” means that portion of a property used to provide vehicular access from a highway to an off-street parking or loading area located on the same lot. 1.10. “electric vehicle” means a vehicle that is propelled by one or more electric motors, using electrical energy stored in rechargeable batteries or another energy storage device and is capable of being plugged into an electric vehicle charging station, such as, but not limited to, plug-in battery electric cars, fuel cell battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles; 1.11. “electric vehicle charging station” also called “ev charging station” means an element in an infrastructure that supplies electric energy for the recharging of electric vehicles; 1.12. “electric vehicle parking space” means a parking space designated for the use ofelectric vehicles while plugged into an electric vehicle charging station, as indicated by official signs; 1.13. “emergency vehicle” means an ambulance, a fire department vehicle or a police vehicle. 1.14. “fire route” shall mean any private roadway marked as a fire route by fire route signs. 1.15. “fire route sign” means a sign displaying the information “no parking” or a symbol in lieu thereof as specified in the Highway Traffic Act and Regulations passed thereunder, and the words “fire route” 1.16. “footpath” means a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use by pedestrians. 1.17. “heavy vehicle” means a vehicle, object or contrivance for moving loads, having a gross weight, including the vehicle, object or contrivance and load, in excess of five (5) tonnes. 1.18. “highway” includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof. 1.19. "Highway Traffic Act" means the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, as amended from time to time, any regulations passed in accordance with that Act, and any successor legislation thereto. 1.20. “inoperable vehicle” means any vehicle, including a trailer, that appears by reason of its appearance, mechanical condition, or lack of valid licence plates, to be inoperative. A vehicle is an inoperable vehicle if it bears licence plates that are not registered as being attached to that vehicle and/or the licence plate registration is not current and up to date, in accordance with the records of the Ministry of Transportation ; (Amended by By-law 62-2022) 1.21. “intersection” means the area embraced within the prolongation or connection of the lateral curb lines or, if none, then of the lateral boundary lines of two or more highways that join one another at an angle, whether or not one highway crosses the other. 1.22. “median strip” means the portion of a highway so constructed as to separate traffic travelling in one direction from traffic travelling in the opposite direction by a physical barrier or a raised or depressed paved or unpaved separation area that is not intended to allow crossing vehicular movement. 1.23. “motorized snow vehicle” means a self-propelled vehicle designed to be driven primarily on snow. 1.24. “motor vehicle” includes an automobile, a motorcycle, a motor-assisted bicycle unless otherwise indicated in the Highway Traffic Act, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by muscular power, but does not include a street car or other motor vehicle running only upon rails, a power-assisted bicycle, a motorized snow vehicle, a traction engine, a farm tractor, a self- propelled implement of husbandry or a road-building machine. 1.25. “Municipal Law Enforcement Officer” means a person appointed by the Council of the Town to enforce municipal By-laws. 1.26. "municipal property" means property owned or occupied by the Town, any government agency, or any local board thereof. 1.27. “official sign” means means a sign or other device placed or erected on a highway or elsewhere pursuant to a By-law or regulation by the authority having jurisdiction.“owner” when used in relation to property means:

• a) the registered owner of the real property;
• b) the registered owner of a condominium unit, whose consent shall extend only to the control of the unit of which they are the owner and any parking spaces allotted to them by the Condominium Corporation or reserved for their exclusive use in the declaration or description of the property;
• c) the spouse of a person described in sub-clauses
• (a) or (b);
• d) where the real property is included in a description registered under the Condominium Act, 1998, S.O. 1998 c 19 the Board of Directors of the Condominium Corporation; and,
• e) a person authorized by the owner to act on the owner's behalf for requesting the enforcement of this By-law. 1.28. “occasional use parking permit” means a permit issued by the Town to authorize parking on the highway, subject to the conditions of its issuance, for providing exemption to specific parking prohibitions; 1.29. “occupant” means:
• a) the tenant of the real property or part thereof whose consent shall extend only to the control of the real property of which they are a tenant and any parking spaces allotted to them under his lease or tenancy agreement;
• b) the spouse of a tenant;
• c) a person or a municipality, or a local board thereof, having an interest in the property under an easement or right of way granted to or expropriated by the person, municipality or local board whose consent shall extend only to the part of the property that is subject to the easement or right of way; and,
• d) a person authorized in writing by an occupant to act on the occupant's behalf for requesting the enforcement of this By-law. 1.30. “park/parking” when prohibited, means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when standing temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers. 1.31. “parking space” means that part of the surface of a roadway designated by signs, painted lined or other markings for the purpose of parking a vehicle. 1.32. “pedestrian crossover” means any portion of a roadway at an intersection or elsewhere, distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by signs and/or pavement markings and shall include attended and unattended crossings. 1.33. "person" includes an individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, unincorporated organization, trust, body corporate, and a natural person in his capacity as trustee, executor, administrator or other legal representative. 1.34. “private property” means land that is not Municipal property. 1.35. “private roadway” means any road, laneway, ramp or other means of vehicular access to or egress from private of Municipal property and it may include part of a parking lot. 1.36. “refreshment vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer or cart, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power which is used for the storage, preparation or sale of food or drink intended for consumption by the public. 1.37. “roadway” means the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively. 1.38. “roundabout” means a form of an intersection that accommodates traffic flow in a counter clockwise direction around a centre island and has raised median islands at the approaches. 1.39. “school bus loading zone” means the part of a highway designated by official signs for the purpose of discharging and receiving passengers; 1.40. “school purpose vehicle” means, for the purpose of this By-law;
• a) a school bus as defined in the Highway Traffic Act;
• b) a station wagon, van or bus, operated by or under contract with a school board or other authority in charge of a school including vehicles which are used as transportation service providers to persons with a disability. 1.41. “shoulder” means the part of the highway immediately adjacent to the travelled portion of the roadway and having a surface which has been improved for the use of vehicles. 1.42. “sidewalk” means the part of the highway set aside for the use of pedestrians or used by the general public for the passage of pedestrians, and includes multiuse trails. 1.43. “stand/standing” when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, whether occupied or not, except for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. 1.44. “stop/stopping” when prohibited, means the halting of a vehicle, even momentarily, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police office or of a traffic control sign or signal. 1.45. “Town” means the Corporation of the Town of Ajax. 1.46. “tow truck” means a vehicle equipped to hoist and pull any motor vehicle to another location or to recover a motor vehicle that is no longer on a drivable surface. 1.47. “traffic” means and includes pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using any highway for purposes of travel. 1.48. “traffic circle” means a form of an intersection that accommodates traffic flow in a circular direction around a centre island. 1.49. “traffic control signal” means any device, manually, electrically or mechanically operated for the regulation or control of traffic. 1.50. “U-turn” means the turning of a vehicle within a roadway so as to proceed in the opposite direction. 1.51. “vehicle” includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road building machine, bicycle and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does not include a motorized snow vehicle or a street car.