3206 To regulate election campaign signs.BY-LAW NUMBER 3206
OF
THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF TILLSONB UR G
A BY-LAW to regulate election campaign signs.
Definitions
1. In this by-law,
"campaign sign" means an outdoor sign or other outdoor advertising device which by the use of
words, pictures or graphics or any combination thereof is intended to influence persons
(a) to give or to refrain from giving their votes to a candidate at an election held in
accordance with the Canada Elections Act, the Elections Act (Ontario), or the
Municipal Elections Act, 1996;
(b) to vote in favour of or against any question or by-law submitted to the electors
under section 8 of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996;
"local board" means a local board as defined in section 1 of the Municipal Affairs Act,
"candidate" means a person officially nominated as a candidate at an election;
"Clerk" means the Clerk of the Municipality;
"road allowance" means the property owned by the municipality and may include the portion covered
by asphalt, curbing, grass and concrete and includes the traveled road, the boulevard and the
sidewalk.
"roadway" means the part of the road allowance that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for
vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and, where a road allowance includes two or
more separate roadways, the term "roadway" refers to any one roadway separately, and not to
all of the roadways collectively;
"polling place" means the physical building which will house the voting ballots, booths and boxes.
"sight triangle" means on a corner lot or an entrance to a property with in the triangular space
formed by the street lines and a line drawn from a point in one street line to a point in the other
street line, each such point being 29.5 feet (9 metre) measured along the street line from the point
of intersection of the street lines, no building or structure which would obstruct the vision of
drivers of motor vehicles shall be erected. Such triangular space may hereinafter be called a
"sight triangle"
Administration
2. The. administration of this by-law is assigned to the Clerk.
Road Allowance
3. (1) No person shall place a campaign sign, or cause a campaign sign to be placed,
on a road allowance if the sign or any portion thereof is:
(a) on or over the roadway or a sidewalk;
(b) closer than 3 metres (9.84 feet) to the edge of the roadway;
(c) within a sight triangle at the intersection of two roadways;
(d) where a road allowance includes a sidewalk adjacent to a roadway, on the portion
of the road allowance between the sidewalk and the roadway; and
(e) where a road allowance includes two or more separate roadways, on the portion
of the road allowance between each roadway.
(2) No person shall place a campaign sign, or cause a campaign sign to be placed,
on a road allowance closer than 3 metres (9.84 feet) to a private drive.
Utility Pole, Etc.
4. (1) No person shall at any time nail or otherwise attach a campaign sign, or cause a
campaign sign to be nailed or otherwise attached, to or upon any utility pole, light
pole, utility box, tree, bus shelter, planter, bench, waste receptacle, newspaper box,
or mail box located on a road allowance.
Polling Places
5. (1) No person shall at any time on any election voting day, including those days when
advance election voting is held, place a campaign sign, or cause a campaign sign to
be placed within 30 metres (100 feet) of any polling place for elections.
Removal of Signs
6. (1) When the Clerk has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a
campaign sign on a road allowance or in any public park or on any property owned or
occupied by the Corporation or a local board,
(a) is placed nailed or otherwise attached contrary to any provision of this by-law, or
(b) creates a hazard to vehicular traffic or pedestrians,
the Clerk may cause the campaign sign to be removed pursuant to this section, the
candidate is liable to a charge of either $50 or the actual cost of removing the
campaign sign, whichever is the greater.
Enforcement
7. Every person who contravenes any provision of this by-law is guilty of an offence.
Commencement
This by-law comes into force on the day it is passed.
READ A FIRST AND SECOND TIME THIS 24th DAY OF April, 2006.
REAL) A THIRD AND FINAL
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MAYOR -Stephen Molnar
CLERK -Michael Graves
TIME AND PASSED THIS 8th DAY OF May, 2006.