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Volume 46, No. 25

B.C. Reg. 472/2003

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 16, 2003

B.C. Reg. 472/2003, deposited December 12, 2003, pursuant to the MOTOR VEHICLE ACT [Section 210]. Order in Council 1237/2003, approved and ordered December 11, 2003.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

section 24.01 of the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, is repealed and the following substituted:

Prohibition — snow vehicle or snowmobile

24.01

(1) In this section:

"chief of police of the municipality" includes, for a municipality policed by the Commissioner of Provincial Police, the senior member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in that municipality;

"gold rush snowmobile trail highway traverse" means that portion of a highway that is traversed by the Gold Rush Snowmobile Trail.

(2) A person must not drive or operate a snow vehicle or snowmobile on a highway within a municipality unless he or she is the holder of a permit to do so in the form established by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and issued by the chief of police of the municipality.

(3) A person must not drive or operate a snow vehicle or snowmobile on a highway in unorganized areas of British Columbia unless he or she is the holder of a permit to do so in the form established by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and issued by a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police stationed nearest to the place where the snow vehicle or snowmobile will be so driven or operated by that person.

(4) Despite subsections (2) and (3), a person may drive or operate a snow vehicle or snowmobile on any gold rush snowmobile trail highway traverse if the person is the holder of a permit to do so in the form established by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and issued by a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police whose detachment is responsible for any gold rush snowmobile trail highway traverse.

(5) A permit under this

section is subject to the limitations and conditions set out in the permit by the chief of police who issues it under subsection (2) or by the member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who issues it under subsection (3) or (4). — R. COLEMAN, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General ; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

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