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Median Crossing Regulations

made under subsection 112(2A) of the

Motor Vehicle Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 293

N.S. Reg. 233/2009 (effective June 4, 2009)

amended to N.S. Reg. 139/2021 (effective October 26, 2021)

Table of Contents

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Citation

Definitions

Vehicles exempt from clause 112(1)(

b) of Act

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Median Crossing Regulations .

Definitions

2 In these regulations,

“approved agency” means a municipality, Atlantic Highways Management

Corporation Ltd., Dexter Nova Alliance GP or the Halifax-Dartmouth Bridge

Commission;

“construction vehicle” means a vehicle that is used to provide construction or

maintenance services on a highway and is owned by a person that has an

agreement with the Department or an approved agency to provide construction or

maintenance services on a highway;

“Department” means the Department of Transportation and Infrastructure

Renewal;

“snow and ice control vehicle” means a vehicle that is used to aid in the removal of

snow or ice from a highway and is owned by a person that has an agreement with

the Department or an approved agency to aid in the removal of snow or ice from a

highway;

“traffic management plan” means a plan approved by the traffic authority for

managing traffic during construction or maintenance on a highway.

Vehicles exempt from clause 112(1)(

b) of Act

(1) Subject to the limitation in subsection (2), on a highway that is divided into two

separate roadways by a median, any of the following vehicles may be driven from

one roadway to the other roadway in an area other than an intersection, and clause

112(1)(

b) of the Act does not apply:

(

a) a vehicle that is being operated by a person during the course of their duties,

if the person is any one of the following:

(

i) a conservation officer appointed under an enactment,

(ii) an inspector appointed under

Section 34 of the Motor Carrier Act ,

(iii) a fishery officer or fishery guardian designated under subsection 5(1)

of the Fisheries Act (Canada),

(iv) an officer designated under subsection 12(1) of the Wild Animal and

Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial

Trade Act (Canada),

(

v) a game officer designated under subsection 6(1) of the Migratory

Birds Convention Act, 1994 (Canada),

(vi) an enforcement officer designated under subsection 85(1) of the

Species at Risk Act (Canada),

(vii) a wildlife officer designated under

Section 11 of the Canada Wildlife

Act (Canada);

(

b) a vehicle that is being used for highway maintenance by an employee of an

approved agency

(

i) on a highway that the approved agency is responsible for

maintaining, and

(ii) in accordance with the employee’s duties;

(

c) a snow and ice control vehicle that is being operated to aid in the removal of

snow or ice from a highway under the agreement between its owner and the

Department or an approved agency;

(

d) a construction vehicle that is moving from a closed lane adjacent to the

median in one roadway to a closed lane adjacent to the median in the other

roadway in accordance with a traffic management plan and while it is being

operated under the agreement between its owner and the Department or an

approved agency.

(2) A vehicle referred to in subsection (1) must not be driven from one roadway to the

other unless the median has been specifically designed to allow a vehicle to be

driven across it.

Legislative History

Reference Tables

Median Crossing Regulations

N.S. Reg.

233/2009

Motor Vehicle Act

Note: The

information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is

compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Median Crossing Regulations made under the Motor Vehicle Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

233/2009

Jun 4, 2009

date specified

Jun 19, 2009

46/2021

Mar 12, 2021

date filed

Mar 26, 2021

139/2021

Oct 26, 2021

date specified

Nov 5, 2021

The

following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current

consolidation:

N.S.

Regulation

In force

date*

How in force

Royal Gazette

Part II Issue

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for

rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added

am. = amended

fc. = fee change

ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed

rs . = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

2 ........................................................

am. 139/2021 (clause lettering removed)

2, defn . of “approved agency” ..........

am. 139/2021

3(1)(a) ...............................................

rs . 46/2021

Note that changes to headings are not

included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

Note

Effective

date

The reference to the Department of Natural Resources in

Section 3(1)(

a) should be read as a reference to the Department of Lands and

Forestry in accordance with Order in Council 2018-188 under the Public Service Act , R.S.N.S. 1989, c.

376. (Corrected by N.S. Reg. 46/2021)

Jul 5, 2018

The reference to the Department of Transportation and

Infrastructure Renewal in s. 2(

c) should be read as a reference to the

Department of Transportation and Active Transit in accordance with O.I.C.

2021-56 under the Public Service Act ,

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 376.

Feb 23, 2021

The reference to the Department of Transportation and

Infrastructure Renewal in s. 2(

c) should be read as a reference to the Department

of Public Works in accordance with O.I.C. 2021-209 under the Public Service Act , R.S.N.S. 1989, c.

Aug 31, 2021

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.

Regulation

Title

In force

date

Repealed

date

Note: Only

regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table . It may not reflect

the entire history of regulations on this subject matter.