First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 20

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKS, SERVICES AND TRANSPORTATION ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

THOMAS J. HEDDERSON

Minister of Transportation and Works

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Works, Services and Transportation Act to

allow the Lieutenant-Governor

in Council to make regulations relating to the installation, maintenance and removal

of signs on, over or adjacent to provincial highways; and

give the minister the authority

to establish fees and forms for the purpose and administration of the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKS, SERVICES AND

TRANSPORTATION ACT

Analysis

S.32 R&S

Advertising signs

S.59 Amdt.

Regulations

S.68 Added

Fees

and forms

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1995 cW-12

as amended

Section 32 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Advertising signs

(1) A

person shall not install or maintain a sign for the purposes of advertisement,

announcement or direction within the control lines established under the regulations.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a sign may be

installed and maintained in accordance with the regulations.

2. Subsection 59(1) of the Act is amended by

adding the following immediately after paragraph (a):

(a.1) providing for the installation, maintenance

and removal of signs on, over or adjacent to provincial highways;

3. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 67 the following:

Fees and forms

68. The

minister may set fees and establish forms for the purpose and administration of

this Act.

Commencement

4. This Act comes into force on a day to be

proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer