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Volume 62, No. 19

202/2019

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

September 24, 2019

B.C. Reg. 202/2019 , deposited September 20, 2019, under the MOTOR VEHICLE ACT [section 210 (2) (a)] and the OFFENCE ACT [section 132]. Order in Council 497/2019, approved and ordered September 20, 2019.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58, is amended as set out

in the attached Appendix 1, and

(

b) the Violation Ticket Administration and Fines Regulation, B.C. Reg. 89/97,

is amended as set out in the attached Appendix 2.

— D. EBY, Attorney General ; C. TREVENA, Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure ; K. CONROY, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Appendix 1

1 The following

section is added to the Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58:

When and where commercial motor vehicles must carry chains

7.1635

(1) In this section, "carry chains" means to store chains or a traction device, as applicable to the commercial motor

vehicle under sections 7.163 to 7.1634, in or on the motor vehicle such that the chains

or traction device is available to the driver of the motor vehicle to equip the motor

vehicle with if the minister, under

section 208 of the Act, prohibits the motor vehicle

from being driven or operated without being equipped with chains or a traction device.

(2) Except as provided in subsection (3), (4) or (5), a person who drives or operates

a commercial motor vehicle must carry chains from October 1 of each year to April 30

of the following year.

(3) A person who drives or operates a commercial motor vehicle on the following

routes on Vancouver Island is not required to carry chains from April 1 to April 30

of each year:

(

a) on Highway 1 between West Shore Parkway and Frayne Road;

(

b) on Highway 4 between Highway 19 and Tofino Ucluelet Highway;

(

c) on Highway 14 west of Sooke;

(

d) on Highway 18;

(

e) on Highway 19 north of Campbell River;

(

f) on Highway 28;

(

g) on Pacific Marine Road.

(4) A person who drives or operates a commercial motor vehicle on the following

routes is not required to carry chains from April 1 to April 30 of each year:

(

a) on Highway 1 between Highway 9 and Highway 97;

(

b) on Highway 3 between Highway 5A and Highway 97;

(

c) on Highway 3A;

(

d) on Highway 3B east of Highway 22;

(

e) on Highway 5A between Merritt and Kamloops and between Highway 3 and Highway 97C;

(

f) on Highway 6 between Highway 97 and Cherryville and between Needles Ferry

and Nelway Border Crossing;

(

g) on Highway 7 east of Highway 9;

(

h) on Highway 8;

(

i) on Highway 12;

(

j) on Highway 16 west of Terrace;

(

k) on Highway 21;

(

l) on Highway 22 north of Trail;

(

m) on Highway 22A;

(

n) on Highway 23 south of Highway 1;

(

o) on Highway 31 between Highway 23 and Sawczuk Road and south of Gerrard Bridge;

(

p) on Highway 31A;

(

q) on Highway 33;

(

r) on Highway 37 south of Terrace;

(

s) on Highway 41;

(

t) on Highway 97 between the border with the United States south of Osoyoos and

Highway 1;

(

u) on Highway 97A;

(

v) on Highway 97B;

(

w) on Highway 97C between Highway 8 and Highway 1;

(

x) on Highway 97D;

(

y) on Highway 99 between Horseshoe Bay and Highway 97;

(

z) on Highway 113.

(5) A person who drives or operates a commercial motor vehicle on the following

routes is not required to carry chains:

(

a) in the Lower Mainland, on highways south of Horseshoe Bay and west of Hope;

(

b) on highways on Haida Gwaii;

(

c) on Vancouver Island, on Highway 14 east of Sooke, Highway 17, Highway 1 south

of West Shore Parkway and Highway 1 north of Frayne Road.

Appendix 2

Schedule 3 of the Violation Ticket Administration and Fines Regulation, B.C.

Reg. 89/97, is amended

(

a) under the heading " Motor Vehicle Act " by adding the following item as indicated:

Provision

Contravention

Fine

(>30 days)

Reduced

Fine

(<=30 days)

Victim Surcharge Levy

Ticketed Amount

(>30 days)

Reduced Ticketed

Amount

(<=30 days)

section 208 (4)

Driver operates a commercial motor vehicle without equipping the vehicle with chains

or a traction device

$520

$495

$78

$598

$573

, and

(

b) under the heading " Motor Vehicle Act Regulations, B.C. Reg. 26/58 " by adding the following item as indicated:

Provision

Contravention

Fine

(>30 days)

Reduced

Fine

(<=30 days)

Victim Surcharge Levy

Ticketed Amount

(>30 days)

Reduced Ticketed

Amount

(<=30 days)

section 7.1635

Driver operates a commercial motor vehicle without carrying chains or a traction

device

$170

$145

$26

$196

$171

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