TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL 
 
 
BYLAW NO. 456 
 
 
 
A BYLAW TO PROHIBIT TRUCKS TRAVELLING ON ANY STREET 
WITHIN THE TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL 
OTHER THAN ON THE DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE 
 
 
 
The Municipal Council of the Town of View Royal, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows: 
 
 
1. 
This Bylaw may be cited as the "Truck Route Bylaw, No.  456, 2002”. 
 
 
2. 
DEFINITIONS 
 
 
"BYLAW  ENFORCEMENT OFFICER" means any persons appointed as such by the Council; 
 
 
"COUNCIL" means the Municipal Council of the Town of View Royal; 
 
“DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTE” means the designated truck route as indicated on Schedule “A” 
attached to and forming a part of this bylaw; 
 
“RECREATIONAL VEHICLE” means a vehicular type portable structure without permanent 
foundation, which can be towed, hauled or primarily designed as temporary living accommodation for 
recreational camping and travel use and including but not limited to travel trailers, truck campers and 
self propelled motor homes. 
 
 
 
"TOWN" means the Town of View Royal; 
 
 
“TRUCK” means a motor vehicle designed or used primarily for the transportation of material goods 
and includes a vehicle designed and used primarily for towing other vehicles, and, for the purposes 
of clarity, does not include a recreational vehicle, a bus or a crane; 
 
 
“UTILITY”  means gas, water, electrical, telephone, cable companies. 
 
 
 
3. 
GENERAL REGULATIONS 
 
No person shall drive a truck with a total GVWR over 20,000 kilograms upon any street in the 
Town other than on the Designated Truck Route, unless: 
 
(a) during such time as such truck is being used in the making of a delivery in the Town or the 
performance of some work or service in the Town or returning from such duties; and 
 
 
       (b) that person is driving towards a location which there is no alternate route to the person’s   
destination point. 
 

Truck Bylaw, 2002, No.456 
 
 
Page 2 
 
 
 
4. 
EXCEPTIONS 
 
 
The following vehicles shall be exempt from this Bylaw: 
 
(a) 
Farm vehicles 
 
(b) 
Vehicles being used in emergency work by the Town, the Provincial Government, 
Federal Government or any of its agencies, contractors working for the Town of 
View Royal, a utility company, the Town of View Royal Fire Department or vehicles 
of the Canada Post Office. 
 
 
5. 
PENALTY SECTION 
 
 
Every person who, without lawful excuse, contravenes this bylaw by wilfully doing any act which 
 
forbids, or omitting to do any act which it requires to be done, is guilty of an offence and is liable on 
 
summary conviction to a fine of not less than $100.00 and not more than $300.00 for a first offence  
 
and for each subsequent offence to a fine of not less than $200.00 and not more than $500.00. 
 
 
 
 
6. 
SEVERABILITY 
 
 
If any section, subsection, or paragraph of this Bylaw is found invalid by a decision of a Court of 
competent jurisdiction, the invalid section, subsection, or paragraph shall be severed without effect 
on the remainder of the Bylaw. 
 
 
 
READ A  FIRST TIME THIS 
 
22nd 
 
DAY OF 
JANUARY          , 2002 
 
READ A SECOND TIME THIS 
 
22nd 
 
DAY OF 
JANUARY 
, 2002 
 
READ A  THIRD TIME THIS 
 
18th 
 
DAY OF 
NOVEMBER 
, 2003  
 
 
RECONSIDERED, FINALLY PASSED AND ADOPTED BY COUNCIL, SIGNED BY THE MAYOR AND THE 
CLERK AND SEALED WITH THE SEAL OF THE TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL THIS 2ND DAY OF 
DECEMBER, 2003. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
MAYOR 
 
 
 
 
 
CLERK