Area residents are hereby advised of the Provincial and Municipal regulations applicable to the 2011-2012 Winter Season, November 5, 2011 to April 13, 2012 as follows:

The Highway Traffic Act (R.S.O. 1990):

Section 170(12) prohibits the parking of vehicles on any highway in such a manner as to interfere with the movement to traffic or the clearing of snow from the highway.

Section 170(15) provides the authority for the removal of any vehicles, at the owner’s expense, found to be causing an obstruction on a highway.

Section 181 prohibits the depositing of snow or ice on a public roadway.

Municipality of Clarington By-law 91-58 applies all year and states:

Section 4(6)( I) prohibits the parking of vehicles on any roadway for a period longer than three (3) hours, and is also applicable to overnight parking on any road under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Clarington.

Section 4(6)(L) states that no person shall on any highway park any vehicle between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.


Frederick J. Horvath, Director of Operations
Municipality of Clarington
40 Temperance Street
Bowmanville, Ontario L1C 3A6