2012 BILL 20

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First Session, 47th General Assembly 61 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

1. S.32 R&S
Advertising signs

2. S.59 Amdt.
Regulations

3. S.68 Added

Fees and forms

4. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1995 cW-12
as amended

1. Section 32 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Advertising signs

32. (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.