All-Terrain Vehicle” means a wheeled or tracked motorized vehicle, excluding a 2 wheeled vehicle, designed or adapted for off-road use, and includes a:
- (i) quad
- (ii) trike
- (iii) utility task vehicle
- (iv) utility terrain vehicle, and
- (v) amphibious extreme terrain motor vehicle.
b. "Bus" means a motor vehicle, designed, or used for the transportation of passengers with a seating capacity of 10 or more in addition to the driver but excluding those motor vehicles when used for personal transportation by the owner or with the owner's permission.
c. "Commercial Vehicle" as per the Town of Paradise Commercial Vehicle Regulations.
d. “Council” means the Town Council of the Town of Paradise.
e. “Emergency Vehicle” means:
- (i) a motor vehicle driven by a peace officer or by a member of the police branch of one of the Crown’s Armed Forces where there is an emergency justifying a rate of speed more than a maximum rate of speed provided for in these Regulations and includes a vehicle so operate by a chief of a volunteer fire department.
- (ii) a motor vehicle carrying firefighting equipment in responding to an alarm of fire, and
- (iii) an ambulance responding to a call or transporting a patient where there is an emergency justifying a rate of speed more than a maximum rate of speed provided for in these Regulations.
f. “Highway” means the entire width between the boundary lines of a highway, road, route, street, way, avenue, thoroughfare, right-of-way, parkway, driveway, lane, alley, square, place, bridge, culvert, viaduct, trestle or causeway, whether it is publicly or privately owned and whether or not it is designed or intended for use by the public, if the whole or any part of it is used by the public for the passage of motor vehicles and includes a trail on a frozen lake, river or other body of water or watercourse when that trail is maintained or kept open at the expense of the province or municipality.
g. "Motorcycle" means a motor vehicle that;
- (i) has steering handlebars completely constrained from rotating in relation to the axle of 1 wheel in contact with the ground,
- (ii) is designed to travel on not more than 3 wheels in contact with the ground, and
- (iii) in the case of a 3-wheel motor vehicle that
- a. does not have as an integral part of the motor vehicle an enclosure around the occupant, and
- b. requires the operator to sit astride the motor vehicle,
- but does not include a competition motorcycle, mini bicycle, moped, motor driven bicycle, a passenger car, a truck, or a multi-purpose motor vehicle.
h. "Motor vehicle" means a device in, upon or by which a person or thing may be transported or drawn upon a Highway, including a Motorcycle.
i. “Municipal Enforcement Officer” means any person appointed by Council who is responsible for carrying out the provisions of this Regulation and shall be deemed a peace officer for the purpose of carrying out this Regulation.
j. “Off-Road Motor vehicle" means all vehicles designed and constructed for travel on or immediately over land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, and other natural terrain, including four-wheel drive low-pressure-tire powered motor vehicles, low-pressure-tire motorcycles and related two-wheel motor vehicles, snowmobiles, amphibious machines, ground effect or air-cushioned motor vehicles, but does not include a motor vehicle.
k. "Park” means to permit a vehicle, whether occupied or not, to stand otherwise than temporarily for the immediate purpose of and while engaged in loading or unloading goods, or taking up or setting down passengers, or making emergency vehicle repairs, or to comply with traffic regulations or traffic signs or the directions of a traffic officer.
l. “Persons” means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, co-operator, club, society, or any other corporate body or organization or any kind.
m. “Public Service Vehicle” means a bus or passenger van used to transport eight (8) or more people, a vehicle used to transport persons with mobility impairments, or a vehicle owned or leased by the Town, which is marked with the Town’s insignia and used for carrying out municipal services.
n. “Recreational Vehicle” shall mean a vehicle designed to provide temporary living, sleeping or eating accommodation for travel, vacation, seasonal camping or recreational use and designed to be driven, towed, transported or relocated from time to time whether or not the vehicle is jacked up or its running gear is removed, and with a size as defined by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and which shall not be used as the principal place of residence of the occupant.
o. "Trailer" means a mobile structure having wheels but no motive power of its own and may or may not be attached to a truck, truck tractor, or other motor vehicle but does not include,
- (i) an implement of husbandry temporarily attached to another motor vehicle,
- (ii) a side car attached to a motorcycle,
- (iii) or a tow dolly designed to be used to tow another motor vehicle where one or more axles of the towed motor vehicle rest on the tow dolly.
p. “Town” shall mean the Town of Paradise, as defined by Order-in-Council the 13th of July 1971, including all lands within the municipal boundary.