CANADA
PROVINCE OF QUEBEC
DISTRICT OF MONTREAL
BY-LAW 685
CITY OF WESTMOUNT
At a general sitting of the municipal Council of the City of
Westmount, duly called and held at the City Hall on the seventh day
of February 1966, at which were present:
Mayor
M.L. Tucker, Chairman
Aldermen C.P. Beaubien
F.W. Gross
P.M. McEntyre
WHEREAS the municipal Council of the City may establish and
maintain parking places or buildings for motor vehicles, install
parking chronometers and fix tariffs for the use of such places; and
WHEREAS it is in the interest of the City that the municipal
Council avail itself of the foregoing right;
It is ordained and enacted by By-law 685, entitled *'BY-LAW
PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF PARKING METERS", as follows
ARTICLE 1:
For purposes of this By-law, the following expressions shall
govern:-
(a) Parking meter or meter - an automatic or other mechanical device
and the standard on which it is set for measuring and recording
the duration of parking of a vehicle in a parking unit and
collecting the fee established for same;
(b) Parking unit or unit - that part of the surface of a street, lane,
square, road, public place or of any other public or private land
belonging to the City or of which it has the use or possession,
on which the parking of a vehicle is regulated and measured by a
parking meter.
ARTICLE 2:
Meters shall be installed and used at and in conjunction with
parking units which are hereby established in the following areas
(a) Lots Nos. pts 362, 363 adjoining the west side of Greene Avenue,
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ARTICLE 3
The following tariffs for the use of parking units shall apply
from 8:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. on all days except Sundays and statutory
holidays.
(a) In the case of meters, referred to in paragraph (a) of Article 2
hereof, a fee of $0.25 for a maximum period of one hour, or, at
the election of the driver,
of two hours.
fee of $0.50 for a maximum period
ARTICLE 4:
Nothing in this 3y-law shall prevent a driver, at or before the
expiry of the permitted parking time, from depositing additional coins
in the prescribed amounts so as to again benefit from the maximum
parking time permitted in the unit.
ARTICLE 5:
Fees deposited in parking meters shall be the property of the
City and shall be collected by persons authorized by the City Treasurer.
aRTICLE 6:
Unless otherwise indicated, any vehicle left in a parking unit
shall be so placed that the front or rear appendages or attachments
thereof shall be opposite or as close as practicable to the parking
meter provided for such unit.
ARTICLE 7:
V/hen a vehicle is of such length that it is impossible to park
it within one parking unit, the parking fees required shall be
deposited in each of the parking meters governing the units thus being
used.
aRTIGLE 8:
Subject to the exception provided in the foregoing article, no
vehicle shall be parked in a unit in such a manner as to encroach on
an adjacent unit.
ARTICLE 9:
When
a vehicle is parked in a parking unit,the person parking
shall make use, unless otherwise indicated, of the parking
meter governing such unit and shall pay the prescribed parking fee by
inserting in the meter a coin in Canadian currency of the prescribed
denomination and immediately set the mechanism of the meter in operation.
such vehicle
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ARTICLE 10;
No vehicle shall be permitted to park in a parking unit without
paying the required fee nor remain parked for a period longer than that
for which the required fee has been paid. The meter shall be equipped
with a signal indicating either that no fee has been paid or that the
period paid for has expired.
ARTICLE 11;
The Chief of Police, when he deems it advisable, may interrupt
the use of parking meters or prohibit the parking of vehicles, within
the parking units, for certain periods of time ♦hethet' for maintenance,
repairs, snow removal or otherwise, or in case of fire or other
emergency.
ARTICLE 12;
Adequate signs shall be erected to inform the public or rele
vant parking reatrictions set forth in this By-law.
ARTICLE 13;
No person shall deposit in any parking meter any substitute
for a coin in Canadian currency, or deface, injure, damage, tajnper
with or break, destroy or impair the usefullness of any parking meter
established under the provisions of this By-law.
ARTICLE 14;
In the event of any infraetlon to Artisles 6,7,8,9 and 10 of
this By-law, a police officer or constable to whom notice of such
infraction has come, may fill out, at the place of the infraction,
a notice of summons stating the nature of the infraction and deliver
to the driver of the motor vehicle involved or depesit in a conspicu
ous place on such motor vehicle a copy cf such notice and return the
original thereof to the Department of Public Safety.
ARTICLE 15:
A person in possession of copy of the notice set forth in the
foregoing article may avoid the lodging of a complaint by attending at
the Department of Public Safety and paying a fine in the amount of
$4.00.
ARTICLE 16;
Nothing contained in the foregoing provisions shall prevent the
lodging of a complaint and the issuance of a summons, with or without
prior notice of
summons.
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ARTICLE 17:
Any person infringing the provisions of this By-law shall be
liable to a fine^ with or without costs> in the amount of $4.00 in the
event of an infraction to Articles 6,7,8>9 and 10 of this By-law and in
the maximum amount of $100.00 in the event of an infraction to any
other provision of this By-law. For every such infraction and in
default of immediate payment of such fine^ with costs^ every such
person shall be liable to imprisonment for not more than one week, but
such imprisonment shall cease upon payment of such fine and costs. If
the infraction
continues, such continuation shall constitute a
separate offence day by day.
ARTICLE 18:
Any police officer or constable is authorized, if so instructed
by the Chief of Police or officer in charge of the police force, to
remove or cause to be removed and stored, at the expense and risk of
the registered owner, any vehicle parked in contravention of this By-law,
ARTICLE 19:
This By-law shall c-ome into foree according to law.
City
Clerk
Coat
of
Arms
CITY OF WESTMOUNT
BY-LAW 685
Public notice is hereby given to all who may be concerned that
By-law 685 entitled "BY-LAW PROVIDING FOR THE USE OF PARKING METERS"
was adopted by the municipal Council of the City of Westmount at a
general meeting held at the City Hall on Monday, 7th February 1966.
Details relating to said by-law are fully set out in By-law
685 which is open for inspection by all persons interested at the
office of the City Clerk, City Hall, Weslmount.
Given at Westmount this eleventh day of February 1966.
M.L. TUCKER
Mayor
R.B. SEAMAN
City Clerk
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I hereby declare that the foregoing
is a true copy of public.notice in connection
with By-law 685 which appeared in the Gazette
and Le Devoir on 11th and 12th February 1966.
City Clerk