BILL NO. 94

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
53 Elizabeth II, 2004

Private Member's Bill

Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)

Charlie Parker
Pictou West

First Reading: September 24, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill requires a warning sign on the rear of a truck, or combinations of trucks, exceeding 7.5 metres in length. The sign would indicate the length of the truck.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

(12) Any vehicle or combination of vehicles exceeding 7.5 metres in length shall, in addition to the requirements of subsection (11), display, at the end of the vehicle or vehicles in such a position as to be clearly visible at all times from the rear of the vehicle or vehicles, a sign indicating the approximate length of the vehicle or combination of vehicles.

2 Subsection 191(1) of Chapter 293, as amended by Chapter 12 of the Acts of 1994-95 and Chapter 12 of the Acts of 2001, is further amended by adding immediately after clause (ae) the following clause:

(af) respecting signs required by subsection (12) of Section 174;

3 This Act comes into force six months after receiving Royal Assent.