Date Approved: July 14 1981
Date Reviewed/Amended: May 08 1990
WHEREAS
a) It has been in recent years and still is today in the public interest to permit and encourage use of school lands, buildings and facilities for other than strictly scholastic activities when said lands, buildings and facilities are available;
b) Persons other than students, staff, parents, guardians and employees of the Board have occasion from time to time to make use of said lands, buildings and facilities and are welcome to do so;
c) It has been felt necessary by the Board to define the permissible limits within which students, parents, guardians and employees of the Board and all other persons making use of said lands, buildings and facilities may operate.
NOW THEREFORE THIS BYLAW PROVIDES AS FOLLOWS:
Deliveries
a) Persons proceeding to or from a public school on a roadway provided for that purpose in the course of delivering or receiving chattels in connection with the operation of the said school;
Board Employees
b) Persons proceeding to or from a public school on a roadway provided for that purpose in connection with their duties therein, or on other bona fide business pertaining to the operation of the said school;
Students
c) Persons proceeding to or from a public school on a roadway provided for that purpose, and who are students registered at that school;
Board Consent
d) Parents, guardians, employees of the Board or such other persons proceeding to or from a public school on a roadway provided for that purpose, who have first received permission from the Board, either deemed or expressed.
2. No person shall:
Speed Limit
a) Operate any motorized vehicle on or over any land owned or administered by the Board at a rate of speed greater than sixteen (16) kilometres per hour;
Parking
b) Park, or otherwise leave unattended, a motor vehicle upon land owned or administered by the Board in any area other than those set aside for parking by the Board, unless written permission has been received.
3. Trespassing
a) No person, other than bona fide students registered at a school, parents or guardians or such students and employees of the Board, shall enter upon any land owned or administered by the Board save with prior permission from the Board.
b) No person, having been requested by a school Administrative Officer or other person in authority shall refuse to leave any land owned or administered by the Board;
c) No person shall trespass, cross over or loiter upon any land owned or administered by the Board between the hours of one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise, save with prior permission from the Board;
d) No person shall cause, suffer or permit any domestic or range animal to enter upon land owned or administered by the Board, notwithstanding in open range areas the Provincial statutes governing Range Animal Control shall apply.
4. Responsibility of Registered Owner
The owner of a motor vehicle shall be held responsible for any violation of this Bylaw by a person entrusted by the owner with the possession of the said motor vehicle. The burden of proving that the person so in possession of the motor vehicle was not a person entrusted by the owner with the possession of the said motor vehicle shall be on the said owner.
5. Penalty
Any person contravening or committing any breach of or committing any offence
against this Bylaw or any of the provisions of this Bylaw or who fails, refuses, omits
or neglects to fulfil, observe, carry out or perform any duty, obligation, matter or thing whatsoever by this Bylaw prescribed or imposed or required to be done, is liable, on summary conviction, to such penalties as are prescribed by the Summary Convictions Act.
6. Authority to Make Regulations
The Board may by regulation provide for the erection of traffic control devices to regulate, prohibit, control and direct vehicular and pedestrian traffic on land owned or administered by the Board, and the erection of any such traffic control device shall be deemed prime facie evidence that such device was erected at the direction and with the authority of the Board.
7. Date of Resolution
This Bylaw shall come into force and take effect forthwith.