Bill 65 explained in plain English
Safe Roundabouts Act, 2015
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Safe Roundabouts Act, 2015 amends the Highway Traffic Act to grant the Minister of Transportation the authority to establish regulations for roundabout use after conducting studies and public consultations.
This bill amends the Highway Traffic Act to allow the Minister of Transportation to create rules for how people should drive in roundabouts. Before making any rules, the Minister must study how roundabouts can be used safely and talk to the public. The Minister must also report to the Legislative Assembly each year on the progress of creating these rules, until the rules are actually made. The bill also defines what a 'roundabout' is for the purposes of the Act, stating that traffic entering a roundabout must yield to traffic already inside it.
- Amends the Highway Traffic Act to allow the Minister of Transportation to create regulations for roundabouts.
- Requires the Minister to conduct a study on the safe use of roundabouts before making regulations.
- Requires the Minister to consult with the public about roundabout use before making regulations.
- Specifies the matters that must be included in the study on safe roundabout use.
- Requires the Minister to table an annual progress report in the Legislative Assembly if regulations have not yet been made.
- Defines a 'roundabout' for the purposes of the Act.
- States that entering traffic must yield to circulating traffic in a roundabout.
- The Minister of Transportation
- Members of the public
- Drivers
- The Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The Minister must conduct a study on safe roundabout use.
- The Minister must consult with the public.
- The Minister must table an annual progress report if regulations are not yet made.
- Traffic entering a roundabout must yield the right-of-way to traffic circulating within the roundabout.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The bill does not specify the exact date by which the Minister must make regulations for roundabouts.
- The bill does not specify the content of the regulations themselves, only the process for creating them.
- The requirement to conduct a study and consult the public does not apply to regulations that amend, remake, or revoke the first regulation made under this section.
Adds a new section that allows the Minister of Transportation to create regulations for roundabouts, after conducting a study and public consultation. It also defines a roundabout and sets out the requirement for entering traffic to yield to circulating traffic.
Source: Section 1
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