Bill 79 explained in plain English
Chad's Law (Enforcing Safer Passing), 2025
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Chad's Law (Enforcing Safer Passing), 2025, aims to prohibit drivers from passing other vehicles by crossing double solid yellow lines, imposing a $400 fine and demerit points for violations.
This bill, titled Chad's Law (Enforcing Safer Passing), 2025, proposes to amend the Highway Traffic Act in Ontario. It aims to prohibit drivers from passing or attempting to pass another vehicle if doing so requires crossing double solid yellow lines on the roadway. The bill specifies penalties for contravention, including a fine and demerit points.
- Amends the Highway Traffic Act to introduce a new rule against passing vehicles when it requires crossing double solid yellow lines.
- Establishes an offence for violating this new passing rule.
- Specifies the penalty for this offence as a $400 fine and three or more demerit points.
- States that the Act will come into effect on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Drivers in Ontario
- Law enforcement officers who enforce traffic laws
- The Ministry of Transportation, which administers the Highway Traffic Act and demerit point system.
- Drivers have a new obligation not to pass or attempt to pass another vehicle if it requires crossing double solid yellow lines on the roadway.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Drivers convicted of contravening the new passing rule will be liable to a fine of $400.
- Contravention of the prohibition against passing on double solid yellow lines is an offence.
- Conviction for this offence is liable to a fine of $400.
- Conviction for this offence is liable to three or more demerit points under Ontario Regulation 339/94 (Demerit Point System).
- The bill does not specify what happens if a driver is already in the process of passing when double solid yellow lines begin.
- The bill does not define 'passing' beyond the action of crossing double solid yellow lines.
- The exact date of commencement depends on when the bill receives Royal Assent, which is not specified in the provided text.
Adds a new subsection to Section 148 that prohibits passing other vehicles when it requires crossing double solid yellow lines on the roadway.
Source: Section 1
Introduces a penalty for contravening the new rule against passing on double solid yellow lines, which includes a $400 fine and three or more demerit points.
Source: Section 1 (9) and (10)
Establishes that violations of the new passing rule will result in the application of three or more demerit points under this regulation.
Source: Section 1 (10)(b)
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