P-30.3 - Act respecting owners, operators and drivers of heavy vehicles

Section 42.3 Disposition versions

2023-09-01

42.3. A person identified as the operator or the carrier on the most recent trip-document, the record of duty status or the circle-check report provided during a road check to a peace officer by the driver of a motorized heavy vehicle registered in Québec is presumed to control the operation of the vehicle.

For this presumption to be lifted, the person identified as the operator or carrier must produce a written document in which another person has acknowledged being the operator of the heavy vehicle subjected to the road check and must establish that this person in fact controlled the operation of the vehicle.

The Government may, by regulation, formulate rules for applying the means that can be used for the purposes of the first paragraph in the situations it determines.

2005, c. 39, s. 23; 2022, c. 13, s. 84.

In respect of heavy vehicles registered in the name of Hydro-Québec or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the coming into force of the amendments made by 2022, c. 13, s. 84 is fixed at 31 December 2024. (O.C. 76-2023, 2023 G.O. 2, 71)

2023-04-30

42.3. A person identified as the operator or the carrier on the most recent trip-document, the record of duty status or the circle-check report provided during a road check to a peace officer by the driver of a motorized heavy vehicle registered in Québec is presumed to control the operation of the vehicle.

For this presumption to be lifted, the person identified as the operator or carrier must produce a written document in which another person has acknowledged being the operator of the heavy vehicle subjected to the road check and must establish that this person in fact controlled the operation of the vehicle.

The Government may, by regulation, formulate rules for applying the means that can be used for the purposes of the first paragraph in the situations it determines.

2005, c. 39, s. 23; 2022, c. 13, s. 84.

In respect of heavy vehicles registered in the name of the Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable that are under the management of the Centre de gestion de l'équipement roulant of that department, the coming into force of the amendments made by 2022, c. 13, s. 84 is fixed at 1 September 2023 and to 31 December 2024 in respect of heavy vehicles registered in the name of Hydro-Québec or one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries. (O.C. 76-2023, 2023 G.O. 2, 71)

2007-01-01

42.3. A person identified as the operator or the carrier on the most recent trip-document, the daily log or the circle-check report shown during a road check to a peace officer by the driver of a motorized heavy vehicle registered in Québec is presumed to control the operation of the vehicle.

For this presumption to be lifted, the person identified as the operator or carrier must produce a written document in which another person has acknowledged being the operator of the heavy vehicle subjected to the road check and must establish that this person in fact controlled the operation of the vehicle.

The Government may, by regulation, formulate rules for applying the means that can be used for the purposes of the first paragraph in the situations it determines.

2005, c. 39, s. 23.