P-5 - Signboards and Posters Act

Section 2 Disposition versions

1985-04-01

2. In this act:

(1)  The word “posters” or “poster” means any printing, writing, drawing, painting, lithograph or representation by any process whatsoever, placed so as to be seen by the public and used for notices, announcements, advertisements or publicity; but does not include:

(a)  Posters issued by public authority;

(b)  Notices which the law requires to be posted up;

(c)  Posters which an owner, lessee or occupant of a building places thereon to announce the profession, art, trade, industry or other occupation carried on therein by him, the sale of farm products, the sale of the products which he manufactures or any other products sold on the premises, as well as the sale or lease of the immoveable of which such building is a dependency;

(d)  Posters which an owner or lessee of a restaurant, hotel, boarding-house or bungalows (chalets), situated along a road which the Minister of Transport maintains but at a distance therefrom, places near the said road for the purpose of indicating the place where his establishment is situated. In such case, the owner or lessee may have only one poster put up near the road on his property and such poster shall not be more than 1 m in length nor more than 60 cm in width;

(e)  Election posters of a candidate at a Dominion, provincial, municipal or school election;

(f)  Posters on the occasion of a religious or patriotic demonstration;

(g)  Posters to announce an agricultural exhibition;

(h)  Inscriptions in cemeteries;

(i)  Inscriptions of a historical nature authorized by the Minister of Transport;

(j)  Direction or stop signs placed or authorized by the Minister of Transport;

(k)  The posters which a telephone, telegraph or electric power company places on its poles to indicate danger or to indicate the places where its offices are situated, provided that these posters are not rigid, but encircle the poles in whole or in part;

(2)  The expression “road which the Minister of Transport maintains” has the same meaning as that attributed to it by section 38 of the Roads Act (chapter V-8).

R. S. 1964, c. 135, s. 2; 1972, c. 54, s. 32; 1984, c. 47, s. 213.

1977-12-31

2. In this act:

(1)  The word “posters” or “poster” means any printing, writing, drawing, painting, lithograph or representation by any process whatsoever, placed so as to be seen by the public and used for notices, announcements, advertisements or publicity; but does not include:

(a)  Posters issued by public authority;

(b)  Notices which the law requires to be posted up;

(c)  Posters which an owner, lessee or occupant of a building places thereon to announce the profession, art, trade, industry or other occupation carried on therein by him, the sale of farm products, the sale of the products which he manufactures or any other products sold on the premises, as well as the sale or lease of the immoveable of which such building is a dependency;

(d)  Posters which an owner or lessee of a restaurant, hotel, boarding-house or bungalows (chalets), situated along a road which the Minister of Transport maintains but at a distance therefrom, places near the said road for the purpose of indicating the place where his establishment is situated. In such case, the owner or lessee may have only one poster put up near the road on his property and such poster shall not be more than three feet in length nor more than two feet in width;

(e)  Election posters of a candidate at a Dominion, provincial, municipal or school election;

(f)  Posters on the occasion of a religious or patriotic demonstration;

(g)  Posters to announce an agricultural exhibition;

(h)  Inscriptions in cemeteries;

(i)  Inscriptions of a historical nature authorized by the Minister of Transport;

(j)  Direction or stop signs placed or authorized by the Minister of Transport;

(k)  The posters which a telephone, telegraph or electric power company places on its poles to indicate danger or to indicate the places where its offices are situated, provided that these posters are not rigid, but encircle the poles in whole or in part;

(2)  The expression “road which the Minister of Transport maintains” has the same meaning as that attributed to it by section 38 of the Roads Act (chapter V-8).

R. S. 1964, c. 135, s. 2; 1972, c. 54, s. 32.