Consolidated Statutes and Regulations
Consolidated Statutes
Consolidated Regulations
Annual Statutes and Regulations
Annual Statutes
Annual Regulations
Additional information
Québec Official Publisher
What’s new?
Information note
Policy of the Minister of Justice
Laws: Amendments
Laws: Provisions not in force
Laws: Provisions brought into force
Annual Statutes: PDF versions since 1996
Regulations: Amendments
Annual Regulations: PDF versions since 1996
Court Decisions
C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code
Section 257.1
Disposition versions
257.1. Every heavy vehicle with a dump body whose height, when the dump body is raised, exceeds the maximum height prescribed by regulation must be equipped with a flashing red warning light and an audible warning device which must activate automatically when the dump body is not completely lowered.
The Government may prescribe, by regulation, other standards applicable to the warning light and audible warning device required under the first paragraph.
The application of this section with respect to a combination of road vehicles having a total combined gross vehicle weight rating of 4,500 kg or more and consisting of a tractor, equipped with pneumatic tires or rubber caterpillar tracks, designed to draw farm equipment and that draws a trailer with a dump body, is hereby suspended. (See M.O. 2021-15, 2021-06-16, (2021) 153 G.O. 2, 2235)
257.1. Every heavy vehicle with a dump body whose height, when the dump body is raised, exceeds the maximum height prescribed by regulation must be equipped with a flashing red warning light and an audible warning device which must activate automatically when the dump body is not completely lowered.
The Government may prescribe, by regulation, other standards applicable to the warning light and audible warning device required under the first paragraph.
