C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 519.14 Disposition versions

1999-12-13

519.14. (Repealed).

1987, c. 94, s. 70; 1998, c. 40, s. 119; 1999, c. 66, s. 16.

1999-07-01

519.14. A driver of a heavy vehicle shall drive the vehicle to a roadside inspection station and facilitate any inspection under this Code when so required by a peace officer or a sign or signal.

1987, c. 94, s. 70; 1998, c. 40, s. 119.

Not in force

Not in force

519.14. Every peace officer who, in the performance of the duties conferred on him by this Code, has reasonable cause to believe that a person is driving a road vehicle while his faculties are impaired by alcohol, fatigue, illness, drugs or medication and that such condition makes him temporarily incapable of operating his vehicle safely may take his driver’s licence from him for a period not exceeding 24 hours, take possession of his vehicle and drive it to an appropriate place. The driver must comply.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the prohibition to drive ceases to apply and the peace officer shall immediately return the driver’s licence and, as the case may be, the vehicle to the driver in the following cases:

(1)  at the request of the driver, the peace officer verifies the concentration of alcohol in the driver’s blood by means of a sample of breath and finds it to be less than 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood;

(2)  the driver furnishes to the peace officer a medical certificate signed after the prohibition to drive which certifies at the time it is signed, that the concentration of alcohol in his blood is less than 80 mg in 100 ml of blood or that his faculties are not impaired by fatigue, illness, medication or a drug other than alcohol;

(3)  the driver proves to the peace officer that his faculties are not impaired by fatigue, illness, medication or a drug other than alcohol.

The peace officer is required to comply with a request made by a driver pursuant to subparagraph 1 of the second paragraph.

1987, c. 94, s. 70.