C-24.2 - Highway Safety Code

Section 620.1 Disposition versions

Not in force

In force: 2024-07-01

620.1. The Government may, by regulation,

(1)  determine the provisions of this Code or its regulations compliance with which may be monitored by means of a detection system;

(2)  determine the criteria according to which a public highway or part of a public highway may be designated by the Minister;

(3)  prescribe that a detection system may be used on a vehicle or other equipment it designates and set out the cases in which and the conditions on which the system may be used, and, for those purposes, depart from the provisions of section 294.1, of the second paragraph of section 312.1 and of sections 519.81, 602.7 and 602.8 of this Code if it considers, on the Minister’s recommendation, that their application is inconsistent with the use of a detection system as provided for by the regulation;

(4)  prescribe the elements affixed to or visible in one or more of the photographs that are proof, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, of their accuracy;

(5)  prescribe other rules of proof applicable in respect of an offence or a failure to comply observed by means of a detection system;

(6)  prescribe the failures to comply with a provision of this Code or its regulations observed by means of a detection system that give rise to the imposition of a monetary administrative penalty;

(7)  entrust a municipal contestation body with the hearing of contestations of monetary administrative penalties where a notice of claim was notified by the Société;

(8)  provide for any rule of procedure applicable to hearing contestations of monetary administrative penalties;

(9)  fix the amount of a monetary administrative penalty or determine the methods for calculating it, which may vary according to the seriousness of the failure or depending on whether the person in default is a natural person or a legal person;

(10)  determine the costs relating to the application of the system of monetary administrative penalties and the recovery fees;

(11)  prescribe all the terms, conditions or rules relating to the collection and recovery of the sums owing; and

(12)  determine in what cases and on what conditions the Société imposes on the debtor, as recovery measures, penalties provided for in this Code, as well as the consequences arising from non-compliance with the penalties imposed and, for those purposes, determine the applicable rules of this Code and prescribe the penalties whose violation constitutes an offence and renders the offender liable to a fine, the amount of which is set by the Government.

2024, c. 10, s. 23.