Acts and Regulations

M-17 - Motor Vehicle Act

Section 241
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Tires, tracks
241(1)Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least twenty-five millimetres thick above the edge of the flange or rim on the entire periphery.
241(2)No person shall operate or move on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer having any metal tire in contact with the roadway.
241(3)No person shall operate a motor vehicle equipped with a tire having on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike, or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber that projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire except as follows:
(a) it is permissible to use farm machinery with tires having protuberances which will not damage the highway,
(b) it is permissible to use tire chains,
(c) it is permissible to use studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar at any time except during the period commencing on the first day of May and ending on the fifteenth day of October in every year, and
(d) notwithstanding paragraph (c) the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure may in cases of exceptional weather conditions, by order, enlarge the time for use of studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar.
241(4)The following may, in their discretion, issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a highway of farm tractors, of other farm machinery or of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the periphery of the movable tracks, where such operation would otherwise be prohibited under this Act:
(a) local authorities, within their jurisdictions;
(b) the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under its administration and control;
(c) a project company with the written consent of the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under the administration and control of a project company; and
(d) the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, with respect to all other highways.
1955, c.13, s.214; 1965, c.29, s.14; 1972, c.48, s.45; 1977, c.M-11.1, s.17; 1978, c.D-11.2, s.26; 1978, c.39, s.12; 1986, c.56, s.10; 1997, c.62, s.13; 2006, c.13, s.22; 2010, c.31, s.85
Miscellaneous equipment
241(1)Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least twenty-five millimetres thick above the edge of the flange or rim on the entire periphery.
241(2)No person shall operate or move on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer having any metal tire in contact with the roadway.
241(3)No person shall operate a motor vehicle equipped with a tire having on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike, or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber that projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire except as follows:
(a) it is permissible to use farm machinery with tires having protuberances which will not damage the highway,
(b) it is permissible to use tire chains,
(c) it is permissible to use studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar at any time except during the period commencing on the first day of May and ending on the fifteenth day of October in every year, and
(d) notwithstanding paragraph (c) the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure may in cases of exceptional weather conditions, by order, enlarge the time for use of studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar.
241(4)The following may, in their discretion, issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a highway of farm tractors, of other farm machinery or of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the periphery of the movable tracks, where such operation would otherwise be prohibited under this Act:
(a) local authorities, within their jurisdictions;
(b) the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under its administration and control;
(c) a project company with the written consent of the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under the administration and control of a project company; and
(d) the Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure, with respect to all other highways.
1955, c.13, s.214; 1965, c.29, s.14; 1972, c.48, s.45; 1977, c.M-11.1, s.17; 1978, c.D-11.2, s.26; 1978, c.39, s.12; 1986, c.56, s.10; 1997, c.62, s.13; 2006, c.13, s.22; 2010, c.31, s.85
Miscellaneous equipment
241(1)Every solid rubber tire on a vehicle shall have rubber on its entire traction surface at least twenty-five millimetres thick above the edge of the flange or rim on the entire periphery.
241(2)No person shall operate or move on any highway any motor vehicle, trailer, or semi-trailer having any metal tire in contact with the roadway.
241(3)No person shall operate a motor vehicle equipped with a tire having on its periphery any block, stud, flange, cleat or spike, or any other protuberance of any material other than rubber that projects beyond the tread of the traction surface of the tire except as follows:
(a) it is permissible to use farm machinery with tires having protuberances which will not damage the highway,
(b) it is permissible to use tire chains,
(c) it is permissible to use studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar at any time except during the period commencing on the first day of May and ending on the fifteenth day of October in every year, and
(d) notwithstanding paragraph (c) the Minister of Transportation may in cases of exceptional weather conditions, by order, enlarge the time for use of studded snow tires of a type approved by the Registrar.
241(4)The following may, in their discretion, issue special permits authorizing the operation upon a highway of farm tractors, of other farm machinery or of traction engines or tractors having movable tracks with transverse corrugations upon the periphery of the movable tracks, where such operation would otherwise be prohibited under this Act:
(a) local authorities, within their jurisdictions;
(b) the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under its administration and control;
(c) a project company with the written consent of the New Brunswick Highway Corporation, with respect to highways under the administration and control of a project company; and
(d) the Minister of Transportation, with respect to all other highways.
1955, c.13, s.214; 1965, c.29, s.14; 1972, c.48, s.45; 1977, c.M-11.1, s.17; 1978, c.D-11.2, s.26; 1978, c.39, s.12; 1986, c.56, s.10; 1997, c.62, s.13; 2006, c.13, s.22