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84-98 - Slow Moving Vehicle Sign

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Current to 1 January 2024
NEW BRUNSWICK
REGULATION 84-98
under the
Motor Vehicle Act
(O.C. 84-373)
Filed May 16, 1984
Under section 231 of the Motor Vehicle Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following Regulation:
1This Regulation may be cited as the Slow Moving Vehicle Sign Regulation - Motor Vehicle Act.
2(1)The slow moving vehicle sign to be attached to a farm tractor or self-propelled implement of husbandry and every vehicle designed for operation with speeds not in excess of forty kilometres per hour or any vehicle towed by them shall be in the shape of a base-down equilateral triangle, fluorescent yellow-orange in colour with a dark red retro-reflective border and shall be of the dimensions and size as prescribed and illustrated in the following figure:
2(2)The sign referred to in subsection (1) shall be bonded to a durable rigid weatherproof-base surface.
2(3)The brightness of the retro-reflective border referred to in subsection (1) shall comply with the requirements of Schedule A.
2(4)The sign referred to in subsection (1) shall be mounted,
(a) base down in a plane perpendicular to the direction of travel of the vehicle; and
(b) where practicable, on the rear of the vehicle or combination of vehicles, at the centre of mass of the vehicle or vehicles, and not less than ninety centimetres nor more than one hundred and fifty centimetres above the roadway,
and shall be clearly visible for a distance of not less than one hundred and fifty metres from the rear of the vehicle or combination of vehicles.
3The sign referred to in section 2 shall be free from dirt and obstruction and shall be so affixed as to be plainly visible at all times, and the view of the sign shall not be obscured or obstructed by any part of the vehicle or any attachment thereto or by the load carried.
4The dimensions of a slow moving vehicle sign may be greater than the dimensions prescribed and illustrated in section 2 so long as each dimension is increased and, when increased, has the same relation to the other dimensions of the sign as the dimensions prescribed and illustrated have to each other.
5A slow moving vehicle sign shall be deemed to meet the requirements of this Regulation if the sign is marked with the monogram of the Canadian Standards Association Testing Laboratories.
6Regulation 71-93 under the Motor Vehicle Act is repealed.
Schedule A
BRIGHTNESS OF RETRO-
REFLECTIVE BORDER
Angle of
Incidence
Illuminance
Angle of Divergence
Degrees
0.2 Degrees
0.5 Degrees
  0
107.63 lux
53.82 lux
15
  75.35 lux
43.06 lux
30
  53.82 lux
21.53 lux
45
  10.76 lux
  5.38 lux
N.B. This Regulation is consolidated to November 1, 1984.