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Park Act

Class C Parks Regulations

B.C. Reg. 227/67

NOTE: Links below go to regulation content as it was prior to the changes made on the effective date. (PIT covers changes made from September 19, 2009 to "current to" date of the regulation.)
SECTIONEFFECTIVE DATE
Section 1 March 30, 2022
Section 2 March 30, 2022
Section 3 March 30, 2022
Section 4 March 30, 2022
Section 7 March 30, 2022
Section 8 March 30, 2022
Section 11 March 30, 2022
Section 13 March 30, 2022
Section 25 March 30, 2022
Section 38 March 30, 2022
Section 39 March 30, 2022
Section 40 March 30, 2022
Section 45 March 30, 2022
Section 46 March 30, 2022

 Section 1 definitions of "deputy minister" and "minister" BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

"deputy minister" means the Deputy Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection as authorized by the Ministry of Lands, Parks and Housing Act;

"minister" means the Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection;

 Section 2 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Appointment of board

2   The minister shall, on appointing the park board, designate one member to be chairman of the board, and the board may appoint such other officers from the membership as they deem necessary and shall notify the minister of the names and addresses of all such officers.

 Section 3 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Meetings of park boards

3   Every park board shall meet for the transaction of its business once each calendar year at a time and place determined by the board, and at other times shall meet at the call of the chairman as the business of the board may require.

 Section 4 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Request for meeting

4   The chairman shall call a meeting of the board within 14 days of the receipt of a request in writing setting out the purpose of such a meeting made by 2 members of the board. Seven days notice of the meeting shall be given by the chairman, provided such notice may be waived by all members of the board present at such a meeting.

 Section 7 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Chairman to preside

7   The chairman shall preside at meetings of the board, and shall exercise one vote in the decisions of the board.

 Section 8 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

When no chairman present

8   In the absence of the chairman, the members present at any duly called meeting of the board shall elect a chairman, who shall preside at that meeting.

 Section 11 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Signing officers

11   The chairman and secretary of each park board shall comprise the signing officers of that board and are authorized to execute, jointly, such contracts, agreements and documents, and to receive and disburse such funds, on behalf of the board as the board may determine.

 Section 13 (1) and (3) BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

(1) Every member of a park board who for any reason desires to resign from that board shall submit to the minister his resignation in writing.

(3) The minister may, at his discretion, discharge or dismiss any member or any officer of a park board where he deems it to be in the public interest.

 Section 25 BEFORE repealed by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Provisions of Highway Act to apply

25   Without restricting the provisions of any other Act respecting private roads, the provisions of Part 2 of the Highway Act shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to roads constructed or maintained as park roads by any park board, or by the Parks Branch, or by any holder of a park use permit, within any park and

(a) wherever therein reference is made to an official of the Ministry of Transportation and Highways, the reference shall be deemed to be to an official of the Parks Branch, and

(b) wherever therein reference is made to the Minister of Transportation and Highways, the reference shall be deemed to be the Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection.

[am. B.C. Reg. 109/2002, s. 1.]

 Section 38 BEFORE re-enacted by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Hunting

38   (1) No person shall hunt or carry any loaded firearm within any park, except Silver Star Park, provided this restriction shall not apply to any member of the armed services or to any police officer, conservation officer or park officer while engaged in the performance of his duty.

(2) No person in Silver Star Park shall carry or have in his possession any loaded firearm except a centre fire rifle.

(3) No person in Silver Star Park shall have in his possession any loaded firearm except during that portion of the hunting season commencing on the first day of October and ending on the final day of the deer hunting season applicable in the surrounding Management Unit, as defined in the Hunting Regulations.

(4) No person shall hunt any game bird or any game animal, except deer, in Silver Star Park.

(5) No person, except a member of the armed forces, a police officer, a conservation officer or a park officer, in the performance of his duty, shall hunt or carry any loaded firearm within or upon that portion of Silver Star Park described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of Lot 2244, Osoyoos Division of Yale District, being a point on the south boundary of Silver Star Park; thence north 60 chains; thence east 20 chains; thence north 20 chains; thence east 20 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence east 20 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence east 60 chains; thence north 40 chains; thence east 180 chains; thence south 160 chains; thence west 260 chains; thence south 20  chains; thence west 20 chains; thence south 20 chains; thence west 20 chains, more or less, to the point of commencement, containing 4 000 acres, more or less.

[am. B.C. Reg. 148/68.]

 Section 39 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Explosives

39   No person, other than an employee of a bona fide construction or mining company or of a recognized government agency, while engaged in the performance of his duty, shall have in his possession within any park any explosive or explosive substance without a park use permit so to do.

 Section 40 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Animals

40   No person shall cause or permit any animal owned by him, or in his custody or under his control, to roam at large in any park, except as authorized by a park use permit.

 Section 45 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Inspections

45   The deputy minister or any duly authorized park officer acting under his instructions may enter into any park and at all reasonable times may enter into any building, structure or improvement within any park, for the purpose of examining or inspecting such parks or improvements.

 Section 46 BEFORE amended by BC Reg 81/2022, effective March 30, 2022.

Reports and statements

46   The deputy minister may require any park board to submit to the minister such reports or statements, including financial statements, pertaining to the business and functions of that board or the administration, development, maintenance and use of any park under the jurisdiction of that board as may, in the opinion of the deputy minister, be necessary in the public interest.