Random Wanderings and Wonderings
Section 77 of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act declares:
Every person travelling on a highway with a sleigh or sled drawn by a horse or other animal shall have at least two bells attached to the harness or to the sleigh or sled in such a manner as to give ample warning sound.
They must provide ample warning because, of course, horse-drawn sleighs are the real menace on our roads.
Section 173 of the Ontario Highway Traffic Act declares:
No person shall race or drive furiously any horse or other animal on a highway.
Good to see that the province is finally clamping down on street racing.
Section 349-23 (PDF) of the Toronto Municipal Code declares that:
No person keeping pigeons shall permit the pigeons to stray, perch, roost or rest upon lands, premises or buildings of any person or upon any public place in the City, except on the property of the person keeping the pigeons.
So all we have to do is figure out who owns all the pigeons in the city and ask him to confine his birds to his own property? We should be rid of them any day now.
Section 480-3(A) (PDF) of the Toronto Municipal Code states that:
No person shall sell personal property at a garage sale other than personal property that has actually been used on, about, or in connection with the residential premises or, in the case of a joint garage sale held with a neighbour, the residential premises of the neighbour.
People sometimes accuse local politicians of poking their noses a little too far into residents’ private business, and with some justification. A by-law that declares residents must have used everything that they’re selling in a garage sale would seem to confirm the stereotype. This one rule alone eliminates most Saturday morning front yard staples: candles, exercise machines, and gaudy tchotchkes.