I am curious if anybody has the definition of OHV in the other legislations or transport Canada
Section 117
TRAFFIC SAFETY ACT
(a) “off-highway vehicle” means any motorized mode of
transportation built for cross-country travel on land, water,
snow, ice or marsh or swamp land or on other natural
terrain and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, includes, when specifically designed for such
travel,
(i) 4-wheel drive vehicles,
(ii) low pressure tire vehicles,
(iii) motor cycles and related 2-wheel vehicles,
(iv) amphibious machines,
(v) all terrain vehicles,
(vi) miniature motor vehicles,
(vii) snow vehicles,
(viii) minibikes, and
(ix) any other means of transportation that is propelled by
any power other than muscular power or wind,
but does not include
(x) motor boats, or
(xi) any other vehicle exempted from being an offhighway
vehicle by regulation;
Although this reads like 4x4's should be included in an OHV designation, I know from the experience of a few friends running on a trail up by Cardinal that was open to OHV, that the government absolutely DOES NOT view trucks the same as quads. They were ticketrd, they went to court, and they lost. However, they did not lawyer up which was a mistake.
Part of the problem is that each county or PLUZ can write a different set of rules. Moreover none needs to provide clear conveyance of those rules, it is simply your obligation to know them, and know what they mean...textbook example of the idiocy of government bureaucracy, and the burden it places on the populace.
So when its all said and done it is hard to predict what in fact will be happening in other areas. One thing is for sure though, 4x4's have no organizational lobby groups with any stoke. The quaders are the only ones with meaningful input as they are reasonably well organized in different areas of the province.
