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| Benny |
Go down to the Provincial Courts building and pick up a guide of the HTA, its worth the 10 or 15 bucks!
Most of your questions can be answered in there, such as tint and ride hite and exhaust and junk.
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| redbaron303 |
I did some reading this moring... http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/acts/H08.cfm (HTA)
Part of the HTA... MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! Police can nearly ticket you for anything from lights to ICE to body kits.
Front lights have to be mounted 600mm off the ground (measured tothe center of the light) and 500mm for taillights... min. standards. Front lights can't have any other colour other than white light emitted and high beams are illegal to use on roadways where you see another car...
Bumpers have to be built to factory specs... meaning certain body kits may not cut it...
Window stickers aren't illegal until they impair your field of vision
Exhaust.. basically no mods to that by the sounds of it... but nothing that increases "flow" = diameter of muffler/tip; nothing that increases noise.... HAHAHAHAHA I can't get a ticket for the rx7, my exhaust is in good standing factory condition :)
The list goes on, but a lot of it was hard to follow from the net, millions of subsections and sections on section of sections. Is there like a laymans terms translation of that?
Are all police and RCMP to memorize that along with all those other codes and regulations you guys have to follow?! I could never do it! |
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| BlueTurboEGG |
| Probably memorizing all this stuff is half the reason why so few make it to final grad... |
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| albertarc |
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Originally posted by redbaron303@Dec 19 2002, 12:42 PM
Are all police and RCMP to memorize that along with all those other codes and regulations you guys have to follow?! I could never do it!
There are certain things you MUST remember such as requirements for arrest, warrant procedures etc. I try to remember the more common traffic regulations but for the less common ... that's why the provincial gov't provides us with "Specified Penalty Listings". They give the Reader's Digest version of wordings for charges & the applicable fine. One thing I've found is most of the violations are glaring infractions. They tend to stand out like the nose on your face & even if you can't recite verbatim the wording of the charge - you know there's one somewhere for what you saw. Then it's just a case of finding it.
I'm sure some of us out there think we're perfect but in actuality ... we're just human (I wonder if I could sell that to Hallmark??).
Jimbo :wacko: |
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| redbaron303 |
I wonder what your hallmark would be listed under?!
You make a good point, now is that why when I've seen people pulled over the officer sits in the car for a few minutes?! Does he first check license and reg to make sure they're valid and that the car isn't stolen, then try to find the right charge in their readers digest of "what to charge people with?!"
I was told last night at an alcohol check stop, to change the colour of my sidemarker lights, they are blue in colour and aren't noticable from the front or the back unless the person is standing at an angle. My interpretation of the HTA says that as long as the side markers aren't seen directly from the front, police shouldn't care what colour they are? Am I wrong? Is there a way I could get around this, like blocking the front part of the light so it only is visible from the side, or will that result in more traffic infractions? |
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