Ontario Bill 129

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Bill 129 is a Private Members Bill in the Province of Ontario, in Canada, presented by John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre, aimed at amending the Highway Traffic Act to make it an offence for any person to use a skateboard, a scooter, in-line skates or roller skates on a highway without wearing a helmet. Parents and guardians of a person under the age of 16 years are also guilty of an offence if they authorize or knowingly permit the person to contravene this restriction. There is an exemption for a person who does not wear a helmet because to do so would interfere with his or her religious beliefs or practices.

A police officer may require a person to provide identification if the police officer finds the person contravening the restriction.

The authority to make regulations to exempt persons from the requirement to wear helmets is repealed.

The Bill also amends the Highway Traffic Act to extend the prohibition against towing a person to include in-line skates and prohibits the person riding a bicycle, scooter, skateboard, toboggan, sled or toy vehicle or wearing roller skates, in-line skates or skis from attaching themselves to a vehicle or streetcar.

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Transwiki:Ontario Bill 129 - the text of the Bill.