by Dr. Radut

Notice & Order #1

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Ticket WriterSometimes you run across a vehicle in your patrols that has such serious defects that it should never have left the driveway. A Notice & Order #1 is the tool used by the police to remove the vehicle from the highway and keep it removed until it has been repaired and passed inspection.

Examples of serious defects that I ran across include:

  • A pickup truck being driven at night with only one light working, the high beam on the passenger side.
  • A car whose frame was so rotten that you could see the sag in the body when you looked at it from the side.
  • A pickup truck with no brake fluid in half of the master cylinder.

Authority to Remove the Vehicle from the Road

In situations like these Division 25.30 MVAR gives an officer the authority to do three things:

  • Order the vehicle to be removed from the road immediately, be taken to an inspection facility for examination and not to be driven on the road again until the vehicle has passed inspection.
  • Order the driver to surrender the vehicle licence document and licence plates to the officer.
  • Notify the officer who issued the order that inspection has been passed before the vehicle is driven on the road again.

If it is necessary to use a tow truck to remove the vehicle the cost of the tow is the responsibility of the vehicle's owner.

ICBC Vehicle Licence Record

The Notice & Order #1 is forwarded to ICBC and the licence record is marked to indicate when the order was issued. That mark remains until the vehicle has passed inspection and the inspection facility forwards a copy of the passed inspection report to ICBC.

In addition, ICBC will refuse to carry out any licence transactions for the vehicle until the pass is received.

Enforcement

If you continue to drive the vehicle before it passes inspection and are stopped by police, the routine computer checks of you and your vehicle will reveal the outstanding Notice & Order #1.

A tow truck will be called and a $598 violation ticket will be issued.

It's Not Worth Fixing

If the vehicle is not worth fixing, notify ICBC and cancel the insurance. You will not have to present it at a facility for inspection prior to disposal.

If you sell the vehicle to someone other than a scrap dealer you must advise them of the outstanding Notice & Order #1 because the order follows the vehicle. It will now be up to them to deal with it.

Withdrawing the Order

The issuing officer does have the authority to cancel a Notice & Order #1. If you think that it has been issued in error you will have to convince them to withdraw it.

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Published by Anonymous (not verified) - 2023/12/04 - 13:19 | Permalink

I agree that vehicle inspections should be in concert with enforcement. Notice and Order are only going to work if there is an initiative to seek out manky vehicles. Sometimes it is not so obvious, Rat rods and lifted trucks; others are all too obvious. The former vehicle's operator can most likely afford the structural mistake, and or the inspection, whereas the latter may be all the person has to be mobile.

I have seen some pretty amazing rigs in the interior, gobs of dents, Duct tape, Red Tape, plexiglas, body perforations, bald tyres... Some apply to both the former and latter.

But what is remarkable though is usually a spring - summer - fall thing that is obvious and excessive is Motorcycle noise.

Flauntingly they go merrily along with straight pipes or little mufflers that are not legal. That is painfully obvious.

Is the Notice and Order gang deaf to this? Without getting general, I find the lack of enforcement a careless attitude.

A lot of these 2 wheelers sound like they are "...Not Worth Fixing". Others are right off the showroom floor with decibel emissions higher than (I think the upper allowable is 83 dB is it not?), all shiny and bright as the spanky leathers and D cup size skid lid on the newbie wannabe.

`Is it a Ministry of Tourism directive to leave the miscreants to spend loudly in the towns they terrorize, upsetting the peaceful populations around and within the towns?

Gads it makes me angry; I say enforce, park it, tow it, inspect it, and if pulled over again then forfeit licence, cycle and leathers. They can keep the D cup.

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