Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-terrain Vehicles

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Type of entity

Lower-level Ontario government office (type C)

Authorized form of name

Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-terrain Vehicles

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    • Select Committee on Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-terrain Vehicles

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      Description area

      Dates of existence

      1972-1974

      History

      Select Committees are ad-hoc committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with specific terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This committee was established June 30, 1972 and was chaired by Alexander Hugh Carruthers. It made its final report on March 25, 1974. Recommendations of the committee resulted in the passage of the Motorized Snow Vehicles Act, 1974 (Bill 161).

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      Functions, occupations and activities

      The Select Committee on Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-terrain Vehicles investigated all matters relating to safety, environmental damage and licensing issues in the use of these vehicles. It was created in response to a large number of petitions and letters of complaint from property owners, users of provincial parks, municipalities and others who were concerned with the increasing use of snowmobiles and all- terrain vehicles.

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      Relationships area

      Related entity

      Ontario. Legislative Assembly (1867-)

      Identifier of related entity

      AA23

      Category of relationship

      hierarchical

      Type of relationship

      Ontario. Legislative Assembly controls Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-terrain Vehicles

      Dates of relationship

      1972-1974

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      Authority record identifier

      CA315

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      Rules and/or conventions used

      RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

      Status

      Approved

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

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          Sources

          Sage, Richard; Weir, Aileen. Legislative Assembly. Select Committees of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.

          Maintenance notes

          Archivist(s):
          Wayne Crockett