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Highway Safety Code

The Highway Safety Code is a law of Québec. It governs, among other things, the use of vehicles, pedestrian traffic and road safety in Québec.

The SAAQ is responsible for enforcing the Highway Safety Code

The Highway Safety Code establishes the rules regarding:

• road safety
• the vehicle registration
• driver's licences
• obligations specific to dealers and recyclers
• transportation of goods
• the transportation of passengers

The Code, Ministerial Orders, regulations and tariff

To consult the Code

• Highway Safety Code (CQLR, c. C-24.2)

To consult the attendant regulations

• Cargo Securement Standards Regulation (C24.2, r. 30)
• Protective Helmets Regulation (C24.2, r. 6)
• Regulation concerning the exchange of driver's licences between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Gouvernement de la République française (C24.2, r. 10)
• Regulation designating level crossings where drivers of certain road vehicles are exempt from the obligation to stop their vehicle (C24.2, r. 33)
• Regulation giving effect to an agreement on driver's licence exchange between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium (C24.2, r. 23)
• Regulation giving effect to the Reciprocal Agreement on driver's licence exchange between the Government of Québec and the Government of the Swiss Confederation (C24.2, r. 15)
• Regulation giving effect to the Reciprocal Agreement on Driver’s Licence Recognition between the gouvernement du Québec and the Republic of Austria
• Regulation respecting a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of National Defence (Canada) and Le ministère des Transports du Québec concerning Drivers' Licences and Certain Criminal Traffic Offences (C24.2, r. 21)
• Regulation respecting a Reciprocal Agreement between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Governement of the State of Maine concerning drivers' licenses and traffic offenses (C24.2, r. 20)
• Regulation respecting a Reciprocal Agreement between the Province of Ontario and Québec concerning Drivers' Licences and Traffic Offences (C24.2, r. 22)
• Regulation respecting a Reciprocal Agreement in the form of an exchange of letters between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Government of Japan concerning the exchange of driver's licences (C24.2, r. 17)
• Regulation respecting a reciprocal agreement on driver's licence exchange between the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec and the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (C24.2, r. 18)
• Regulation respecting a reciprocal agreement on driver's licence exchange between the Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec and the National Police Agency of the Republic of Korea (C24.2, r. 14)
• Regulation respecting the health of drivers (C24.2, r. 40.1)
• Regulation respecting accident reports (C24.2, r. 40)
• Regulation respecting an agreement between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Government of the State of New York respecting the mechanical inspection of buses (C24.2, r. 19)
• Regulation respecting breath screening devices (C24.2, r. 2)
• Regulation respecting demerit points (C24.2, r. 37)
• Regulation respecting distractions while driving.
• Regulation respecting emergency vehicles and vehicles equipped with flashing or rotating amber lights (C24.2, r. 49)
• Regulation respecting exemptions from the application of Title VIII.1 of the Highway Safety Code (C24.2, r. 25)
• Regulation respecting fees exigible under the Highway Safety Code and the return of confiscated objects (C24.2, r. 27)
• Regulation respecting identification stickers for parking spaces reserved for handicapped persons (C24.2, r. 52)
• Regulation respecting licences (C24.2, r. 34)
• Regulation respecting low-speed vehicles (C-24.2, s. 214.0.2)
• Regulation respecting reciprocal commercial vehicle registration agreements between the Gouvernement du Québec and the Canadian provinces and territories, and certain American States (C24.2, r. 24)
• Regulation respecting road signs (C24.2, r. 41)
• Regulation respecting road vehicle recyclers (C24.2, r 40.01)
• Regulation respecting road vehicle registration (C24.2, r. 29)
• Regulation respecting road vehicles adapted for the transportation of handicapped persons (C24.2, r. 51)
• Regulation respecting safety standards for road vehicles (C24.2, r. 32)
• Regulation respecting special permits (C24.2, r. 35)
• Regulation respecting the conditions and procedures for the use of photo radar devices and red light camera systems (C24.2, r. 9)
• Regulation respecting the hours of driving and rest of heavy vehicle drivers (C24.2, r. 28)
• Regulation respecting the Reciprocal Agreement between the State of New York and Québec concerning Drivers' Licences and Traffic Offenses (C24.2, r. 16)
• Regulation respecting the use of non-skid devices on the tires of certain road vehicles (C24.2, r. 44)
• Regulation respecting the use of tires specifically designed for winter driving (C24.2, r. 45)
• Regulation respecting towing and impounding charges for seized road vehicles (C24.2, r. 26)
• Special Road Train Operating Permits Regulation (C24.2, r. 36)
• Transportation of Dangerous Substances Regulation (C24.2, r. 43)
• Vehicle Load and Size Limits Regulation (C24.2, r. 31)
• Regulation respecting the visibility and traffic of farm machines wider than 2.6 metres (C24.2, r. 52.1)

To consult the Ministerial Orders

• Ministerial Order concerning use on public highways of flooded road vehicles (C-24.2, s. 633.1)
• Ministerial Order concerning access to public roads for low-speed vehicles (C -24.2, r. 0.2.1)
• Ministerial Order concerning heavy vehicles whose speed limiter must be activated and set at a maximum speed of 105 km/h (C24.2, r. 50)
• Ministerial Order concerning the approval of photo radar devices and red light camera systems (C24.2, r. 5.1)
• Ministerial Order concerning the approval of weigh scales (C24.2, r. 4)
• Ministerial Order concerning the pilot project in connection with the reprogramming of air bag electronic control modules (C24.2, r. 38)
• Ministerial Order concerning the pilot project on recycling undeployed frontal air bag modules (C24.2, r. 39)
• Ministerial Order concerning the places where fixed photo radar devices may be used (C24.2, r. 11)
• Ministerial Order concerning the places where mobile photo radar devices may be used (C24.2, r. 12)
• Ministerial Order concerning the places where red light camera systems may be used (C24.2, r. 13)
• Ministerial Order concerning the use of right-hand drive road vehicles on public highways (C24.2, r. 1)
• Ministerial Order concerning the use of three-wheeled motorcycles (C24.2, r. 46)
• Order of the Minister of Public Security concerning the approval of screening devices for the purposes of section 202.3 of the Highway Safety Code (C24.2, r. 3)

To consult the tariff

• Tariff for the purposes of section 194 of the Highway Safety Code (C24.2, r. 42)

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Last update: July  5, 2023