Land Extermination Notification Requirements
71. (1) Residential area signs shall be posted immediately before the land extermination begins. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (2) Except as provided in subsections (3) and (6), public area signs shall be posted immediately before the land extermination begins. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), public area signs shall be posted at least twenty-four hours before the land extermination begins on any part of an application area that includes or is included in, (a) an outdoor area associated with a daycare facility, nursery school, primary school, high school, private school or post-secondary institution; (b) a lot or parcel of land on which there are more than four dwelling units; (c) a park; (d) a cemetery; (e) a golf course; or (f) a campground. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (4) If public notice is given by one or more means set out in paragraphs 1 to 4 of subsection (6), public area signs may be posted immediately before the land extermination begins, and not as required by subsection (3), on any part of an application area that includes or is included in, (a) a park in a rural area, as rural area is described in subsection 68 (3); (b) a cemetery; (c) a golf course in a rural area, as rural area is described in subsection 68 (3); or (d) a golf course to which access by unauthorized persons is controlled by means of gates, fences or other barriers. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (5) If public notice is given by one or more means set out in paragraphs 1 to 4 of subsection (6) and by one or more means set out in paragraph 5 of subsection (6), public area signs may be posted immediately before the land extermination begins, and not as required by subsection (3), on any part of a land extermination that includes or is included in a campground. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (6) Public notice of a land extermination described in subsections (4) and (5) may be given by the following means: 1. The posting of public area signs, at least twenty-four hours before the land extermination begins, at all ordinary points of access to the application area or larger area, as required by section 66. 2. The posting of public area signs, at least twenty-four hours before the land extermination begins, at all locations where visitors normally come into contact with the owner or operator of the application area or that person’s employees. 3. The distribution of written notices, during the period twenty-four hours before the land extermination begins, at all locations where visitors normally come into contact with the owner or operator of the application area or that person’s employees. 4. Such other means that, in the Director’s opinion, is equivalent to the means set out in paragraph 1, 2 or 3 in that it provides adequate notice to all persons who may be affected by the extermination, and that is approved in writing by the Director. 5. Posting signs, distributing notices, making public announcements or other such means, during the period twenty-four hours before the land extermination begins, to attempt to give notice of the extermination to persons who entered the campground before that period. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1. (7) The Director may abridge the time period for advance notice set out in subsections (3) and (6) if he or she is satisfied that a land extermination is urgently required and that to do so would not deprive any person who may be affected by the extermination of adequate notice. O. Reg. 500/92, s. 1.