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ATVs Banned From Chatham -Kent Roads
Municipality willing to work with riders
All-terrain vehicles are still banned from municipality roads, but Chatham-Kent has left the door open to some local exemptions. Council agrees with staff recommendations Monday not to allow Atvs on roads or shoulders, given concerns about traffic safety damage to roads and ditches, cost of enforcement and insurance. The decision came in Response from requests by atv users last year to operate vehicles on municipal right-of-way. While atv operator didn’t exactly get their way, they received assurance that the law may change as the municipality works with them to find potential off-road sites. Once sites are found, atvs may be allowed on some roads so operators can go back and forth between riding sites.
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More On The Atv Parade
AMITY - The old world record: 84 four-wheel all-terrain vehicles in a single parade.
The new record: 262, set Sunday in Amity.
"People cheered when we announced that," said Terry Wilmeth, who helped organized the first-ever Amity ATV Parade.
All told, 364 people participated in the event, including motorcycles, dune buggies, antique cars, hot rods, fire engines and ATVs featuring three wheels or six wheels instead of four.
A whole unit of Air Force Reservists from Portland, all riding ATVs, joined in the fun. Also on hand were patrol vehicles from the Amity and Fairview city police departments, Yamhill, Coos and Tillamook county sheriff's offices, the Oregon State Police and the U.S. Forest Service.
They created a line that stretched 1.5 times around the Amity High School track. When the parade moved out through town, the first riders actually looped back to the school before the last riders set out.
"Well, that was partly because a train came through and interrupted things," Wilmeth said.
Some riders arrived the night before, their motor homes towing ATVs on trailers. Others just drove in for the afternoon.
They brought food and toys to donate to needy local families, which was the main point of the parade - well, besides making the Guiness Book of World Records. They also brought their Halloween costumes.
Some kids dressed as witches and turned their ATVs into brooms. An adult made his quad look like a coffin. Others rode as Wizard of Oz characters, as Dracula or Frankenstein, or as other traditional Halloween spirits.
A few even gave a nod to election day, dressing as Ronald Reagan or Richard Nixon. "No Kerry or Bush, though," Wilmeth said.
Wilmeth, who races under sponsorship from Alba Action Sports, organized the parade with the aid of Gary Tiffany of TVI Power and Sports. Amity Police Chief Dan Brown and Oregon State Police officer Ken Andrus helped as well.
Amity City Council members helped on event day, registering ATV riders and collecting food and toys. And McMinnville's Walnut City Kiwanis Club manned a food booth at the organizers' request.
Wilmeth now is putting the final touches on documentation to send to the Guinness folks. He's looking forward to doing it all over again next year, to gather more toys and food for the needy.
"Of course, we may not break the record again," he said. "I think this record will stand for a long time. But if someone does break it, we'll just have to reset the bar."
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An ATV ban happened before, and it could happen again
 May 16 In the mid-1980s, the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission held a series of public hearings on ATV safety.
The result?
A ban on three-wheeled ATVs.
Now, that same federal agency is at it again.
Saying it's concerned about ATV-related injuries and deaths, the commission announced it will hold a hearing on ATV safety on June 5 in West Virginia. And more hearings are expected.
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What will be the result?
It's too early to say. But by looking at the type of information the commission is seeking, the panel could be laying the groundwork for a complete ATV ban, a capacity limit on ATV engines (399cc has been mentioned), or a ban on the sale of adult-sized ATVs for use by children under 16 regardless of their physical size, among other possibilities.
What we know for sure is that anti-ATV groups will be out in force and testifying about what they believe are the ``horrors'' of ATVs.
This could grow into the biggest threat ATVers have faced since the ban on three-wheelers in the mid-1980s.
Your ATVA will be aggressively fighting for your rights all the way. And you will need to get involved too.
According to a notice published in the Federal Register on April 23, the commission will hold the initial public hearing in Morgantown, West Virginia. The hearing will begin at 10 a.m. at West Virginia University in the Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center.
The commission states that it is "concerned about the dramatic increase in ATV-related injuries and the continued increase in ATV-related deaths, and believes that holding a hearing will provide an opportunity for the interested public to share their concerns about ATVs and ATV safety."
The federal safety panel also asserts that there has been an increase in injuries in recent years associated with the use of ATVs with engines of 400cc or larger.
The commission wants comments on:
- Whether factors such as the rider's age, ATV engine size, and/or the large used ATV sales market (or any other factors) have influenced the increase in injuries and deaths observed by the commission staff during a recent ATV risk analysis study.
- Whether there should be a performance standard for ATVs and what requirements related to safety should be included.
- ATV use, safety issues, accidents and injuries, minimum riding and purchasing age requirements, and future government action from ATV owners and users.
- Local and state ATV use restrictions, regulations and licensing activities and their impact on ATV safety.
- Current ATV use patterns (recreational, industrial, agricultural, or other uses), and injuries and safety issues related to those specific uses.
- Current local, state and industry safety efforts and training programs.
The availability and use of safety training for ATV purchasers, and ATV consumer purchasing patterns (age of purchasers, model type and size, experienced vs. inexperienced riders, etc.). They want this information from ATV manufacturers and dealers.
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