Q: Do I must put on a blaze orange helmet or helmet cowl whereas driving an ATV throughout searching season? Are you able to present some examples of once I must put on an orange head protecting and once I don’t whereas driving an ATV?
A: If you’re searching underneath circumstances the place hunter orange necessities apply, then legally, you have to put on a head cowl in hunter orange.
ATV security is the primary precedence; in case you are required to put on a helmet, ensure it meets the authorized necessities for helmets. Hunter orange helmets do exist, as do covers in hunter orange. For instance, in case you are searching throughout a gun season for deer, you need to put on hunter orange. Searching consists of mendacity in look forward to, being on the path of, looking for and pursuing wildlife. Thus, when you’re on the lookout for wildlife that you’d cease and disembark the ATV to shoot at, you might be searching and should put on hunter orange. When you’re not searching whereas on an ATV, you don’t must put on hunter orange throughout searching seasons, though it’s nonetheless a finest private security observe, particularly in bush areas.
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Q: Are there any exemptions that permit hunter orange to be coated (apart from being inside a blind)? Should the blaze orange hat be seen from all sides?
A: Head coverings don’t have to be seen from all sides. Whereas ATV helmets do are available in hunter orange, an individual may put on a hunter orange hat underneath an everyday ATV helmet whereas driving the ATV so as to meet the helmet necessities and the hunter orange necessities.
ANSWER BY: David Critchlow, Provincial Enforcement Specialist, MNRF
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Initially revealed within the August 2021 difficulty of Ontario OUT of DOORS journal. Ask a CO can be an everyday function within the print version.
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