[37] Bill 24 Original (PDF)
Bill Pr24 2001
An Act respecting
the City of Ottawa
Preamble
The council of the City of Ottawa ("City Council") has applied for special
legislation in respect of the matters set out in this Act.
It is appropriate to grant the application.
Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:
By-laws re taxicabs
1. (1) City Council may pass
by-laws to separately license, regulate and govern subclasses of owners and
drivers of taxicabs used for hire in the City and Part XVII.1 and paragraph 1
of section 232 of the Municipal Act apply to each subclass.
Powers re: licences
(2) The power to separately license, regulate and govern
subclasses of owners and drivers of taxicabs used for hire includes,
(a) the power to define subclasses of owners and drivers of taxicabs used
for hire;
(b) the power to permit licensed owners and drivers of a subclass of
taxicabs used for hire to provide a taxicab service that falls within a
separate subclass on such terms and conditions as City Council considers
expedient;
(c) the power to establish criteria for the issuance of new licences,
which may include,
(i) entitlement to one licence only,
(ii) the requirement that the licensee be the sole driver of the
taxicab,
(iii) consideration of the length of time the applicant has been a taxicab
driver in the City,
(iv) the requirement that the applicant has not previously held a taxicab
owner's licence; and
(d) the power to establish the method of issuing new licences by means of
a lottery system.
Exemption
(3) A by-law passed under subsection (1) may provide that the
by-law or any provision of the by-law does not apply to one or more defined
areas of the City.
Application to earlier by-laws
2. The powers in this Act may be exercised to
amend a by-law that is deemed to be a by-law of City Council by subsection 5
(4) of the City of Ottawa Act, 1999 in respect of the part of the
area of the city to which it applies.
Commencement
3. This Act comes into force on the day it receives
Royal Assent.
Short title
4. The short title of this Act is the City of
Ottawa Act (Taxicabs), 2001.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
The purpose of the Bill is set out in the Preamble.
