Public Notice

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Applicants should note that consideration of applications for Private Bills that are received after the first day of September in any calendar year may be postponed until the first regular Session in the next following calendar year.

Claude L. Desrosiers,
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
(8699) T.F.N.

Applications to Provincial Parliament

The City Of Ottawa

Notice Is Hereby Given that, on behalf of the City of Ottawa (“City”), application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for an Act to re-enact the authority obtained by the former Cities of Ottawa, Nepean and Gloucester in respect of the matters set out below.

  1. To pass by-laws respecting garbage removal and grass and weeds cutting on boulevards by requiring the owners of land at their own expense to cut the grass and weeds in accordance with the City’s prescribed standards, to remove the cuttings whenever the growth of grass or weeds exceeds 10 cm in height or more and to clear away and remove garbage or other debris from the boulevard portion of the highways abutting their land. The by-law may exempt one or more classes of owners from doing the things described and may designate areas and highways to which the standards and requirements apply and the standards and requirements may vary according to designated area or designated highway. If an owner of land fails to comply with the bylaw within a specified time, the City may do the work or arrange for the work to be done and the City may recover all expenses, including administrative fees, from the owner by action or it may collect them in like manner as municipal taxes.
  2. To pass by-laws authorizing the removal of vehicles or objects placed or abandoned on property belonging to the City, including highways, in contravention of any by-law and the costs of removal and storage are a lien on it and may be levied against the owner of the vehicle or object. The by-law does not apply to motor vehicles displaying current license plates.
  3. To enable the City to exercise greater control over the demolition or removal of buildings and structures designated under Part IV, Conservation of Buildings of Historic or Architectural Value, and Part V, Heritage Conservation Districts, of the Ontario Heritage Act in those circumstances where no replacement building or structure is planned. It will provide that City Council may refuse an application for the demolition or removal of a building or structure where it is deemed appropriate by City Council unless the owner has obtained a building permit to erect a new building on the site of the building or structure sought to be demolished or removed and the owner is subject to the requirement that construction of such new building be substantially complete within two years of the commencement of the demolition or removal of the building or structure on the designated property, and 180 days have elapsed from the date of the decision of City Council to refuse the demolition or removal of the building or structure on the designated property.
  4. Where the City is authorized to pass by-laws for licensing any business, City Council or a committee thereof, to be known as the License Committee, subject to the Statutory Powers Procedure Act, is authorized to suspend or revoke any such license or to impose conditions as a requirement of obtaining, continuing to hold or renewing a license, including special conditions.
  5. Where the City is authorized to pass by-laws for licensing any business, the City may by by-law authorize the Chief License Inspector of the City, or other municipal official named in the by-law, to suspend in situations that City Council considers emergency and extraordinary circumstances any such license for such time up to 2 weeks and subject to such conditions as the by-law may require, but before suspending provide the licensee with the reasons for the suspension either orally or in writing and an opportunity to respond thereto.
  6. To pass by-laws requiring the driver of any class of motor vehicle that is regulated under a business licensing by-law to surrender for reasonable inspection, upon demand of a municipal official or inspector, his or her driver’s license issued under the Highway Traffic Act or under the law of another jurisdiction and the permit for the vehicle issued under the Highway Traffic Act or under the law of another jurisdiction.
  7. To limit the number of licenses issued to itinerant sellers or owners and operators of refreshment vehicles or limit the number of licenses issued to any class of itinerant sellers or owners and operators of refreshment vehicles.
  8. To extend the existence of the licensing by-laws of the old municipalities that were to expire on the later of five years after the day on which it comes into force and January 1, 2006.
  9. To pass by-laws:
    1. for numbering the buildings and lots or units along private roadways and for affixing numbers to the buildings, and for charging the owner or occupant of the building, lot or unit with the expense incident to the numbering. The expense may be recovered in like manner as municipal taxes, and, if paid by the occupant, subject to any agreement between the occupant and the owner, may be deducted from the rent payable to the owner;
    2. for keeping a record of the private roadways and of the numbers of the buildings and lots or units for public inspection;
    3. for naming and renaming private roadways and for affixing the names at the corners thereof, and for charging the owner or, in the case of a condominium, the condominium corporation, with the expense incident to the naming and renaming private roadway. The expense may be recovered in like manner as municipal taxes; for delegating to may be recovered in like manner as municipal taxes; for delegating to either a committee of Council or to an appointed officer of the City identified in the by-law either by name or by position occupied, any of the Council’s powers or authority under this clause;
    4. for requiring that the owner of a private roadway or a condominium corporation enter into one or more agreements with the City on such terms and conditions as Council considers expedient, including the provision and maintenance by the owner or the condominium corporation at their sole risk and expense and to the satisfaction of the City, respecting any of the above matters; and for terminating the agreement on such terms and conditions as the City considers expedient.
  10. To pass a by-law prescribing fees, including administrative costs, for the inspection and monitoring of real property in respect of maintenance and occupancy standards prescribed by by-law of the City where an owner has failed to comply with a final order given under that by-law. The by-law may require the owner of the property to pay the fees prescribed for each inspection that reveals that one or more items in the final order have not been complied with within the time prescribed in that order. The fees and charges payable are a lien on the real property and may be collected in like manner as municipal taxes.
  11. To re-enact Section 5 of the City of Ottawa Act, 1996 to provide that a by-law passed under that Act or amended in accordance with the City of Ottawa Act, 1999 shall apply to any highway located within the municipal area of the old municipality of the Corporation of the City of Ottawa.

A copy of the draft bill is available in the office of the City Clerk, Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West, Ottawa.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to make submissions, for or against the application, to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A2.

Dated at Ottawa, this 22nd day of June, 2001.

J. Jerald Bellomo, City Solicitor
The City of Ottawa
City Hall, Legal Services
110 Laurier Avenue West, 3rd floor
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1
Solicitor for the Applicant.
(3648) 27-30