Public Notice

The rules of procedure and the fees and costs related to applications for Private Bills are set out in the Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly. Copies of the Standing Orders, and the guide “Procedures for Applying for Private Legislation”, may be obtained from the Legislative Assembly’s Internet site at http://www.ontla.on.ca or from:

Committees Branch
Room 1405, Whitney Block, Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A2

Telephone: 416/325-3500 (Collect calls will be accepted.)

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

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 in respect of the matters set out below.

  1. To pass by-laws to separately license, regulate and govern subclasses of owners and drivers of taxicabs used for hire in the City, including the power,
    1. to define subclasses of owners and rivers of taxicabs used for hire,
    2. 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 Council deems expedient,
    3. to establish criteria for the issuance of new licenses, including entitlement to one license only, the requirement that the licensee be the sole driver of the taxicab, consideration of the length of time the applicant has been a taxicab driver in the City, the requirement that the applicant has not previously held a taxicab owner’s license, and the power to establish the method of issuance of new licenses by means of a lottery system.
  2. To provide that the by-law or any provision of the by-law passed under section 1 does not apply to any defined area or areas of the City.
  3. The powers in this Act may be exercised to amend the existing taxicab licensing by-laws of the former municipalities. These by-laws are deemed to be by-laws of City Council by section 5(4) of the City of Ottawa Act, 1999 in respect of the part of the area of the City of Ottawa to which it applies.
  4. To pass by-laws prescribing vehicle standards that are different from the standards in Ontario Regulation 629 made under the Highway Traffic Act for the subclass of accessible taxicabs. The standards shall be consistent with vehicle designs that look and act like general purpose taxicabs, including but not limited to rear loading vans, while being capable of transporting physically disabled persons who are unable, because of a mobility impairment, to use a regular taxicab. Where the Council has prescribed standards, the accessible taxicabs may operate within the City despite Ontario Regulation 629 made under the Highway Traffic Act.

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 18th day of September, 2001.

J. Jerald Bellomo, City Solicitor
City of Ottawa

City Hall, Legal Services
110 Laurier Avenue West, Third Floor,
Ottawa, ON K1P 1J1
Solicitor for the Applicant
(3718) 40 to 43