Section 24 Repealed: 2002, c. 22, s. 99.

Ontario

Highway Traffic Act

Part II: Permits

Note: On a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, Part II of the Act is amended by adding the following section: (See: 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6))

Regulations re passenger transportation vehicles

24 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations,

(a) prescribing requirements, qualifications and standards for drivers of passenger transportation vehicles;

(b) prescribing requirements, qualifications and standards for owners, lessees and operators of passenger transportation vehicles and for persons who accept, facilitate, broker requests for, advertise or offer transportation in passenger transportation vehicles;

(c) prescribing documents to be retained by persons listed in clause (b), requiring the surrender of such documents and governing their retention and surrender;

(d) prescribing documents to be carried in a passenger transportation vehicle and requiring and governing their surrender;

(e) prescribing standards and specifications for the use, operation, inspection and maintenance of passenger transportation vehicles;

(f) governing tariffs for passenger transportation vehicles and the obligations of persons listed in clause (b) respecting tariffs, including requiring notice to be given of a reduction or discontinuance of service;

(g) prescribing hours of work and periods of rest for drivers of passenger transportation vehicles;

(h) requiring the use of any equipment on or in a passenger transportation vehicle and prescribing standards and specifications of the equipment;

(i) prescribing signs and markings to be displayed on passenger transportation vehicles and governing their display;

(j) prescribing rules applicable to the carrying of passengers, including rules respecting the number of passengers that may be carried, where passengers may ride in passenger transportation vehicles and prohibiting or restricting standing in passenger transportation vehicles;

(k) prescribing requirements related to loading and carrying goods or property on or in passenger transportation vehicles or vehicles drawn by passenger transportation vehicles;

(l) restricting the drawing of trailers behind passenger transportation vehicles and prescribing standards and conditions applicable to the drawing of trailers;

(m) exempting any class of person or vehicle from any regulation made under this subsection and prescribing conditions and circumstances for any such exemption. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Same, insurance for passenger transportation vehicles

(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations,

(a) requiring owners, lessees and operators of passenger transportation vehicles to carry insurance, and prescribing the form, amount, nature, class, provisions and conditions of the insurance and requirements respecting evidence of such insurance;

(b) prescribing obligations in respect of insurance on persons who accept, facilitate, broker requests for, advertise or offer transportation by persons to whom a regulation made under clause (a) applies;

(c) prescribing obligations of drivers of passenger transportation vehicles with respect to the carrying and surrender of evidence of insurance;

(d) exempting any class of person or vehicle from any regulation made under this subsection and prescribing conditions and circumstances for any such exemption. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Same, reports

(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations requiring owners, lessees or operators of passenger transportation vehicles and persons who accept, facilitate, broker requests for, advertise or offer transportation in passenger transportation vehicles to report to the Ministry on their operations and activities, and governing such reports. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Information

(4) The Ministry shall keep confidential all information reported to it pursuant to a regulation made under subsection (3) but it may disclose summaries or analyses that include information derived from the reports. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Same

(5) Subsection (4) prevails over the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Offence

(6) A person who contravenes a regulation made under subsection (1) or (3) is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $20,000. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Same, insurance-related offences

(7) A person who contravenes a regulation made under clause (2) (a) or (b) is guilty of an offence and is liable on a first conviction to a fine of not less than $5,000 and not more than $25,000 and on each subsequent conviction to a fine of not less than $10,000 and not more than $50,000 and, in addition, the person's driver's licence may be suspended for a period of not more than one year. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Same

(8) A person who contravenes a regulation made under clause (2) (c) is guilty of an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine of not less than $250 and not more than $20,000. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Limitation on prosecutions

(9) No proceeding for an offence under subsection (2) shall be instituted more than three years after the facts on which the proceeding is based are alleged to have occurred. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).

Definition

(10) In this section,

"passenger transportation vehicle" means a bus or other motor vehicle that is used to transport passengers for compensation, but does not include a vehicle operated by or on behalf of a municipality as part of a passenger transportation system within the municipality. 2020, c. 34, Sched. 23, s. 7 (6).