Cartage, cabs, etc.
1. For licensing, regulating and governing teamsters, carters, owners and drivers of cabs, buses, motor or other vehicles used for hire or any class or classes thereof; for establishing the rates or fares to be charged by the owners or drivers of such vehicles for the conveyance of goods or passengers either wholly within the municipality or to any point not more than five kilometres beyond its limits, and for providing for the collection of such rates or fares; for limiting the number of cabs, buses, motor or other vehicles used for hire, or any class or classes thereof; and for revoking any such licence. Saving (a) No by-law passed under this paragraph by the council of the City of Mississauga shall apply to owners and drivers of cabs, other than cabs licensed by the said council, while such cabs are engaged in the conveyance of goods or passengers, if such conveyance commenced at the Toronto International Airport. Cabs, destinations outside municipality (b) A by-law passed under this paragraph for the licensing of owners and drivers of cabs, (i) may provide that the by-law, including any provisions for establishing fares or rates or limiting the number of cabs, applies to the owners and drivers of cabs engaged in the conveyance of goods or passengers from any point within the municipality to any point outside it, except a conveyance to an airport situated outside the municipality, (A) where the airport is owned and operated by the Crown in right of Canada and the cab bears a valid and subsisting plate issued in respect of the airport under the Government Airport Concession Operations Regulations made under the Department of Transport Act (Canada), or (B) where the airport is operated by a corporation or other body designated by the Governor in Council as a designated airport authority under the Airport Transfer (Miscellaneous Matters) Act (Canada) and the cab bears a valid and subsisting permit or licence issued by the designated airport authority, (ii) may exempt from all or any of its provisions, upon such conditions as may be set out in the by-law, owners and drivers of cabs engaged in the conveyance of, (A) children taking the cab both to and from nursery school, school or other full-time education institution, or (B) physically, emotionally or mentally handicapped persons, as defined in the by-law, from any point within the municipality to any point outside the municipality, where the conveyance is made pursuant to a written contract for the use of a cab with respect to which there is a valid and subsisting licence issued under a by-law passed under this paragraph by another municipality, and (iii) may exempt from all or any of its provisions owners and drivers of cabs with respect to which there is a valid and subsisting licence issued under this paragraph by another municipality named in the by-law. (c) Despite this paragraph, a by-law passed under this paragraph is void to the extent that it restricts, limits or prevents the owners and drivers of cabs from engaging in conveyances that meet the following criteria: i. The purpose of the conveyance is to transport physically, emotionally or mentally handicapped persons from any point in the municipality to which the by-law applies to any point outside the municipality. ii. The conveyance is made pursuant to a written contract for the use of a cab with respect to which a valid and subsisting licence has been issued under a by-law passed under this paragraph by the municipality in which the conveyance begins or ends. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.45, s. 232; 1994, c. 27, s. 123 (11); 1996, c. 1, Sched. M, s. 16; 1996, c. 32, s. 52. 233.Repealed: 1996, c. 1, Sched. M, s. 17.