T-11.2 - Act respecting remunerated passenger transportation by automobile

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chapter T-11.2
Act respecting remunerated passenger transportation by automobile
CHAPTER I
PURPOSES, DEFINITIONS AND OTHER INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, c. I.
1. The purpose of this Act is to monitor and control remunerated passenger transportation by automobile, in order to ensure the safety of passengers and the transparency of fares in keeping with the principles of sustainable development, carbon footprint reduction, and fairness among
(1)  the various ways to organize the transportation, regardless of whether it is offered as part of a transportation system;
(2)  the various means used to distribute trip requests, whether by mobile application or otherwise; and
(3)  the various modes that can be used to offer this transportation, particularly in the case of transportation by taxi, carpooling or shared transportation.
In addition, the Act aims to promote access for persons with disabilities to transportation by automobile, including that offered by way of an adapted automobile, as well as the emergence of technological means and mobility modes.
2019, c. 18, s. 1.
2. The Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec, the Commission des transports du Québec and the persons responsible for verifying compliance with this Act, through the functions and powers assigned to them respectively under this Act, monitor and control remunerated passenger transportation by automobile.
2019, c. 18, s. 2.
3. Passenger transportation by automobile within the meaning of this Act is provided when a person, the passenger, is carried by means of a motor vehicle, other than a bus or a minibus, driven by another person, the driver.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, motor vehicle, and minibus have the meaning assigned by the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2).
2019, c. 18, s. 3.
4. An adapted automobile is one that meets the following conditions:
(1)  unless otherwise prescribed by government regulation, it is fitted to carry at least one person in a wheelchair;
(2)  it is equipped with
(a)  a wheelchair access ramp or a platform lift;
(b)  a restraining device, determined by government regulation, to keep each wheelchair in place; and
(c)  safety belts for each wheelchair, consisting of a shoulder belt and a lap belt; and
(3)  any other condition prescribed by such a regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 4.
5. A transportation system is made up of several drivers and several automobiles under the responsibility of a legal person who agrees to be the operator and who either carries out the functions of dispatcher and keeper of the register in which the drivers and automobiles are registered or sees to it that those functions are carried out by suppliers.
2019, c. 18, s. 5.
6. A dispatcher means anyone who distributes trip requests to drivers via a natural person and a technological means that does not require the intervention of such a person, or via either of those ways.
When an employee distributes trip requests, the employer is deemed to be the dispatcher.
2019, c. 18, s. 6.
7. Any passenger transportation by automobile must, when remunerated, be offered and provided using a qualified automobile driven by a qualified driver, except in the case of transportation that is exempted under Chapter XVI.
Transportation is remunerated when it allows anyone to earn income, even if it is insufficient to make a profit.
For the purposes of this Act, transportation that is offered also includes that which is provided, unless the context indicates a different meaning.
2019, c. 18, s. 7.
8. A qualified driver is a natural person who, as the case may be,
(1)  is authorized by the Société, under Division I of Chapter II, to be a driver; a person so authorized is called an authorized driver ; or
(2)  is registered with the operator of a transportation system authorized by the Commission under Chapter III; a person so registered is called a registered driver.
2019, c. 18, s. 8.
9. A qualified automobile is one that, as the case may be,
(1)  is authorized by the Société under Division II of Chapter II; an automobile so authorized is called an authorized automobile ; or
(2)  is registered with the operator of a transportation system authorized by the Commission under Chapter III; an automobile so registered is called a registered automobile.
2019, c. 18, s. 9.
CHAPTER II
DRIVER AND AUTOMOBILE AUTHORIZATION
2019, c. 18, c. II.
DIVISION I
DRIVERS
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
10. The Société authorizes a person to be a driver when he or she files an admissible authorization application with it and complies with the following conditions:
(1)  the person has held a driver’s licence of an appropriate class in accordance with the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) and the regulations for at least 12 months, and was not under a sanction described in section 106.1 of that Code in the 12 months preceding the application or at the time the application was filed;
(2)  the person has completed training on safety, transportation of persons with disabilities, and the other subjects prescribed by regulation of the Minister and has done so in accordance with the conditions prescribed by that regulation;
(3)  the person can understand, speak and read French;
(4)  the person has passed an examination on the subject matters to be covered by the training, the conditions and content of which are established by regulation of the Minister;
(5)  the person’s driver’s licence is not subject to the condition of driving a road vehicle mandatorily equipped with an alcohol ignition interlock device approved by the Société;
(6)  no authorization granted to the person under this Act is suspended at the time the authorization application is filed or was cancelled, except at the person’s request in the five years preceding that time; and
(7)  the person has no judicial record related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 10.
11. The following are judicial record entries related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation:
(1)  a finding of guilt, within the five years preceding the application, for a criminal offence under any of sections 220, 221, 236, 320.13, 320.14, 320.15, 320.16, 320.17 and 320.18 of the Criminal Code (S.R.C. 1985, c. C-46) committed with a road vehicle, unless a pardon has been obtained, or a proceeding still pending for any of those offences;
(2)  a finding of guilt, within the five years preceding the application, for an offence under any of sections 5 to 7 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (S.C. 1996, c. 19) or any of sections 9, 10, 11 and 14 of the Cannabis Act (S.C. 2018, c. 16), unless a pardon has been obtained, or a proceeding still pending for any of those offences; and
(3)  a finding of guilt for a criminal offence, other than an offence referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, which, in the opinion of the Société, is related to those aptitudes and that conduct, unless a pardon has been obtained, or a proceeding still pending for such an offence.
2019, c. 18, s. 11.
12. The applicant must submit the following information in the authorization application:
(1)  his or her name and contact information;
(2)  where applicable, the grounds on which the applicant considers that his or her judicial record entries, other than those referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 11, are unrelated to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation; and
(3)  any other information that may be determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 12.
13. The applicant must file the authorization application together with
(1)  the documents certifying that he or she has completed the training referred to in paragraph 2 of section 10 and has passed the examination referred to in paragraph 4 of that section;
(2)  either the certificate of no judicial record or the judicial record list issued by a police force under section 14;
(3)  any other document that may be determined by government regulation; and
(4)  the fees determined by regulation of the Société.
2019, c. 18, s. 13.
14. Police forces in Québec are required to issue one of the following documents to a person requesting it, as applicable:
(1)  a document certifying that databases available to them do not contain information that establishes that the person has a judicial record, including any proceedings still pending; this document is called a certificate of no judicial record ; or
(2)  a list of all of the entries on the person’s judicial record including any proceedings still pending; the list is called a judicial record list.
The Government prescribes, by regulation, the form of those documents and the fees payable for their issue.
2019, c. 18, s. 14.
15. Authorization applications that do not include the information prescribed by section 12 or that are not filed together with the documents and fees prescribed by section 13 are inadmissible.
Applications are also inadmissible if an applicant has a judicial record entry referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 of section 11.
2019, c. 18, s. 15.
16. The Société examines authorization applications; it must refuse to grant an application when it becomes aware that the applicant does not meet one of the conditions set out in paragraphs 1, 3, 5 and 6 of section 10 or when it considers that the applicant has a judicial record entry referred to in paragraph 3 of section 11.
However, before determining whether the applicant has such a record entry, the Société must consult the judicial record evaluation committee with respect to the relation between the judicial records and the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 16.
17. The Minister establishes the judicial record evaluation committee. The committee is composed of one member designated by the Société, one member designated by the Commission and one member designated by the Minister. Those members are, respectively, personnel of the Société, the Commission and the Ministère des Transports.
The committee also includes a member designated in accordance with the second paragraph of section 212.
At least one of the committee members must be a lawyer or a notary.
2019, c. 18, s. 17.
18. When the Société grants an authorization application, it issues the applicant a permit certifying that the applicant is an authorized driver.
The permit must contain a photograph of the driver taken by the Société and bear a number. The content of the permit as well as its form and the intervals at which the photograph must be updated are determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 18.
19. When the Société refuses to grant an authorization application, it notifies the applicant in writing of its decision.
Before refusing to grant its authorization, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the applicant in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 19.
DIVISION II
AUTOMOBILES
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
20. An automobile is authorized by the Société when its owner files an admissible authorization application with the Société and the following conditions are met:
(1)  the automobile
(a)  is a passenger vehicle within the meaning of section 4 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2),
(b)  is not equipped with an alcohol ignition interlock device approved by the Société,
(c)  if the kilometrage indicated on its odometer or its age, determined based on the model year, exceeds the limits prescribed by government regulation, has undergone a mechanical inspection by a person authorized by the Société under section 520 of the Highway Safety Code, in accordance with the standards and procedures established by the regulation made for the purposes of section 522 of the Code, following which a mechanical inspection certificate was issued stating that the automobile is in conformity with that Code, and
(d)  is equipped with a real-time geolocation device recognized by the Minister and complies with the other conditions prescribed by government regulation;
(2)  the owner has met all the requirements necessary for the proper registration of the automobile and obtaining the right to put it into operation; and
(3)  no authorization granted under this Act, for an automobile belonging to the owner or, as applicable, for a transportation system of which the owner was the operator is suspended at the time the authorization application is filed or was cancelled except at the owner’s request in the five years preceding that time.
The provisions of this Act that apply to the owner of an automobile also apply to any person who acquires or possesses an automobile under a title involving a condition or term giving the person the right to become the owner thereof, or under a title giving the person the right to use it as owner thereof charged to deliver over. They also apply to every person who leases an automobile for a period of not less than one year.
2019, c. 18, s. 20.
21. The Minister recognizes a real-time geolocation device if it transmits the following data at intervals of not more than five seconds and in accordance with the other conditions prescribed by government regulation:
(1)  data making it possible to
(a)  locate the automobile being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation and track its position;
(b)  identify the automobile equipped with the device; and
(c)  determine whether the automobile equipped with the device is being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation and, if so, whether it is providing a trip; and
(2)  any other data prescribed by government regulation.
The conditions referred to in the first paragraph must ensure that passengers remain anonymous; in particular, the places where the trips start and end must be indicated at a point situated 50 metres from those places or at the closest intersection, whichever is closest.
The Minister publishes a list of the geolocation devices the Minister recognizes on the Minister’s department’s website.
2019, c. 18, s. 21.
22. The owner must include the following information in the authorization application relating to the automobile:
(1)  the owner’s name and contact information;
(2)  the automobile’s licence plate number and the kilometrage indicated on its odometer; and
(3)  any other information that may be determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 22.
23. The owner must file the authorization application together with any document that may be determined by government regulation and any fees determined by a regulation of the Société.
2019, c. 18, s. 23.
24. Authorization applications that do not include the information required under section 22 or that are not filed together with the insurance contribution determined under section 151.3.1 of the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25) and the documents and fees required under section 23 are inadmissible.
Applications for automobiles that are equipped with an alcohol ignition interlock device approved by the Société are also inadmissible.
2019, c. 18, s. 24; I.N. 2020-10-20; I.N. 2021-10-01.
25. The Société examines authorization applications; it must refuse to grant an application if it becomes aware that the automobile does not meet one of the conditions set out in subparagraphs a, c and d of subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 20 or if it becomes aware that the owner does not meet one of the conditions set out in subparagraphs 2 and 3 of that paragraph.
2019, c. 18, s. 25.
26. When the Société grants an authorization application, it issues to the owner a document certifying that the automobile is authorized.
The Société also issues to the owner the accessory prescribed by government regulation to visibly identify whether the authorized automobile is being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 26.
27. When the Société refuses to grant an authorization application, it notifies the owner of the automobile that is the subject of the application in writing of its decision.
Before refusing to grant its authorization, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the owner in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 27.
CHAPTER III
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
2019, c. 18, c. III.
DIVISION I
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AUTHORIZATION
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
28. A transportation system is authorized by the Commission when the legal person who wishes to be its operator files an admissible authorization application with the Commission and the following conditions are met:
(1)  the applicant demonstrates to the Commission that, taking into consideration the size of the proposed system, the applicant will be capable of performing the obligations that will be incumbent on it as operator, in particular as regards
(a)  adequate human and material resources to be devoted to monitoring the activities of the proposed system, the registered drivers and automobiles, the owners of registered automobiles and the dispatcher or keeper of the register whose services the applicant will retain, where applicable, and
(b)  the measures the applicant intends to take to prevent and repress any failure to comply with the provisions applicable to those activities, persons, automobiles and service suppliers;
(2)  the applicant’s directors and officers or any other person that may be determined by government regulation meet the following conditions:
(a)  they have the knowledge or experience relevant to the competent performance of the obligations that will be incumbent on the applicant as system operator, and
(b)  they have no judicial record related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system;
(3)  no authorization granted under this Act by the Société or the Commission for an automobile belonging to the applicant or for a transportation system of which the applicant was the operator is suspended at the time the authorization application is filed or was cancelled except at the applicant’s request in the five years preceding that time; and
(4)  the applicant has not failed to pay a sum payable under this Act.
For the purposes of subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph, officer means the applicant’s president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer and secretary or any person holding a similar position, as well as any person designated as an officer by a resolution of the applicant’s board of directors.
2019, c. 18, s. 28.
29. A judicial record entry related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system is a finding of guilt for a criminal offence that, in the opinion of the Commission, is related to those aptitudes and that conduct, unless a pardon has been obtained, or a proceeding still pending for such an offence.
2019, c. 18, s. 29.
30. An applicant must submit the following information in the authorization application relating to the proposed transportation system:
(1)  its name, the name it intends to use in Québec, and the name of the system if different;
(2)  the address of its head office and, if the latter is not in Québec, the proposed address of its establishment in Québec;
(3)  a description of its financial structure;
(4)  a description of the proposed transportation system, that is,
(a)  where applicable, the boundaries of the proposed service territory in Québec,
(b)  where applicable, the name and contact information of any dispatcher whose services the applicant will retain,
(c)  where applicable, the name and contact information of the keeper of the register whose services the applicant will retain,
(d)  the maximum number of drivers that may be registered,
(e)  the maximum number of automobiles that may be on duty at the same time,
(f)  the human and material resources that will be devoted to monitoring the activities of the proposed system, the registered drivers and automobiles, the owners of registered automobiles and the dispatcher or keeper of the register whose services the applicant will retain, where applicable, and
(g)  the measures the applicant intends to take to prevent and repress any failure to comply with the provisions applicable to those activities, persons, automobiles and, if applicable, service suppliers;
(5)  where applicable, the grounds on which any person referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 28 considers that his or her judicial record entries are unrelated to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system;
(6)  a description of any accessory required to identify the registered automobiles as being part of the system, including a reproduction of the accessory; and
(7)  any other information that may be determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 30.
31. The applicant must file the authorization application together with
(1)  a list of the names and contact information of the persons referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 28;
(2)  the résumé of each of those persons;
(3)  either the certificate of no judicial record or the judicial record list issued by a police force under section 14 concerning all those persons;
(4)  where applicable, a reproduction of the applicant’s audited financial statements for its most recent fiscal year ended;
(5)  a business plan for a minimum of three years describing
(a)  the applicant’s involvement in the proposed transportation system,
(b)  all means to solicit drivers and obtain the automobiles necessary for the system, and
(c)  any means used to distribute trip requests among drivers, including the means that allows the person requesting the trip to be informed of the maximum fare in writing and to agree to it prior to the driver being notified of the trip request;
(6)  any other document that may be prescribed by government regulation; and
(7)  the fees for examining the application and the duties determined by the regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 31.
32. Authorization applications that do not include the information prescribed by section 30 or which are not filed together with the documents, fees and duties prescribed by section 31 are inadmissible.
2019, c. 18, s. 32.
33. The Commission examines authorization applications. It may require from the applicant, within the time and in the manner it determines, any document or additional information it considers necessary for the examination of the application. Similarly, it may require any modification to the application filed with it which it considers necessary for the applicant to be able to comply with the obligations that will be incumbent on it as transportation system operator.
The Commission hears the applicant if the applicant requests it.
2019, c. 18, s. 33.
34. The Commission must refuse to grant an authorization application if
(1)  it becomes aware that the applicant does not meet one of the conditions set out in subparagraphs 3 and 4 of the first paragraph of section 28;
(2)  it considers that the applicant fails to demonstrate that it is capable of complying with the obligations that will be incumbent on it as transportation system operator; or
(3)  it considers that a person referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 28 has a judicial record related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system.
However, before determining whether such a person has such a judicial record, the Commission must consult, concerning that relation, the judicial record evaluation committee referred to in section 17.
2019, c. 18, s. 34.
35. When the Commission grants an application, it issues a document to the applicant certifying that the transportation system is authorized.
In addition to the date and time the authorization is granted, the document contains the following information, as specified in the application:
(1)  where applicable, the boundaries of the service territory, and the name and contact information of the dispatcher and of the keeper of the register;
(2)  the maximum number of drivers that may be registered;
(3)  the maximum number of automobiles that may be on duty at the same time;
(4)  the human and material resources that will be devoted to monitoring the activities of the system, the registered drivers and automobiles, the owners of registered automobiles and the dispatcher or keeper of the register whose services the applicant will retain, where applicable; and
(5)  the measures the applicant intends to take to prevent and repress any failure to comply with the provisions applicable to those activities, persons, automobiles and service suppliers.
The applicant becomes, as of the date and time shown in that document, the operator of the authorized transportation system.
2019, c. 18, s. 35.
36. When the Commission refuses to grant an application, it notifies the applicant in writing of its decision.
Before refusing to grant its authorization, the Commission must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the applicant in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 36.
37. When the fare of a trip made as part of the transportation system is collected electronically, on behalf of the drivers registered with the system operator, by the operator or a supplier whose services the operator retains, the operator or, if applicable, the supplier must enter into an agreement with the Minister of Revenue to ensure compliance with government requirements regarding taxation.
The Minister of Revenue may, on such conditions the Minister determines, exempt an operator or supplier or a class of operators or suppliers from the requirement set out in the first paragraph. The Minister may, however, cancel the exemption or modify the conditions.
2019, c. 18, s. 37; 2021, c. 14, s. 239.
38. No transportation system may be operated unless
(1)  where applicable, the agreement under section 37 was entered into in relation to that system; and
(2)  the operator holds a liability insurance contract under section 84 of the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25) guaranteeing compensation for property damage caused by the automobiles used by the drivers registered with the operator.
The documents listed below are, without delay, sent to the Commission by the following persons:
(1)  the Minister of Revenue sends a notice of the conclusion of the agreement under section 37; and
(2)  the operator sends a reproduction of the insurance certificate certifying the insurance contract referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph.
2019, c. 18, s. 38; 2021, c. 14, s. 240.
39. (Repealed).
2019, c. 18, s. 39; 2021, c. 34, s. 134.
40. A change to a transportation system, including to its operator’s activities or, as applicable, to those of a supplier whose services the operator retains, may not be made without first obtaining from the Commission a new authorization to replace the system’s authorization,
(1)  where the change is incompatible with the authorization issued; or
(2)  in any other case that may be prescribed by government regulation.
Despite sections 30 and 31, the operator is then required to include in the application only the information that differs from that included in the previous authorization application, with the same applying to the documents it must file with the application. The other provisions of this division apply to the application for a new authorization, with the necessary modifications.
An authorization granted by the Commission may not be the subject of a change.
2019, c. 18, s. 40.
41. The Commission must establish and keep up to date a register of transportation system operators that includes the following information for each of them:
(1)  its name, the name it uses in Québec if different, the address of its head office and, if its head office is not in Québec, the address of its establishment in Québec;
(2)  the information prescribed in subparagraphs 1 to 3 of the second paragraph of section 35; and
(3)  any other information that may be prescribed by government regulation.
The information contained in the register of transportation system operators is public. The Commission must promptly publish the register on its website.
2019, c. 18, s. 41.
DIVISION II
REGISTRATION OF DRIVERS AND AUTOMOBILES
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
§ 1.  — Judicial record evaluation
2019, c. 18, Sd. 1.
42. A person must, for the purpose of registering as a driver with a transportation system operator, obtain from a police force in accordance with section 14 either a certificate of no judicial record or a judicial record list.
2019, c. 18, s. 42.
43. The person to whom a police force issued a judicial record list that does not include any offence referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 11 may apply, in writing, to the Société to issue a certificate of no judicial record related to a driver’s aptitudes and conduct.
2019, c. 18, s. 43.
44. Applicants must submit the following information in their application filed under section 43:
(1)  their name and contact information;
(2)  the grounds on which they consider that their judicial record entries are unrelated to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation; and
(3)  any other information that may be prescribed by government regulation.
The judicial record list, and the fees prescribed by a regulation of the Société, must be filed together with the application.
2019, c. 18, s. 44.
45. Applications that do not contain the information referred to in section 44 or that are not filed together with the judicial record list and fees referred to in that section are inadmissible.
2019, c. 18, s. 45.
46. The Société examines the applications.
The Société must refuse to grant an application if it considers that an applicant’s judicial record entries are related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be an automobile driver for the purpose of offering passenger transportation. Otherwise, it issues to the applicant a certificate of no judicial record related to a driver’s aptitudes and conduct.
However, the Société must, before determining whether an applicant’s judicial record entries are so related, consult, concerning that relation, the judicial record evaluation committee referred to in section 17.
Before refusing to grant the application, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the applicant in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 46.
§ 2.  — Registration with an operator
2019, c. 18, Sd. 2.
47. A transportation system operator may register a person as a driver once it has ascertained that the person satisfies the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 to 5 of section 10 and that the person has sent the operator a reproduction of the following documents:
(1)  the permit issued to him or her by the Société under section 18 or one of the following documents, issued within the three months preceding the registration:
(a)  a certificate of no judicial record issued by a police force under subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 14, or
(b)  a certificate of no judicial record related to a driver’s aptitudes and conduct issued by the Société under section 46; and
(2)  any other document that may be prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 47.
48. A transportation system operator must provide to every driver it registers a document containing a photograph of the driver and a reference that allows passengers to identify the driver as being part of the system. The photograph must be updated in accordance with the intervals prescribed for a photograph appearing on a permit issued under section 18.
The operator is not required to provide such a document if, as part of the system, all trips may be requested only by a technological means displaying, at all times between the trip request and the end of the trip, the photograph of the driver and a reference that allows the driver to be identified as being part of the system. The first paragraph applies to any update of the photograph.
2019, c. 18, s. 48.
49. A transportation system operator may register an automobile once it has ascertained that the automobile satisfies the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1 and 2 of the first paragraph of section 20.
If the automobile must undergo the mechanical inspection prescribed by subparagraph c of that subparagraph 1, the operator may not register the automobile without having obtained a reproduction of the mechanical inspection certificate issued under section 527 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) stating that the automobile is in conformity with the Code.
2019, c. 18, s. 49.
50. A transportation system operator must pay to the Société the insurance contribution determined under section 151.3.1 of the Automobile Insurance Act (chapter A-25).
The Government determines, by regulation, the terms of payment for the insurance contribution, including the date on which it becomes payable and the intervals at which it must be paid.
2019, c. 18, s. 50; I.N. 2020-10-20; I.N. 2021-10-01.
51. A transportation system operator must provide automobile owners it registers with the following accessories:
(1)  any accessory required to identify the registered automobile as being part of the system; and
(2)  the accessory prescribed by government regulation that makes it possible to identify whether the registered automobile is being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
An accessory referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph must not, in the opinion of the Commission, create confusion with that used for another transportation system. The nature and characteristics of such an accessory may be prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 51.
52. A transportation system operator must see to it that a register containing the information prescribed by government regulation and pertaining to registered drivers and automobiles is kept.
The conditions and procedures for keeping and preserving the register, for sharing the information it contains with the Société and the Commission and for access to it by persons acting as inspectors for the purposes of this Act are prescribed by government regulation; the conditions and procedures may, among other things, vary according to the nature and operation of the transportation system concerned or the type of register.
2019, c. 18, s. 52.
CHAPTER III.1
GENERAL REQUIREMENT
2023, c. 10, s. 56.
52.1. No one may, when soliciting a person with a view to offer the person remunerated passenger transportation by automobile, behave in such a way that may importune or intimidate the solicited person, in particular,
(1)  threaten or insult the person;
(2)  follow the person or impede the person’s movement;
(3)  touch or attempt to touch the person or the person’s property; or
(4)  persistently solicit the person despite the person’s refusal or lack of response.
2023, c. 10, s. 56.
CHAPTER IV
OBLIGATIONS OF QUALIFIED DRIVERS AND QUALIFIED AUTOMOBILE OWNERS
2019, c. 18, c. IV.
DIVISION I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
53. Qualified drivers who do not own the qualified automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation must have in their possession, when offering such passenger transportation, a reproduction of the contract by which the owner entrusts them with the care or control of the automobile.
2019, c. 18, s. 53.
54. Qualified drivers must affix to the qualified automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation the accessory prescribed by government regulation, provided to owners by the Société or the operator the automobile is registered with, which makes it possible to identify whether the authorized automobile is being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 54.
55. Qualified drivers must conduct a basic inspection of the qualified automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation before their first daily use of the automobile for that purpose.
In addition, when offering such transportation, drivers must have a document in their possession showing that such inspection was conducted.
The inspection procedures and the content of the document are prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 55.
56. When qualified drivers use an automobile whose kilometrage on the odometer or whose age, determined based on the model year, exceeds the limits prescribed by government regulation, to offer remunerated passenger transportation, they must have in their possession a reproduction of the most recent mechanical inspection certificate issued under section 527 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2).
2019, c. 18, s. 56.
57. Qualified drivers must ensure that the real-time geolocation device a qualified automobile is equipped with is functioning at all times when they use the automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
Such drivers are required to enter in the device, in a timely manner, any data referred to in section 21 that is missing.
2019, c. 18, s. 57.
58. Qualified drivers may not use a qualified automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation in the following cases:
(1)  when the car body or passenger compartment is not clean;
(2)  when they notice that the automobile has a defect or that the equipment added to it, in particular the real-time geolocation device, the taximeter and the domelight, if any, is defective;
(3)  when the mechanical inspection certificate referred to in section 56 indicates that the automobile has a defect; and
(4)  when they receive a notice of defect concerning the automobile issued by a vehicle manufacturer in accordance with the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (S.C. 1993, c. 16) or when the automobile owner or the operator informs them of the receipt of such a notice.
However, in the case of a minor defect, the automobile may be used provided that the repair is made within 48 hours.
For the purposes of this Act, minor and major defects are those prescribed by a regulation made under Chapter I of Title IX of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2).
2019, c. 18, s. 58.
59. Qualified drivers who notice that the qualified automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation, or the equipment added to it, has a defect must notify the owner without delay.
The form and content of the notice are prescribed by government regulation; drivers must have a reproduction of the notice in their possession when offering remunerated passenger transportation, until such time as the automobile has been repaired.
2019, c. 18, s. 59.
60. When offering remunerated passenger transportation, qualified drivers of a qualified automobile having undergone a repair for a major defect must have in their possession the report from a certified mechanic certifying that the repair was made in accordance with standard practice.
For the purposes of this Act, a certified mechanic means a person who meets the conditions prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 60.
61. Qualified drivers must reserve the trip exclusively for a single passenger, or more than one passenger when the trip request is for those passengers.
However, qualified drivers may offer to transport more than one passenger having separately requested a trip to the same destination or to several destinations along the same route, provided the trip meets either of the following conditions:
(1)  it is requested by a technological means allowing each passenger to agree in writing and in advance to share the cost of the trip; or
(2)  it is provided on a predetermined route that includes more than one stop and according to a pre-established schedule even when there are no passengers on board and without a passenger deciding on the trip.
Drivers must offer to transport more than one passenger when the transportation is offered in accordance with an agreement entered into with a municipality, an intermunicipal board or another public body exercising the jurisdiction conferred on it by law as regards shared transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 61.
61.1. Qualified drivers who offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile whose starting point is a place determined by regulation of the Minister must be authorized to do so by the person in charge of the place. They must in such case have in their possession a reproduction of the authorization so issued. The regulation specifies the form and content of the authorization.
The person in charge of the place must see to it that a register of the authorizations issued by the person is kept. The conditions and procedures for keeping and preserving the register and for sharing the information it contains with the Société, the Commission and persons acting as inspectors for the purposes of this Act are prescribed by government regulation.
2023, c. 10, s. 57.
62. Despite any provision of this chapter, qualified drivers are not required to have in their possession a document provided for by those provisions when it is available, in accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed by government regulation, to persons acting as inspectors or investigators for the purposes of this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 62.
DIVISION II
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR DRIVERS AUTHORIZED BY THE SOCIÉTÉ
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
63. Authorized drivers must display the permit issued by the Société under section 18 in full view of passengers in the authorized automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
Drivers must also, in the same circumstances, have in their possession the document issued by the Société under section 26.
2019, c. 18, s. 63.
64. Authorized drivers must, every two years from the date prescribed by government regulation, which must be within 24 months following the date on which the Société granted them its authorization, send the Société either their certificate of no judicial record or their judicial record list issued by a police force under section 14.
Where applicable, drivers must file with the certificate or list a document setting out the grounds on which they consider that a criminal offence, other than an offence referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 of section 11, of which they were found guilty or for which they are the subject of a proceeding still pending, is unrelated to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 64.
DIVISION III
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR DRIVERS REGISTERED WITH AN OPERATOR
2019, c. 18, Div. III.
65. Drivers registered with the operator of a transportation system may offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile as part of that transportation system.
Drivers are then required to use an automobile registered with that operator.
2019, c. 18, s. 65.
66. The starting point of trips provided by drivers registered with a transportation system operator must be within the boundaries of the service territory defined, where applicable, in the authorization granted for the system.
However, the starting point of a trip may be outside that territory in a case where the registered automobile used to provide it is returning to that territory after leaving it to provide a trip.
2019, c. 18, s. 66.
67. Registered drivers must display the document identifying them as being part of the transportation system and provided for in the first paragraph of section 48 in full view of passengers in the registered automobile they use to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
Drivers are not required to do so if, under the second paragraph of that section, the operator which they are registered with is not required to provide them with such a document.
2019, c. 18, s. 67.
68. When using an automobile registered with a transportation system operator to offer remunerated passenger transportation, registered drivers must, according to the terms and conditions that may be determined by government regulation, affix to the automobile the accessory required to identify it as being part of the system and which the operator was required to provide to the drivers.
2019, c. 18, s. 68.
69. In addition to notifying the owner of the automobile, registered drivers must, in the cases referred to in section 59, send the notice provided for in that section to the transportation system operator with which the automobile is registered.
2019, c. 18, s. 69.
70. Registered drivers must, every two years following the date of their registration with an operator, send the operator either the certificate of no judicial record concerning them issued by a police force under subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 14 or the certificate of no judicial record related to the drivers’ aptitudes and conduct issued by the Société under section 46.
2019, c. 18, s. 70.
DIVISION IV
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR OWNERS OF QUALIFIED AUTOMOBILES
2019, c. 18, Div. IV.
71. The owner of a qualified automobile is required to make available to the qualified driver using the automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation the document and accessory provided for in section 26 which were provided to the owner by the Société or the accessories referred to in the first paragraph of section 51 which were provided to the owner by the transportation system operator the automobile is registered with.
2019, c. 18, s. 71.
72. The owner of a qualified automobile is required to see to it that the real-time geolocation device the automobile is equipped with transmits the data referred to in section 21 in accordance with that section to the following recipients:
(1)  a municipality, an intermunicipal board or another public body exercising the jurisdiction conferred on it by law as regards shared transportation in the territory in which the automobile is used and that, at its request, has been designated by the Minister; and
(2)  a transportation enterprise or other enterprise providing transportation-related services that is designated by the Minister.
The Minister publishes, on the Minister’s department’s website, the recipients designated under the first paragraph. The Minister may revoke a designation, in particular if the Minister has reasonable grounds to believe that the recipient concerned is unable to ensure adequate protection of the data transmitted to it.
The owner of the automobile is not required to see to it that the data is transmitted if the recipient is the transportation service operator with which the automobile is registered or the dispatcher providing services to the qualified driver who uses the automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 72.
73. The owner of a qualified automobile is required to ensure its maintenance and to have the necessary repairs made when the automobile or equipment added to it has a defect referred to in section 58; the owner must do so within the time provided for in the second paragraph of that section in the case of a minor defect.
The owner may not permit or tolerate the automobile being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation if
(1)  a defect under section 58 prevents its use; or
(2)  the automobile no longer complies with the conditions prescribed by government regulation.
In addition, if the kilometrage on the odometer or the age of the automobile, determined based on the model year, exceeds the limits prescribed by government regulation, the owner must submit, at the intervals prescribed by the regulation, the automobile to the mechanical inspection provided for in subparagraph c of subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 20 and obtain a mechanical inspection certificate issued under section 527 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2).
The owner must forward a reproduction of the certificate to all qualified drivers using the automobile. In the case of a registered automobile, the owner must notify the operator of all defects indicated on the certificate.
2019, c. 18, s. 73.
74. The owner of a qualified automobile who is informed that a notice of defect has been issued by a vehicle manufacturer in accordance with the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (S.C. 1993, c. 16) for that automobile must, without delay, take the necessary measures to correct the defect as indicated in the manufacturer’s directions or to have the automobile repaired or modified so as to eliminate the defect.
Where the notice refers to a major defect, the automobile may not be used to offer remunerated passenger transportation until the defect is corrected as indicated or the automobile is repaired or modified appropriately.
The owner is required to inform the driver, as well as the transportation system operator in the case of a registered automobile, without delay of the notice of defect the owner has received.
2019, c. 18, s. 74.
75. The owner of a qualified automobile must, when a major defect is found, have it repaired in accordance with standard practice by a certified mechanic.
After the repairs have been made, the owner must obtain a report from the mechanic certifying that the automobile was so repaired and forward it to the qualified driver using the automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 75.
76. The owner of a qualified automobile may not transfer it unless the owner obtains the cancellation of the authorization granted by the Société for that automobile or, as the case may be, the striking off of the owner’s registration with a transportation system operator.
2019, c. 18, s. 76.
CHAPTER V
OBLIGATIONS OF OPERATORS
2019, c. 18, c. V.
DIVISION I
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM MONITORING
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
77. A transportation system operator is responsible, to the extent provided by this Act, for ensuring the compliance with the provisions of this Act of the system’s activities, of the drivers and automobiles registered with the operator, of the owners of those registered automobiles and of any dispatcher or keeper of the register whose services the operator retains.
Consequently, the operator is required to take the measures necessary to monitor those activities, persons and automobiles, the dispatcher and the keeper of the register as well as the measures to prevent and repress any failure to comply with those provisions and to devote adequate human and material resources to such measures.
2019, c. 18, s. 77.
78. A transportation system operator must have an establishment in Québec.
2019, c. 18, s. 78.
79. A transportation system operator must, without delay, notify the owner of a registered automobile of any defect of which it has been notified by a registered driver in accordance with section 69. The operator must also notify every registered driver using a registered automobile of the notice provided to the operator by the owner in accordance with the fourth paragraph of section 73 or the third paragraph of section 74.
2019, c. 18, s. 79.
DIVISION II
REPORTS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
80. Transportation system operators must send a report of their activities to the Commission; the content of the report and the manner and frequency of its transmission are prescribed by government regulation.
Operators must also, every two years following the date on which the Commission’s authorization was granted for the transportation system, send it the following documents:
(1)  a list of the names and contact information of the persons referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 28; and
(2)  either the certificate of no judicial record or the judicial record list issued by a police force under section 14 concerning each of those persons.
Where applicable, the operators must file with those documents a document indicating the grounds on which any person referred to in subparagraph 1 of the second paragraph considers that a criminal offence, of which he or she has been found guilty or for which he or she is the subject of a proceeding still pending, is not related to the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system.
2019, c. 18, s. 80.
81. In the cases indicated in the following paragraphs, transportation system operators must, without delay, send to the Commission the information and documents referred to in those paragraphs:
(1)  a change in the contact information of its establishment in Québec: its new contact information;
(2)  a change in its name, the name it uses in Québec or the name of the system of which it is the operator: the new name;
(3)  a modification or the replacement of an accessory referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 51: a description of the accessory so modified or replaced, including a reproduction of the accessory; and
(4)  a change in the list of persons referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 28: an updated list and the certificate of no judicial record or the judicial record list issued by a police force under section 14 concerning the persons added to the list as well as their résumés.
2019, c. 18, s. 81.
82. Transportation system operators must send the Commission and the Minister, according to the form and content and at the intervals the latter determines by regulation, the information concerning the starting points and destinations of the trips provided by the drivers registered with the operators.
Operators receiving the data transmitted in accordance with section 21 must, without delay, transmit it to the recipients referred to in the first paragraph of section 72.
2019, c. 18, s. 82.
83. Transportation system operators must communicate to the Minister any information the Minister requires with respect to their activities.
2019, c. 18, s. 83.
84. Transportation system operators must make available to the Société and to the Commission any information they require to make a decision in the exercise of the functions conferred on them by this Act.
The Société notifies the Commission when an operator fails to make available the information it requires.
2019, c. 18, s. 84.
CHAPTER VI
OBLIGATIONS OF DISPATCHERS
2019, c. 18, c. VI.
85. Every dispatcher must, before providing services, register with the Commission by filing a declaration with it according to the form and content determined by government regulation. This does not apply, however, to a dispatcher that provides services exclusively to registered drivers.
In addition, a dispatcher providing services to authorized drivers must have an establishment in Québec.
2019, c. 18, s. 85.
86. The Commission must register a dispatcher as soon as it receives a declaration whose form and content comply with the provisions determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 86.
87. The Commission must constitute and keep up to date a register of the dispatchers registered with it; the register must contain the following information for each of them:
(1)  the dispatcher’s name, the name it uses in Québec if different, the address of the dispatcher’s head office and, if the head office is not in Québec, the address of the establishment in Québec;
(2)  where applicable, the boundaries of the territory served by the dispatch services provided; and
(3)  any other information that may be determined by government regulation.
A registered dispatcher must, without delay, send the Commission a declaration of any changes to the dispatcher’s information included in the register.
The information included in the dispatchers’ register is public. The Commission must promptly publish the register on its website.
2019, c. 18, s. 87.
88. A registered dispatcher must, before providing services to a driver, obtain from the driver a reproduction of the following documents:
(1)  the permit issued to him or her by the Société under section 18; and
(2)  the document provided for in the first paragraph of section 26 certifying that the automobile he or she uses to offer remunerated passenger transportation is authorized by the Société.
The dispatcher must subsequently, at the intervals prescribed by government regulation, obtain a reproduction of those documents.
2019, c. 18, s. 88.
89. The registered dispatcher must send the Commission and the Minister, according to the form and content and at the intervals the latter determines by regulation, the information concerning the starting points and destinations of the trips provided by the drivers to whom the dispatcher provides services.
A dispatcher receiving the data transmitted in accordance with section 21 must, without delay, transmit it to the recipients referred to in the first paragraph of section 72.
2019, c. 18, s. 89.
90. The Commission must strike off the registration of a dispatcher that so requests.
The Commission may also, on its own initiative, strike off the registration of a dispatcher that contravenes this Act.
Before striking off a dispatcher’s registration on its own initiative, the Commission must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the dispatcher in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 90.
CHAPTER VII
FARES APPLICABLE TO TRIPS AND OTHER FEES
2019, c. 18, c. VII.
91. No qualified driver may require a customer to pay, in addition to the fare calculated in accordance with this chapter, any fees other than those that may be prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 91.
92. The fare for a trip requested by any means other than the means referred to in section 93, including when the qualified driver was hailed in the street or the trip was requested from person to person, is calculated in accordance with the rates established by the Commission.
2019, c. 18, s. 92.
93. The fare may only be calculated according to the rates established by the Commission unless the processing of the trip request is made by a technological means that does not require human intervention and allows the person requesting the trip to be informed of the maximum fare in writing and to agree to it prior to the qualified driver being notified of the trip request.
2019, c. 18, ss. 93 and 302; 2019, c. 18, s. 93.
94. A fare calculated in accordance with section 93 may in no case be less than the amount paid to the driver, for the trip made, by any person other than the client or the passenger.
In addition, a fare so calculated may not exceed the price obtained by applying a rate determined by the Minister from among the rates fixed by the Commission under the second paragraph of section 95, multiplied by a multiplier, not exceeding three, prescribed by regulation of the Minister,
(1)  if the trip is made in a territory and during a period determined by the Minister and if, in the Minister’s opinion, a situation occurs in the territory that causes a major traffic or public transit disruption; or
(2)  in any other situation the Minister may determine by regulation.
The Minister must, without delay, publish any decision the Minister makes under the second paragraph on the Minister’s department’s website and send a copy to every registered dispatcher and transportation system operator concerned.
The Minister may, in the cases and on the conditions the Minister determines, delegate to any department personnel member he or she designates the powers conferred on the Minister by the second paragraph, except the power to make a regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 94.
95. The Commission establishes the applicable rates for remunerated passenger transportation by automobile after a public hearing.
The Commission fixes a basic rate that applies throughout Québec. It may also fix special rates that may vary according to the service territories it determines, the nature of the transportation concerned and the day or the time of day the transportation is offered.
The fixing of rates for remunerated passenger transportation by automobile must be preceded by a notice published in a daily newspaper inviting interested persons to intervene. The rates fixed must be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec and on the Commission’s website.
2019, c. 18, s. 95.
96. The Commission’s rates must be fixed in such a manner that the fare is calculated according to one or more of the following methods: with a taximeter, by zone, by the hour or by fraction of an hour, with an odometer or by any other method that the Commission determines by regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 96.
97. Despite section 92, a fare may be agreed upon with a customer, even if it differs from the rates established by the Commission, if the parties enter into a contract in writing, a reproduction of which is kept in the automobile or at the establishment of the owner of the qualified automobile or the dispatcher. In addition, the parties must comply with the conditions applicable to the entering into of such a contract that are prescribed by regulation of the Commission.
2019, c. 18, s. 97.
98. A qualified driver must display in full view of passengers in the automobile used to offer remunerated passenger transportation a document detailing the rules according to which the maximum fare is determined by a technological means referred to in section 93.
The driver is nevertheless exempt from doing so when the dispatcher or the transportation service operator who provides such means publishes the document on their website or mobile application.
2019, c. 18, ss. 98 and 302; 2019, c. 18, s. 98.
99. A dispatcher who makes available to the public a means to distribute trip requests among qualified drivers must, when fares are calculated otherwise than in accordance with the rates established by the Commission, ensure that such means is in conformity with section 93.
2019, c. 18, s. 99.
100. No one may make available to the public any technological means referred to in section 93 unless the drivers providing trips requested through such means are qualified drivers or the transportation services are exempt under Chapter XVI; in the latter case, the fare quoted to the customer through that means must be in conformity with that chapter.
2019, c. 18, s. 100.
CHAPTER VIII
ANNUAL FEES, INSURANCE CONTRIBUTIONS AND DUTIES FOR MAINTAINING AUTHORIZATIONS
2019, c. 18, c. VIII.
101. The Société determines, by regulation, the fees necessary to maintain an authorization it has granted to an authorized driver. The Société determines, in the same manner, the fees and the insurance contribution necessary to maintain an authorization it has granted for an authorized automobile. In the case of an authorization granted to a driver, the fees are payable on the date and at the intervals prescribed by section 64; in the case of an authorization relating to an automobile, the fees and contribution are payable on the date and at the intervals prescribed by a government regulation. The regulation specifies the other collection conditions for the fees and, if applicable, for the contribution.
The fees payable to maintain the authorization relating to an automobile that is adapted may be less than the fees to maintain the authorization relating to an automobile that is not. The same may be true of the fees payable for an automobile that is propelled solely by an electric motor, including an automobile whose motor is supplied by a hydrogen fuel cell, or another mode of propulsion that emits no pollutant, and whose only element that emits a pollutant is the automobile’s air conditioner.
2019, c. 18, s. 101.
102. The Government determines, by regulation, the duties payable annually to maintain an authorization granted for a transportation system by the Commission.
The regulation specifies the date on which the duties are payable and the other collection conditions. The duties payable to maintain the authorization when automobiles registered with the system operator are adapted may be less than the duties to maintain the authorization relating to a system in which no registered automobile is adapted. The same may be true of the duties payable for registered automobiles that are propelled solely by an electric motor, including automobiles whose motor is supplied by a hydrogen fuel cell, or another mode of propulsion that emits no pollutant, and whose only element that emits a pollutant is the automobile’s air conditioner.
2019, c. 18, s. 102.
103. The fees payable to maintain the authorizations granted by the Société are payable to the Société, while the duties payable to maintain authorizations granted by the Commission are payable to the Commission.
2019, c. 18, s. 103.
CHAPTER IX
INSPECTION, INVESTIGATION, AUTOMOBILE SEIZURE, PERMIT SUSPENSION AND IMMUNITY
2019, c. 18, c. IX.
DIVISION I
INSPECTION
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
104. Any peace officer may act as an inspector to ascertain compliance with this Act.
The Minister or the Commission may, for that purpose, authorize any other person to act as an inspector.
2019, c. 18, s. 104.
105. An inspector may, in the exercise of inspection functions,
(1)  enter, at any reasonable time, the establishment of the owner of a qualified automobile, a transportation system operator, a dispatcher or a keeper of a register;
(2)  stop an automobile used on a public highway if the inspector has reasonable grounds to believe that the automobile is being used to offer remunerated passenger transportation and inspect it; and
(3)  require any person present to provide any information relating to the application of this Act and to communicate, for examination or reproduction, any relevant document.
Any person having custody, possession or control of such documents must, on request, communicate them to the inspector and facilitate their examination.
2019, c. 18, s. 105.
106. An inspector may, in a request sent by registered mail or by personal service, require any person to communicate any information or document relating to the application of this Act to the inspector, by registered mail or by personal service, within a reasonable time specified by the inspector.
2019, c. 18, s. 106.
107. Inspectors must, on request, identify themselves and exhibit the document attesting to their capacity or, in the case of peace officers, show their badge.
2019, c. 18, s. 107.
DIVISION II
INVESTIGATION
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
108. Any peace officer may investigate any matter relating to the application of this Act.
The Minister or the Commission may, for that purpose, authorize any other person to act as an investigator.
2019, c. 18, s. 108.
109. In the course of an investigation into an offence under this Act, a judge of the Court of Québec or a presiding justice of the peace, within the limits provided by law and specified in the justice’s deed of appointment, may, on an ex parte application following an information laid in writing and under oath by an investigator, order a person, other than the person under investigation,
(1)  to communicate information, or to produce documents, or reproductions of them certified by affidavit to be true reproductions; or
(2)  to prepare and communicate a document that is based on existing documents or information.
The order must require the documents or information to be communicated within the time, at the place and in the form specified and given to the person named in the order.
Before making an order, the judge must be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe
(1)  that an offence under this Act is being or has been committed;
(2)  that the documents or information will afford evidence respecting the commission of the offence; and
(3)  that the person who is the subject of the order has possession or control of the documents or information.
The order may contain any terms and conditions that the judge considers appropriate, including terms and conditions to protect lawyers’ and notaries’ professional secrecy.
Where the judge who makes the order or any other judge having jurisdiction to make such an order is satisfied, on an ex parte application made on the basis of an affidavit submitted by the investigator in support of the application, that the interests of justice warrant the granting of the application, the judge may vary or revoke the order or set a new time limit.
Every reproduction of a document communicated under this section, on proof by affidavit that it is a true reproduction, is admissible in evidence in any proceeding and has the same probative force as the original document would have if it had been proved in the ordinary way.
2019, c. 18, s. 109.
DIVISION III
AUTOMOBILE SEIZURE AND LICENCE SUSPENSION
2019, c. 18, Div. III.
110. Inspectors and investigators may immediately seize an automobile if they have reasonable grounds to believe that it is being used or has been used to commit an offence
(1)  under subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of section 172, until the court having jurisdiction or a judge thereof authorizes its release with security; or
(2)  under any other provision of this Act, and that the person who used or is using the automobile could abscond, until the court having jurisdiction or a judge thereof authorizes its release with or without security.
The security required under subparagraphs 1 and 2 of the first paragraph is equal to the amount of the fine prescribed for the offence. Article 321 of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1) applies, with the necessary modifications, to the security.
A person who seizes an automobile has custody of it, at the owner’s expense, until a court having jurisdiction declares it confiscated or orders that it be returned to its owner. The judge who makes such an order may subject the return of the automobile to certain conditions.
In the case of a subsequent offence under subparagraph a of paragraph 1 of section 172 of which the defendant is found guilty or deemed to be found guilty, the judge must make an order, with the conditions the judge determines, to ensure that the automobile is not used for a period of 30 days for a second offence and 90 days for a subsequent offence.
2019, c. 18, s. 110.
111. An inspector who has reasonable grounds to believe that a person is contravening subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 172 must immediately suspend, on behalf of the Société, for a period of seven days,
(1)  the licence referred to in section 61 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) that the person holds; or
(2)  if the person does not hold such a licence, the person’s right to obtain one.
The suspension period is increased to 30 days for a second offence and 90 days for a subsequent offence in the case of a person who was found guilty of an offence under subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 172 during the 10 years before the suspension.
Sections 202.6.1 and 202.7 of the Highway Safety Code apply in the case of a suspension under this section, with the necessary modifications.
2019, c. 18, s. 111.
112. In the case of a person whose licence or right to obtain a licence has been suspended in accordance with section 111, the inspector must immediately seize the automobile and impound it on behalf of the Société and at the owner’s expense for a period equivalent to the period of the suspension.
Sections 209.3 to 209.10 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) apply, with the necessary modifications, to the seizure.
2019, c. 18, s. 112.
113. A person whose licence or right to obtain a licence has been suspended in accordance with section 111 may have the suspension lifted by a judge of the Court of Québec acting in chambers in civil matters after the person establishes that he or she did not contravene subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 172.
The second paragraph of section 209.11 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) applies, with the necessary modifications, to service on the Société of the application to lift the suspension. In addition, section 209.12 of that Code applies to that application.
2019, c. 18, s. 113.
114. The owner of the seized automobile may, on the authorization of a judge of the Court of Québec acting in chambers in civil matters, recover the automobile
(1)  if the owner was not the driver of the automobile and could not reasonably have foreseen that the driver of the automobile would contravene subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 172; or
(2)  if the owner was the driver of the automobile and establishes that he or she did not contravene subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 172.
If the person concerned in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph obtains release from seizure, the Société lifts the suspension of the licence or of the right to obtain a licence imposed under section 111.
The second paragraph of section 209.11 and sections 209.11.1 to 209.22.3 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) apply, with the necessary modifications.
2019, c. 18, s. 114.
115. The suspension of a driver’s licence or of the right to obtain one under section 111 constitutes a penalty for the purposes of sections 105 and 106 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2).
2019, c. 18, s. 115.
DIVISION IV
IMMUNITY
2019, c. 18, Div. IV.
116. Inspectors and investigators may not be prosecuted for acts in good faith in the exercise of their functions.
2019, c. 18, s. 116.
CHAPTER X
WITHDRAWAL FROM OPERATION, SUSPENSION AND CANCELLATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS AND STRIKING OFF OF REGISTRATIONS
2019, c. 18, c. X.
DIVISION I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
117. Cancellation of the driver’s licence of a qualified driver in accordance with the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2), in a case where no restricted licence is issued in accordance with section 118 of that Code, entails cancellation, without formality, of the authorization granted to the driver by the Société and is grounds for the striking off of the driver’s registration with the operator of an authorized transportation system.
Similarly, suspension of the driver’s licence of a qualified driver in accordance with that Code entails suspension, without formality, for the same length of time of the authorization granted to the driver by the Société and is grounds for the suspension of the driver’s registration with the operator of an authorized transportation system.
Loss of the right to maintain a qualified automobile in operation, ordered under the Highway Safety Code, entails cancellation, without formality, of the authorization granted by the Société for that automobile and is grounds for the striking off of the automobile’s registration with the operator of an authorized transportation system.
2019, c. 18, s. 117.
118. The Société may, when it is informed that a qualified driver or the owner of a qualified automobile endangers the safety of passengers, pedestrians, cyclists and other road users by contravening, in particular, section 58 or the first or second paragraph of section 74, withdraw a qualified automobile owner’s right to maintain it in operation.
Following an investigation, the Société may also, when it becomes aware that a qualified driver has claimed a rate higher than that fixed by the Commission or that fixed by a technological means referred to in section 93 for a fare, suspend the authorization it has granted to the driver or, in the case of a driver registered with a transportation system operator, report its investigation to the Commission, which may order the operator to suspend that driver’s registration for the period the Commission determines. The operator must suspend the registration as soon as the notice of suspension is received from the Commission.
The Commission may, on its own initiative or on request, order the Société to withdraw, from a person who has offered remunerated passenger transportation by automobile in contravention of section 7, the right to maintain in operation the automobile used for that purpose.
2019, c. 18, s. 118.
119. Before making a decision under the first or second paragraph of section 118, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the driver in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 119.
120. The Commission may, when it is informed or becomes aware that a qualified driver is charged with an offence referred to in section 11, investigate to determine whether the situation compromises the safety of users and, where applicable, order the Société or the transportation system operator to suspend, as the case may be, the authorization the Société granted to the driver or the driver’s registration with the operator. The Société or the operator must suspend the driver’s authorization or registration as soon as a notice of suspension is received from the Commission.
2019, c. 18, s. 120.
DIVISION II
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AUTHORIZATIONS GRANTED BY THE SOCIÉTÉ
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
§ 1.  — Authorizations granted to drivers
2019, c. 18, Sd. 1.
121. An authorization that is granted by the Société to a driver is cancelled by operation of law if the driver is found guilty of an offence referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 of section 11.
In proceedings instituted against an authorized driver for such an offence, the prosecutor must apply for confiscation of the permit issued under section 18.
The judge pronouncing the finding of guilt must order that the permit be confiscated and returned to the Société; the judge must notify the driver. The notice may be given at the time of or after the sentencing. In any case, the date of confiscation is deemed to be the date of the finding of guilt.
The clerk of the court must, without delay, send notice of the confiscation of the permit to the Société.
2019, c. 18, s. 121.
122. The Société cancels an authorization it has granted to a driver when the driver is in any of the following situations:
(1)  the driver offered remunerated passenger transportation by automobile despite the suspension of the authorization;
(2)  his or her driver’s licence is subject to the condition of driving a road vehicle mandatorily equipped with an alcohol ignition interlock device approved by the Société;
(3)  the driver is found guilty of an offence referred to in paragraph 3 of section 11;
(4)  the driver so requests in writing, provided the authorization is not suspended; or
(5)  any other situation that may be prescribed by government regulation.
In the situation referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, the Société must, before cancelling the authorization, consult the judicial record evaluation committee referred to in section 17 with respect to the relation between the offence and the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct to be a driver of an automobile for the purpose of offering passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 122.
123. The Société may suspend or cancel an authorization it has granted to a driver when the driver is in any of the following situations:
(1)  the driver has filed a false declaration or document, or false information, or has distorted or has failed to report a material fact for the granting of the authorization; or
(2)  the driver has failed to comply with an obligation incumbent on him or her under this Act, except in the cases referred to in sections 121 and 122.
2019, c. 18, s. 123.
124. Before cancelling or suspending an authorization it has granted to a driver, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the driver in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 124.
125. When an authorization granted by the Société to a driver is suspended for a longer period than the one prescribed by government regulation or cancelled, the driver must return the permit issued under section 18 to the Société.
If the driver refuses or fails to comply, the Société may ask a peace officer to confiscate the permit. The driver must then immediately hand over the permit to the peace officer who demands it.
2019, c. 18, s. 125.
126. Drivers who use an authorized automobile they do not own to offer remunerated passenger transportation must, if their authorization is suspended or cancelled by the Société, notify the owner without delay according to the conditions prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 126.
§ 2.  — Authorizations in respect of automobiles
2019, c. 18, Sd. 2.
127. The Société cancels an authorization it has granted in respect of an automobile when its owner is in any of the following situations:
(1)  the owner used or permitted the use of the authorized automobile to offer remunerated passenger transportation despite the suspension of that authorization;
(2)  the owner so requests in writing, provided the authorization is not suspended; or
(3)  any other situation that may be prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 127.
128. The Société may suspend or cancel an authorization it has granted in respect of an automobile if
(1)  the owner has filed a false declaration or document, or false information, or has distorted or has failed to report a material fact for the granting of the authorization; or
(2)  the owner of the automobile has failed to comply with an obligation incumbent on the owner under this Act, except in the cases referred to in section 127.
2019, c. 18, s. 128.
129. Before cancelling or suspending the authorization it has granted in respect of an automobile, the Société must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) to the automobile owner in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 129.
130. When an authorization granted by the Société for an automobile is suspended or cancelled, the automobile owner must return the document issued under section 26 to the Société.
If the owner refuses or fails to comply, the Société may request that a peace officer confiscate the document. The owner must then immediately hand over the document to the peace officer who demands it.
2019, c. 18, s. 130.
DIVISION III
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO REGISTRATIONS WITH TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OPERATORS
2019, c. 18, Div. III.
131. The transportation system operator must, every two years following the registration of a driver, obtain from the latter any of the documents referred to in subparagraph 1 of section 47.
2019, c. 18, s. 131.
132. The transportation system operator must strike off a driver’s registration on being informed that the driver has been found guilty of an offence referred to in paragraph 1 or 2 of section 11, on the refusal or failure of the driver to submit to the operator any of the documents that the operator must obtain from the driver under section 131, or on being informed of other grounds for striking off the registration.
The operator must suspend a driver’s registration on being informed of grounds for suspending it. It must, during the suspension period, ensure that the driver cannot, as part of the system, offer remunerated passenger transportation.
The operator must suspend an automobile’s registration in the cases provided for in section 79. It must also strike off an automobile’s registration on being informed of grounds for striking it off. The operator must ensure that such an automobile cannot, as part of the system, be used to offer remunerated passenger transportation.
2019, c. 18, s. 132.
133. A registered driver who becomes aware of grounds for the suspension or the striking off of his or her registration must, without delay, inform the transportation system’s operator in writing.
The same applies to the owner of a registered automobile who becomes aware of grounds for the striking off of the automobile’s registration.
2019, c. 18, s. 133.
DIVISION IV
PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO AUTHORIZATIONS GRANTED FOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
2019, c. 18, Div. IV.
134. The Commission may suspend or cancel an authorization it has granted for a transportation system if
(1)  the insurance contribution referred to in section 50 or the annual duties payable to maintain the authorization have not been paid within the time prescribed by government regulation;
(2)  a person referred to in paragraph 2 of section 28 has been found guilty of a criminal offence referred to in section 29;
(3)  the operator or such a person has filed a false declaration or document, or false information, or has distorted or has failed to report a material fact for the granting of the authorization;
(4)  the operator has been found guilty of the offence under subparagraph c of paragraph 1 of section 172;
(5)  the operator has otherwise failed to comply with one of its obligations under this Act;
(6)  the operator does not comply with an enforceable decision of the Commission; or
(7)  the Commission considers that the public interest warrants it.
The Commission may also suspend or cancel such an authorization where, because of the number, repetitive nature or seriousness of the offences under the provisions of this Act committed by drivers registered with the system operator or the owners of automobiles registered with that operator, it considers that the operator has not taken the necessary measures to monitor such persons and automobiles.
Instead of suspending or cancelling an authorization, the Commission may, for the period it determines, prohibit a transportation system operator from registering any driver or automobile.
In the situation referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph, the Commission must, before making its decision to suspend or cancel the authorization, consult the judicial record evaluation committee referred to in section 17 with respect to the relation between the offence and the aptitudes required and appropriate conduct for participating in the operation of a transportation system.
2019, c. 18, s. 134.
See transitional provisions, 2019, c. 18, s. 290.
135. When the Commission suspends or cancels the authorization it has granted for a transportation system, the operator must, within the time prescribed by the Commission, notify the drivers registered with the operator. The drivers must cease to offer any remunerated passenger transportation by automobile as part of the system on the date fixed by the Commission.
In addition, the operator must, as the case may be, cease to carry out the functions of dispatcher for the transportation system or ensure that the supplier whose services the operator retains ceases to carry out those functions for the system.
2019, c. 18, s. 135.
136. Before making a decision under section 134, the Commission must notify the prior notice prescribed by section 5 of the Act respecting administrative justice to the system operator in writing and grant the latter at least 15 days to submit observations.
2019, c. 18, s. 136.
137. The Commission cancels the authorization it has granted for a transportation system where the operator requests it in writing and the following conditions are met:
(1)  the authorization is not suspended;
(2)  the operator has notified the drivers registered with it and the latter have, as of the date of the request, ceased to offer remunerated passenger transportation as part of that system;
(3)  the operator has paid the duties payable under this Act; and
(4)  any other condition that may be prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 137.
See transitional provisions, 2019, c. 18, s. 290.
CHAPTER XI
OTHER POWERS OF THE COMMISSION AND THE SOCIÉTÉ
2019, c. 18, c. XI.
138. The Commission may, for the purposes of this Act, promptly take one or more of the following measures:
(1)  inspect and seal taximeters or authorize, for the territory it determines, a person to do so on its behalf and set the fees payable;
(2)  determine the territories for which an automobile need not be equipped with a taximeter, without the use of a technological means referred to in section 93 being required;
(3)  if it considers it necessary for the public interest, appoint, for the period it determines and at a transportation system operator’s expense, a director who may, alone, exercise the powers of the operator’s board of directors; and
(4)  appoint, for the period it determines and at a transportation system operator’s expense, a supervisor who reports to it on the transportation system’s operation.
The decisions of the Commission are published on its website.
2019, c. 18, s. 138.
139. The decisions of the Commission, other than a decision made under section 95, may not be reviewed under sections 17.2 to 17.4 of the Transport Act (chapter T-12).
2019, c. 18, s. 139.
140. The Commission and the Société must make available to each other any information they require in order to make a decision in a matter that is before them, respectively, under this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 140.
141. The Commission and the Société may enter into any administrative agreement necessary for the purposes of this Act with any minister or body.
They may, in particular, enter into an administrative agreement with the Minister of Justice allowing them, on the terms and conditions provided for in the agreement, to act as mandataries to recover the fines covered by the agreement.
2019, c. 18, s. 141.
CHAPTER XII
REGULATORY POWERS
2019, c. 18, c. XII.
142. In addition to the regulatory powers conferred on it by this Act, the Government may, by regulation,
(1)  establish any rule applicable to the collection of duties or other sums payable under this Act, and to the interest and penalties payable in case of non-payment;
(2)  determine the terms and conditions for filing authorization applications under this Act and the terms applicable to cancellation applications, including the use of specific forms;
(3)  determine the terms and conditions for sending any document required by this Act and those for replacing a permit, other document or accessory issued under this Act, in particular if it has been damaged, lost or stolen, as well as those for updating it;
(4)  prescribe the fees payable for any formality prescribed by regulation;
(5)  establish the terms and conditions for manufacturing, operating and maintaining taximeters, and require that taximeters be inspected and sealed at the intervals the Government specifies;
(6)  establish any measure to increase the proportional number of qualified automobiles that are either automobiles propelled solely by an electric motor, referred to in the second paragraph of sections 101 and 102, or low-emission motor vehicles within the meaning of the regulations made for the purposes of the Act to increase the number of zero-emission motor vehicles in Québec in order to reduce greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions (chapter A-33.02), including, in particular, determining the terms and conditions according to which only either of those two types of automobiles may be authorized or registered;
(7)  require, for the activities or classes of activities the Government determines, that a person provide a financial guarantee with respect to the proper performance of the obligations incumbent on the person under this Act;
(8)  determine the registers a person or group must keep, prescribe the conditions for keeping and preserving them, for sharing the information they contain and for access to them, and determine their form and content; and
(9)  prescribe the documents and information that must be provided to the passengers, the clientele, the Minister, the Commission, a public body exercising a jurisdiction conferred on it by law as regards shared transportation, or the Société by any person or group carrying on an activity governed by this Act, and determine their form and content as well as the conditions relating to their preservation and transmission.
Despite subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph, the fees payable for the formalities prescribed by government regulation that must be observed with the Société are prescribed by a regulation made by the Société.
2019, c. 18, s. 142.
143. The Minister may, by regulation and after consulting with the Société, authorize the implementation of pilot projects aimed at testing the use of autonomous vehicles, within the meaning of section 4 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2), to offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile and study its efficiency or define special standards applicable to that area.
The Minister may, within the scope of such pilot projects, authorize any person or group to offer remunerated passenger transportation using autonomous vehicles or to set up a passenger transportation system using such vehicles in compliance with standards and rules prescribed by the Minister that differ from those set out in this Act or any other Act whose administration falls under the Minister’s responsibility, for the purpose of increasing the safety of users, improving the quality of the transportation offered or facilitating the rollout of such vehicles. Such a pilot project must also foster fairness in relation to other modes of remunerated passenger transportation by automobile and compliance with the applicable privacy protection rules. The third paragraph of section 633.1 of the Highway Safety Code applies to such projects.
A pilot project established under this section is conducted for a period of up to three years, which the Minister may extend by up to two years if the Minister considers it necessary. The Minister may modify or terminate a pilot project at any time. The Minister may also determine the provisions of the regulation whose violation constitutes an offence and determine the minimum and maximum amounts for which the offender is liable, which may not be less than $200 or more than $3,000.
2019, c. 18, s. 143.
CHAPTER XIII
SPECIAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN MODES OF TRANSPORTATION
2019, c. 18, c. XIII.
DIVISION I
TAXI
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
144. For the purposes of this Act, a taxi is a qualified automobile used to offer remunerated passenger transportation for which the trip fare is calculated, in any circumstances or at the customer’s request, in accordance with the rates established by the Commission under Chapter VII.
No person may represent an automobile as a taxi or use a name that includes the term “taxi” to designate an enterprise providing passenger transportation by automobile without making a taxi available to the public in accordance with the minimum service standards prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 144.
145. The owner of a taxi must equip the taxi with a domelight whose characteristics are prescribed by government regulation. The regulation may prescribe domelight installation rules.
No other automobile may be equipped with such a domelight.
If an automobile is equipped with a domelight, the driver is not required to affix the accessory referred to in section 54 to the automobile. Likewise, neither the Société nor the transportation system operator is, despite sections 26 and 51, required to provide the owner of the automobile with that accessory.
2019, c. 18, s. 145.
146. No taxi driver may refuse a trip on the grounds that it was not requested using a particular means of distributing trip requests.
A person who requests a trip using a technological means that allows him or her to be informed of the maximum fare in writing and to agree to it prior to a qualified driver being notified of the trip request may not, after having agreed to that fare, ask that the fare for the trip made by the taxi be calculated in accordance with the rates established by the Commission under Chapter VII.
2019, c. 18, s. 146.
147. Only a qualified driver who uses a taxi to offer transportation may accept a trip request when the driver is hailed, when the trip request is otherwise made to the driver person to person or when it is made orally by telephone.
2019, c. 18, s. 147.
148. An institution to which the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) applies may not grant a contract for the transportation of beneficiaries unless only taxis within the meaning of section 144 are used to provide such transportation, except if provided by bus or minibus.
2019, c. 18, s. 148.
DIVISION II
SHARED TRANSPORTATION
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
149. In a territory in which a municipality, an intermunicipal board or any other public body exercises the jurisdiction conferred on it by law as regards shared transportation, remunerated passenger transportation by automobile referred to in subparagraph 2 of the second paragraph of section 61 may be offered only if
(1)  the public body has entered into an agreement with the owner of an authorized automobile or a representative of such owners or with a transportation system operator; and
(2)  any automobile used to offer such transportation is an authorized automobile belonging to that owner or to the owners thus represented or is an automobile registered with that operator.
Despite any contrary provision of this Act, the fare for transportation thus offered is the fare prescribed by by-law of the public body or by the agreement referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph or the fare calculated in accordance with the rate established by the by-law or agreement.
2019, c. 18, s. 149.
DIVISION III
CARPOOLING OFFERED AS PART OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
2019, c. 18, Div. III.
150. A transportation system operator may register a person and an automobile without the conditions set out in sections 47 and 49 being met if that person acts as the driver of the automobile for the sole purpose of offering carpooling and the automobile is not used for any other purposes as part of that system.
2019, c. 18, s. 150.
151. For the purposes of section 150, carpooling means remunerated passenger transportation by automobile that meets the following conditions:
(1)  the automobile used is a passenger vehicle within the meaning of section 4 of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2);
(2)  the driver decides on the final destination, and taking passengers on board is incidental to the driver’s reason for going there;
(3)  the driver makes no more than two trips per day not exceeding a total of 13 hours, unless the starting point and final destination of all trips the driver makes in the same day are located in the territory of the same metropolitan community, in which case the driver makes no more than four trips per day not exceeding, cumulatively, 100 km; and
(4)  the automobile is used for remunerated passenger transportation only to make trips referred to in paragraph 3.
A trip referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph begins when the first passenger boards the vehicle and ends when the last passenger leaves the vehicle. Such a trip does not end even if all the passengers leave the vehicle at the same stop provided a new passenger boards the vehicle at that stop.
2019, c. 18, s. 151.
DIVISION IV
TRANSPORTATION BY ADAPTED AUTOMOBILE
2019, c. 18, Div. IV.
152. A transportation system operator must take reasonable measures to make an adapted automobile available as soon as possible to respond to a trip request requiring the use of an adapted automobile. The same applies to a registered dispatcher.
2019, c. 18, s. 152.
153. An adapted automobile may be used to offer remunerated passenger transportation only if it is driven by a qualified driver who has completed advanced training on the transportation of persons with disabilities and passed an examination on that training.
The conditions and content of the training and of the examination are established by regulation of the Minister.
2019, c. 18, s. 153.
154. When offering remunerated passenger transportation by adapted automobile, qualified drivers must have in their possession the certificate showing that they have passed the examination referred to in the first paragraph of section 153.
However, qualified drivers are not required to have the certificate in their possession when it is available, in accordance with the terms and conditions established by the regulation provided for in section 62, to persons acting as inspectors or investigators for the purposes of this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 154.
155. The owner of an adapted automobile may not, to offer remunerated passenger transportation, entrust the care or control of the automobile to a driver who does not meet the conditions set out in section 153.
A transportation system operator with which an adapted automobile is registered may not register a driver who does not meet the conditions set out in section 153 as a driver of that automobile.
Likewise, a registered dispatcher may not provide services to the driver of an adapted automobile who does not meet the conditions set out in section 153.
2019, c. 18, s. 155.
156. The Government may prescribe by regulation, for the territories it determines, any measure to facilitate the rollout and availability of automobiles adapted for persons with disabilities.
2019, c. 18, s. 156.
CHAPTER XIV
ELECTRIFICATION OF REMUNERATED PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION BY AUTOMOBILE
2019, c. 18, c. XIV.
157. The fleet of automobiles used in Québec to offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile and registered with the operator of an authorized transportation system or used by drivers to whom a dispatcher provides services must be composed of low-emission automobiles in the following proportions:
(1)  at least 30% as of 2030;
(2)  at least 50% as of 2035; and
(3)  100% as of 2050.
For the purposes of this chapter, low-emission automobiles means automobiles propelled solely by an electric motor that are referred to in the second paragraph of section 101 or 102, and low-emission motor vehicles within the meaning of the regulations made under the Act to increase the number of zero-emission motor vehicles in Québec in order to reduce greenhouse gas and other pollutant emissions (chapter A-33.02).
2019, c. 18, s. 157.
158. To achieve the proportions set out in section 157, the Commission sets, for each authorized operator, a target to be achieved regarding the number of automobiles registered with the operator that are low-emission automobiles.
The Commission also sets, for each registered dispatcher, a target to be achieved regarding the number of low-emission automobiles used by drivers to whom the dispatcher provides services.
2019, c. 18, s. 158.
159. The Commission may hold a hearing before setting the targets referred to in section 158.
The Commission sets the targets taking into account regional characteristics and the availability of the necessary material resources.
2019, c. 18, s. 159.
160. The first targets set by the Commission apply as of 10 October 2022.
The Commission must subsequently review the targets every three years, and sets new targets if it considers it necessary.
2019, c. 18, s. 160.
161. Operators of an authorized transportation system and registered dispatchers must, every year, at the time and according to the procedure and content prescribed by government regulation, send a report to the Commission on achievement of the target applicable to them under section 158.
Achievement of the target is measured on the basis of the average number of automobiles registered with the operator, or the number of automobiles used by drivers to whom a dispatcher provides services, over the 12-month period covered by the report.
2019, c. 18, s. 161.
162. The Commission may impose a monetary administrative penalty on an operator or a dispatcher for each year in which the operator or dispatcher does not achieve the applicable target and for each automobile short of that target.
The amount of the penalty is determined by government regulation. It must be greater than $500 but may not exceed $5,000.
Division II of Chapter XVII is, in all other respects, applicable.
2019, c. 18, s. 162.
163. The monetary administrative penalties imposed by the Commission are credited to the Electrification and Climate Change Fund established under section 15.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs (chapter M-30.001).
2019, c. 18, s. 163; I.N. 2020-12-10.
CHAPTER XV
QUÉBEC-WIDE ADVISORY PANEL ON REMUNERATED PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION BY AUTOMOBILE
2019, c. 18, c. XV.
164. A Québec-wide advisory panel on remunerated passenger transportation by automobile to be known as the Table de concertation nationale du transport rémunéré de personnes par automobile is established.
The purpose of the panel is to foster concerted action between the main stakeholders in the remunerated passenger transportation by automobile industry as regards various commercial practices prevailing in the industry including, in particular those affecting the development of human resources, and to advise the Minister on the regulation of the industry and on the measures designed to develop it, in particular by presenting recommendations on which a consensus has been reached.
The panel may also study the impacts of this Act on the various territories, in particular as regards the number of vehicles.
2019, c. 18, s. 164.
165. The panel is composed of a president, appointed by the Government, and of not more than nine other members appointed by the Minister to represent the qualified drivers, the dispatchers and the transportation system operators as well as users.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, the Government identifies by order the associations and groups that will be invited by the Minister to submit the names of two persons from among whom the Minister will choose the member who is to represent their interests. In addition to the qualified drivers, the associations and groups identified by the Government must, as a minimum, make it possible for the persons referred to in that paragraph to be represented.
The panel is set up within six months after the coming into force of this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 165.
CHAPTER XVI
TRANSPORTATION EXEMPTED FROM CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS
2019, c. 18, c. XVI.
166. Passenger transportation by automobile may, even if it is remunerated, be offered without the automobile being qualified or being driven by a qualified driver and without the fare being calculated in accordance with Chapter VII in the following cases and on the following conditions:
(1)  transportation offered by a volunteer driver under the control of a humanitarian organization recognized by the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux as part of one of its support or assistance programs, if
(a)  it is offered for a financial contribution limited, regardless of the number of passengers aboard, to the expenses incurred in using the automobile as set by the organization’s board of directors, the total amount of which may not exceed the amount determined by government regulation, and
(b)  the organization maintains a permanent register of trips which, for each trip provided, identifies the driver, the client and any accompanying person, and indicates the date, the starting point, the distance travelled and the destination;
(2)  transportation offered by a social economy enterprise funded by a government program to offer assistance services to clients such as seniors, persons with disabilities or who are ill or persons with decreasing independence, provided that the enterprise maintains a permanent register of trips which, for each trip provided, identifies the driver, the client and any accompanying person, and indicates the date, the starting point, the distance travelled and the destination; and
(3)  transportation offered to an impaired person by a volunteer driver under the control of an organization or a non-profit legal person or by a driver remunerated by an enterprise, if
(a)  the impaired person’s automobile is also driven or taken to the destination,
(b)  the transportation is provided by the volunteer driver with no intent of deriving pecuniary gain, and
(c)  the organization or non-profit legal person or the enterprise concerned maintains a permanent register of rides which, for each ride provided, identifies the driver, the customer and the accompanying person, and indicates the date, the starting point, the distance travelled and the destination; and
(4)  transportation provided for community assistance purposes to help or accompany a person, provided that the transportation is offered for a financial contribution limited, regardless of the number of passengers aboard, to the expenses incurred in using the automobile, the total amount of which may not exceed the amount determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 166.
167. A person authorized to act as inspector under section 104 has the powers set out in sections 105 and 106 with respect to an organization, a non-profit legal person or an enterprise offering transportation contemplated in this chapter.
2019, c. 18, s. 167.
168. The provisions of this Act, except section 167, do not apply to passenger transportation by automobile in the following cases:
(1)  student transportation provided or organized under the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14) or the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1);
(2)  courtesy transportation offered by a driver remunerated by an enterprise, but offered free of charge to its customers;
(3)  passenger transportation offered for baptisms, weddings or funerals or passenger transportation using antique automobiles over 30 years old;
(4)  transportation by ambulance; or
(5)  carpooling that meets the conditions set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 of section 151 and any other passenger transportation where the sum paid for transportation offered using the same automobile does not exceed the amount prescribed by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 168.
CHAPTER XVII
PENAL PROVISIONS AND MONETARY ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES
2019, c. 18, c. XVII.
DIVISION I
PENAL PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
§ 1.  — Offences and penalties
2019, c. 18, Sd. 1.
169. The following are guilty of an offence and are liable to a fine of $250 to $750 in the case of a natural person and $500 to $1,500 in any other case:
(1)  transportation system operators who contravene section 48 or 51;
(2)  qualified drivers who contravene section 53 or 54, the second paragraph of section 55 or any of sections 56, 60 or 98;
(2.1)  qualified drivers who offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile without having in their possession a reproduction of the authorization issued by the person in charge of a place determined by regulation of the Minister;
(3)  authorized drivers who contravene section 63;
(4)  registered drivers who contravene section 67; and
(5)  anyone who contravenes a provision of this Act if no other penalty is provided.
2019, c. 18, s. 169; 2023, c. 10, s. 58.
170. The following are guilty of an offence and are liable to a fine of $500 to $1,500 in the case of a natural person and $1,000 to $3,000 in any other case:
(1)  qualified drivers who
(a)  use, to offer remunerated passenger transportation, an automobile that does not comply with one of the conditions set out in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 20, or
(b)  contravene section 57, the first paragraph of section 58, the second paragraph of section 58, the first paragraph of section 59 or the first paragraph of section 153;
(2)  registered drivers who contravene section 68 or 69;
(3)  owners of a qualified automobile who
(a)  contravene the first paragraph of section 72 or the first paragraph of section 73, in the case of a minor defect, or
(b)  contravene the third or fourth paragraph of section 73, the third paragraph of section 74, section 76 or the first paragraph of section 155;
(4)  operators that contravene the second paragraph of section 155; and
(5)  dispatchers who contravene the third paragraph of section 155.
2019, c. 18, s. 170.
171. The following are guilty of an offence and are liable to a fine of $1,000 to $5,000 in the case of a natural person and $2,000 to $10,000 in any other case:
(1)  qualified drivers who
(a)  contravene any of subparagraphs 2 to 4 of the first paragraph of section 58, in the case of a major defect,
(b)  contravene any of sections 61, 91 or 146,
(b.1)  offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile whose starting point is a place determined by regulation of the Minister without having been authorized to do so by the person in charge of the place,
(c)  offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile, other than transportation provided for in an agreement referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 149, for a fare that is not calculated in accordance with the rates established by the Commission, unless the fare has been established in circumstances described in section 93 or 97, or
(d)  offer remunerated passenger transportation by automobile provided for in an agreement referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 149 for a fare other than the fare prescribed in accordance with the second paragraph of that section;
(2)  authorized drivers who contravene section 64, the first paragraph of section 125 or section 126;
(3)  registered drivers or owners of a registered automobile who contravene section 133;
(4)  owners of a qualified automobile who
(a)  contravene the first paragraph of section 73, in the case of a major defect,
(b)  contravene subparagraph 1 of the second paragraph of section 73, in the case of a minor defect, or
(c)  contravene subparagraph 2 of that paragraph;
(5)  owners of an authorized automobile who contravene the first paragraph of section 130;
(6)  transportation system operators that contravene the second paragraph of section 82 and dispatchers who contravene the second paragraph of section 89; and
(7)  anyone who prepares or forwards a mechanical inspection certificate referred to in the third paragraph of section 73 or a report referred to in the second paragraph of section 75 knowing that it contains false or misleading information, or falsifies such a certificate or report, in the case of a minor defect.
2019, c. 18, s. 171; 2023, c. 10, s. 59.
172. The following are guilty of an offence and are liable to a fine of $2,500 to $25,000 in the case of a natural person and $5,000 to $50,000 in any other case:
(1)  anyone who
(a)  offers remunerated passenger transportation by automobile without using a qualified automobile,
(b)  offers remunerated passenger transportation by automobile without being a qualified driver or holding a driver’s licence of the appropriate class,
(c)  offers to lease an automobile with the services of a driver who is not a qualified driver,
(d)  hinders or attempts to hinder, in any way, the exercise of the functions of an inspector or investigator, particularly by deceiving the inspector or investigator by concealment or misrepresentation or, in the case of an inspector, by refusing to provide to the inspector information or a document the inspector is entitled to require or examine, or by concealing or destroying a document or property the inspector is entitled to require or examine,
(e)  enters false or misleading information in the register referred to in section 52 or that referred to in section 61.1, shares such information or provides access to it,
(f)  prepares or sends a mechanical inspection certificate referred to in the third paragraph of section 73 or a report referred to in the second paragraph of section 75 knowing that it contains false or misleading information, or falsifies such a certificate or report, in the case of a major defect, or
(g)  contravenes section 52.1, the second paragraph of section 144 or section 147;
(2)  owners of a qualified automobile who contravene subparagraph 1 of the second paragraph of section 73, in the case of a major defect;
(3)  transportation system operators who contravene any of sections 47, 49, 50 or 132;
(4)  dispatchers who contravene section 88 or 99; and
(5)  anyone who, despite the suspension of his or her driver’s licence or of the right to obtain one under section 111, drives an automobile while under a penalty.
2019, c. 18, s. 172; 2023, c. 10, s. 60.
173. A dispatcher who contravenes the first paragraph of section 85, anyone who contravenes section 100 or a legal person who contravenes section 135 is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 to $50,000 in the case of a natural person and $10,000 to $100,000 in any other case.
2019, c. 18, s. 173.
174. The Government may determine the regulatory provisions made under this Act whose violation constitutes an offence and renders the offender liable to a fine the minimum and maximum amounts of which are determined by the Government.
The penalties determined under the first paragraph may, in particular, vary according to the seriousness of the offence, without however exceeding $50,000 in the case of a natural person and $100,000 in any other case.
2019, c. 18, s. 174.
175. The minimum and maximum fines prescribed by this Act are doubled for a second offence and tripled for a subsequent offence.
In addition, if an offender commits an offence under this Act after having previously been found guilty of any such offence and if, without regard to the amounts prescribed for a second or subsequent offence, the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the first offence was equal to or greater than the minimum fine prescribed for the second offence, the minimum and maximum fines become, if the prosecutor so requests, those prescribed in the case of a second or subsequent offence.
This section applies to prior findings of guilt pronounced in the two-year period preceding the second offence or, if the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the prior offence is that prescribed in section 173, in the five-year period preceding the second offence. Fines for a third or subsequent offence apply if the penalty imposed for the prior offence was the penalty for a second or subsequent offence.
2019, c. 18, s. 175.
176. If an offence under this Act is committed by a director or officer of a legal person or of another group, regardless of its juridical form, the minimum and maximum fines that would apply in the case of a natural person are doubled.
2019, c. 18, s. 176.
177. If an offence under this Act continues for more than one day, it constitutes a separate offence for each day it continues.
2019, c. 18, s. 177.
178. Anyone who, by an act or an omission, helps or, by encouragement, advice, consent, authorization or order, induces another person to commit an offence under this Act commits an offence and is liable to the same penalty as that prescribed for the offence they helped or induced the person to commit.
2019, c. 18, s. 178.
§ 2.  — Proof and procedure
2019, c. 18, Sd. 2.
179. In any penal proceedings relating to an offence under this Act,
(1)  proof that transportation was offered to the public or provided by a qualified driver is sufficient, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, to establish proof of remunerated transportation;
(2)  an extract from a register kept in accordance with section 52 is, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, sufficient evidence of the facts it contains if the extract is accompanied by an affidavit, of either the inspector or the employee of the Société or the Commission who prepared the extract, attesting that it is an exact reproduction of the information shared or to which the inspector or employee had access under the second paragraph of that section;
(3)  proof that the offence was committed by an agent, mandatary or employee of any party is sufficient to establish that it was committed by that party, unless the party establishes that it exercised due diligence, taking all necessary precautions to prevent the offence; and
(4)  the following persons are deemed to be agents of the transportation system operator:
(a)  drivers registered with the operator, when they offer passenger transportation through the system,
(b)  owners of automobiles registered with the operator when they are used to offer such transportation, and
(c)  the dispatcher or keeper of the register whose services the operator retains.
2019, c. 18, s. 179.
180. If a legal person or an agent, mandatary or employee of a legal person, partnership or association without legal personality commits an offence under this Act, the directors of the legal person, partnership or association are presumed to have committed the offence unless it is established that they exercised due diligence, taking all necessary precautions to prevent the offence.
For the purposes of this section, in the case of a partnership, all partners, except special partners, are presumed to be directors of the partnership unless there is evidence to the contrary appointing one or more of them, or a third person, to manage the affairs of the partnership.
2019, c. 18, s. 180.
181. In determining the penalty, the judge may take into account aggravating factors such as
(1)  the seriousness of the harm or the risk of harm to human safety;
(2)  the intentional, negligent or reckless nature of the offence;
(3)  the foreseeable character of the offence or the failure to follow recommendations or warnings to prevent it;
(4)  the offender’s attempts to cover up the offence or failure to try to mitigate its consequences;
(5)  the increase in revenues or decrease in expenses that the offender intended to obtain by committing the offence or by omitting to take measures to prevent it; and
(6)  the offender’s failure to take reasonable measures to prevent the commission of the offence or mitigate its consequences despite the offender’s ability to do so.
A judge who, despite the presence of an aggravating factor, decides to impose the minimum fine must give reasons for the decision.
2019, c. 18, s. 181.
182. On an application made by the prosecutor and submitted with the statement of offence, the judge may impose on the offender, in addition to any other penalty, a further fine not exceeding the financial benefit realized by the offender as a result of the offence, even if the maximum fine has been imposed.
2019, c. 18, s. 182.
183. When determining a fine higher than the minimum fine prescribed by this Act, or when determining the time within which an amount must be paid, the judge may take into account the offender’s inability to pay, provided the offender furnishes proof of assets and liabilities.
2019, c. 18, s. 183.
184. The prescription period for penal proceedings for offences under this Act is the longer of
(1)  three years from the date the offence was committed; and
(2)  two years from the date on which the inspection or investigation that led to the discovery of the offence began.
In the cases referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph, the certificate of the inspector or investigator constitutes, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, conclusive proof of the date on which the inspection or investigation began.
2019, c. 18, s. 184.
185. Division III of Chapter XIII of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1) applies, with the necessary modifications, to the recovery of an amount owed by a qualified driver or the owner of a qualified automobile who is found guilty of an offence under this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 185.
DIVISION II
MONETARY ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTIES
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
§ 1.  — Failures to comply
2019, c. 18, Sd. 1.
186. A monetary administrative penalty of $450 may be imposed by the Commission on a transportation system operator who,
(1)  in contravention of the first paragraph of section 80, fails to send the Commission the report provided for in that section;
(2)  in contravention of section 81, fails to send the Commission the information and documents referred to in that section; or
(3)  in contravention of section 82, fails to send the Commission or the Minister the information referred to in that section.
The penalties prescribed by the first paragraph also apply if the information or documents concerned are incomplete, or are not sent before the specified time limit.
2019, c. 18, s. 186.
187. If a failure to comply for which a monetary administrative penalty may be imposed continues for more than one day, it constitutes a new failure for each day it continues.
2019, c. 18, s. 187.
188. The Government may, in a regulation made under this Act, specify that a failure to comply with the regulation may give rise to a monetary administrative penalty. It may also confer on the Société the power to impose such a penalty.
The regulation may define the conditions for applying the penalty and set forth the amounts or the methods for determining them. The amounts may, in particular, vary according to the seriousness of the failure to comply, without exceeding $5,000.
2019, c. 18, s. 188.
§ 2.  — Notice of non-compliance and imposition
2019, c. 18, Sd. 2.
189. In the event of a failure to comply referred to in subdivision 1, a notice of non-compliance may be notified to the party responsible for the failure urging that the necessary measures be taken immediately to remedy it.
Such a notice must mention that the failure may give rise to a monetary administrative penalty.
2019, c. 18, s. 189.
190. The imposition of a monetary administrative penalty is prescribed by two years from the date of the failure to comply.
2019, c. 18, s. 190.
191. The monetary administrative penalty for a failure to comply with a provision of this Act may not be imposed on the party responsible for the failure if a statement of offence has already been served on the person for a failure to comply with the same provision on the same day, based on the same facts.
For the purposes of this chapter, party responsible for a failure to comply means the person or group on whom or which a monetary administrative penalty is imposed or may be imposed, as the case may be, for a failure to comply referred to in subdivision 1.
2019, c. 18, s. 191.
192. A monetary administrative penalty is imposed on the party responsible for a failure to comply by the notification of a notice of claim.
The notice must state
(1)  the amount of the claim;
(2)  the reasons for it;
(3)  the time from which it bears interest;
(4)  the right, under section 193, to obtain a review of the decision to impose the penalty and the time limit for exercising that right; and
(5)  the right to contest the review decision before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec and the time limit for bringing such a proceeding.
The notice must also include information on the procedure for recovery of the amount claimed. The party responsible for the failure to comply must also be informed that failure to pay the amount owing may give rise to the suspension or cancellation of any authorization granted under this Act and, if applicable, that the facts on which the claim is founded may result in penal proceedings.
Unless otherwise provided, the amount owing bears interest at the rate determined under the first paragraph of section 28 of the Tax Administration Act (chapter A-6.002), from the 31st day after notification of the notice.
Notification of a notice of claim interrupts the prescription provided for in the Civil Code with regard to the recovery of an amount owing.
2019, c. 18, s. 192.
§ 3.  — Review
2019, c. 18, Sd. 3.
193. Within 30 days after notification of the notice of claim, the party responsible for a failure to comply may apply in writing to the Commission for a review of the decision to impose a monetary administrative penalty.
The persons responsible for the review are designated by the Commission; they must not come under the same administrative authority as the persons responsible for imposing such penalties.
2019, c. 18, s. 193.
194. The application for review must be dealt with promptly. After giving the applicant an opportunity to present observations and produce any documents to complete the record, the person responsible for the review renders a decision on the basis of the record, unless the person considers it necessary to proceed in some other manner.
2019, c. 18, s. 194.
195. The review decision must be written in clear and concise terms, with reasons given, must be notified to the applicant and must state the applicant’s right, under section 196, to contest the decision before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec and the time limit for bringing such a proceeding.
If the review decision is not rendered within 30 days after receipt of the application or, if applicable, within the time granted to the applicant to present observations or documents, the interest provided for in the fourth paragraph of section 192 on the amount owing ceases to accrue until the decision is rendered.
2019, c. 18, s. 195.
196. A review decision that confirms a monetary administrative penalty may be contested before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec by the debtor concerned, within 30 days after notification of the review decision.
When rendering its decision, the Administrative Tribunal of Québec may make a ruling with respect to interest accrued on the penalty while the matter was pending before it.
2019, c. 18, s. 196.
§ 4.  — Solidarity and hypothec
2019, c. 18, Sd. 4.
197. If the party responsible for a failure to comply has defaulted on payment of a monetary administrative penalty, its directors and officers are solidarily liable with that party for the payment of the penalty, unless they establish that they exercised due care and diligence to prevent the failure.
2019, c. 18, s. 197.
198. The payment of a monetary administrative penalty is secured by a legal hypothec on the movable and immovable property of the party responsible for a failure to comply that is required to pay a monetary administrative penalty and, as applicable, of each of its directors and officers who are solidarily liable with that party for the payment of the penalty.
2019, c. 18, s. 198.
§ 5.  — Register
2019, c. 18, Sd. 5.
199. The Commission keeps a register relating to monetary administrative penalties it imposes.
The register must contain at least the following information:
(1)  the date the penalty was imposed;
(2)  the date and nature of the failure to comply, and the legislative provisions under which the penalty was imposed;
(3)  if the penalty was imposed on a legal person, its name and the address of its head office or one of its establishments or of the business establishment of one of its agents;
(4)  if the penalty was imposed on a natural person, the person’s name, the name of the municipality in whose territory the person resides and, if the failure occurred during the ordinary course of business of the person’s enterprise, the enterprise’s name and contact information;
(5)  the amount of the penalty imposed;
(6)  where applicable, the date of receipt of an application for review and the date and conclusions of the decision;
(7)  where applicable, the date a proceeding is brought before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec and the date and conclusions of the decision rendered by the Tribunal, as soon as the Commission is made aware of the information;
(8)  where applicable, the date a proceeding is brought against the decision rendered by the Administrative Tribunal of Québec, the nature of the proceeding and the date and conclusions of the decision rendered by the court concerned, as soon as the Commission is made aware of the information; and
(9)  any other information the Commission considers of public interest.
The information contained in the register is public information as of the time the decision imposing the penalty becomes final. The Commission must promptly publish the register on its website.
2019, c. 18, s. 199.
CHAPTER XVIII
CLAIMS AND RECOVERY
2019, c. 18, c. XVIII.
200. Any amount owing under this Act, other than an insurance contribution and fees payable to the Société and other than a monetary administrative penalty, is also subject to the notice of claim provided for in section 192, with the necessary modifications. However, the following particulars must be substituted for those mentioned in subparagraphs 4 and 5 of the second paragraph of that section:
(1)  the right, under section 201, to contest the claim before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec; and
(2)  the time limit for bringing such a proceeding.
Unless otherwise provided, the amount owing bears interest at the rate determined under the first paragraph of section 28 of the Tax Administration Act (chapter A-6.002), from the 31st day after notification of the notice.
The notice is notified to the debtor by the Commission.
2019, c. 18, s. 200.
201. A notice of claim other than one relating to a monetary administrative penalty may be contested before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec by the debtor concerned within 30 days of the notification.
When rendering its decision, the Administrative Tribunal of Québec may make a ruling with respect to interest accrued on the penalty while the matter was pending before the Tribunal.
2019, c. 18, s. 201.
202. The Société and the Commission may enter into a payment agreement with their respective debtors, even when the amount owing is a monetary administrative penalty.
Such an agreement, or the payment of the amount owing, does not constitute, for the purposes of penal proceedings or any other administrative penalty under this Act, an acknowledgement of the facts giving rise to it.
2019, c. 18, s. 202.
203. If the amount owing is not paid in its entirety or the payment agreement is not adhered to, the Société or Commission, as the case may be, may issue a recovery certificate on the expiry of,
(1)  when the amount owing is a monetary administrative penalty,
(a)  the time for applying for a review of the Commission’s decision to impose the penalty,
(b)  the time for contesting the review decision before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec, or
(c)  30 days after the final decision of the Tribunal confirming all or part of the decision to impose the penalty; and
(2)  in any other case,
(a)  the time for contesting the notice of claim before the Tribunal, or
(b)  30 days after the final decision of the Tribunal confirming all or part of the notice of claim.
However, a recovery certificate may be issued before the expiry of the periods of time referred to in the first paragraph if the Société or the Commission is of the opinion that the debtor is attempting to evade payment.
The recovery certificate must state the debtor’s name and address and the amount of the debt.
2019, c. 18, s. 203.
204. Once a recovery certificate has been issued, any refund owed to a debtor by the Minister of Revenue may, in accordance with section 31 of the Tax Administration Act (chapter A-6.002), be withheld for payment of the amount due referred to in the certificate.
Such withholding interrupts the prescription provided for in the Civil Code with regard to the recovery of an amount owing.
2019, c. 18, s. 204.
205. On the filing of the recovery certificate at the office of the competent court, together with a reproduction of the final decision stating the amount of the debt, the decision becomes enforceable as if it were a final judgment of that court not subject to appeal, and has all the effects of such a judgment.
2019, c. 18, s. 205.
206. The debtor is required to pay a recovery charge in the cases, under the conditions and in the amount determined by government regulation.
2019, c. 18, s. 206.
207. For the purposes of sections 202 to 204 and 206, debtor means, in addition to the person required to pay an amount owing under this Act, the party responsible for a failure to comply that is required to pay a monetary administrative penalty and, if applicable, each of its directors and officers who are solidarily liable with that party for the payment of the penalty.
2019, c. 18, s. 207.
CHAPTER XIX
PROCEEDING BEFORE THE ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL OF QUÉBEC
2019, c. 18, c. XIX.
208. In addition to a decision referred to in section 196 or a notice referred to in section 201, any individual decision made by the Société or by the Commission may be contested by the person or group concerned before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec.
The proceeding must be brought within 30 days of notification of the contested decision.
2019, c. 18, s. 208.
209. Except for a decision referred to in section 196 or a notice referred to in section 201, the Société and the Commission must, when making an individual decision, notify it to the person or group and inform the person or group of his, her or its right to contest it before the Administrative Tribunal of Québec.
2019, c. 18, s. 209.
210. The proceeding does not stay execution of the Société’s or the Commission’s decision, unless, on a motion heard and judged by preference, a member of the Administrative Tribunal of Québec orders otherwise because of the urgency of the situation or because of the risk of serious and irreparable injury.
If the Tribunal issues such an order, the proceeding is heard and judged by preference.
Despite the first paragraph, a proceeding to contest a decision referred to in section 196 stays execution of the decision, subject to interest accruing.
2019, c. 18, s. 210.
211. When assessing the facts or the law, the Administrative Tribunal of Québec may not substitute its assessment of the public interest for that made by the Commission under this Act to reach its decision.
2019, c. 18, s. 211.
CHAPTER XX
DELEGATION TO A BODY AND JURISDICTION OF VILLE DE MONTRÉAL
2019, c. 18, c. XX.
212. The Government may delegate the application of all or some of the provisions of Chapters II, IV, IX and Divisions I and II of Chapter X and of the provisions of Chapter XI relating to the Société, as well as any power necessary for their application, except that of making a regulation under those provisions, to the following bodies:
(1)  a municipality;
(2)  a metropolitan community;
(3)  a band council or Indian reserve;
(4)  an intermunicipal board;
(5)  a public transit authority; or
(6)  the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain.
Ville de Montréal has, for the whole territory of the urban agglomeration of Montréal, jurisdiction to exercise the powers that may be delegated to such a body. It may also delegate all or some of them to the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain, to the extent that they enter into an agreement for that purpose by which the city renounces the exercise of that jurisdiction. The city designates a member of the judicial record evaluation committee, unless it delegates that power to the Autorité.
The delegation instrument prescribes, where applicable, the manner in which the documents and information necessary for the delegation made under this section are to be transferred or shared.
2019, c. 18, s. 212.
213. The Société and, as the case may be, Ville de Montréal or a delegate body may enter into an agreement concerning the application of the provisions of the Highway Safety Code (chapter C-24.2) specified in the agreement in order to grant the city or the body, as the case may be, the supplementary powers necessary to exercise its powers of control under this Act. The agreement must be approved by the Government to come into force.
As of the date the order is published in the Gazette officielle du Québec, an employee of the city or of the body party to the agreement who is entrusted with the application of this Act by the city or body is deemed to be an inspector entrusted with the application of the provisions of the Highway Safety Code specified in the agreement.
Sections 112, 587.1, 597, 598 and 649 of the Highway Safety Code apply, with the necessary modifications, to an agreement entered into under the first paragraph.
2019, c. 18, s. 213.
214. The Société must notify Ville de Montréal or, as the case may be, the delegate body of the suspension or cancellation of the driver’s licence of a driver authorized by either of them, unless the driver has been issued a restricted licence. On receiving the notice, the city or body must suspend or cancel the authorization.
2019, c. 18, s. 214.
215. Penal proceedings may be instituted by Ville de Montréal or, as the case may be, the delegate body for any offence under a provision of this Act committed in the territory where the city or body has jurisdiction, except such an offence committed by a transportation system operator.
The fine belongs to the city or body that instituted the proceedings.
Proceedings referred to in the first paragraph may be instituted before any municipal court having jurisdiction in the territory in which the offence was committed. The costs relating to proceedings instituted before a municipal court belong to the municipality to which the court is attached, except any part of the costs remitted by the collector to another prosecuting party under article 345.2 of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1) and any costs remitted to the defendant under article 223 of that Code.
Moreover, the city or body may impose any monetary administrative penalty that the Société may impose. In such a case, the city or body keeps the sums from any monetary administrative penalty it has so imposed.
2019, c. 18, s. 215; 2021, c. 15, s. 92.
216. Subject to the second paragraph of section 215, a delegate body keeps all the sums it collects under the provisions whose application has been delegated to it in accordance with the first paragraph of section 212.
Likewise, Ville de Montréal keeps the sums collected in exercising the powers conferred on it by the second paragraph of that section.
Despite the first and second paragraphs, a body and the city remit the insurance contributions that they collect under those provisions to the Société.
2019, c. 18, s. 216.
CHAPTER XXI
AMENDING PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, c. XXI.
Automobile Insurance Act
217. (Amendment integrated into c. A-25, s. 151.3.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 217.
218. (Amendment integrated into c. A-25, s. 195.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 218.
219. (Amendment integrated into c. A-25, s. 197).
2019, c. 18, s. 219.
Charter of Ville de Montréal, metropolis of Québec
220. (Amendment integrated into c. C-11.4, Schedule C).
2019, c. 18, s. 220.
221. (Amendment integrated into c. C-11.4, Schedule C).
2019, c. 18, s. 221.
222. (Amendment integrated into c. C-11.4, Schedule C).
2019, c. 18, s. 222.
223. (Amendment integrated into c. C-11.4, Schedule C).
2019, c. 18, s. 223.
Highway Safety Code
224. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 4).
2019, c. 18, s. 224.
225. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 21).
2019, c. 18, s. 225.
226. (Omitted).
2019, c. 18, s. 226.
227. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, ss. 90 and 91).
2019, c. 18, s. 227.
228. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 95.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 228.
229. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 109).
2019, c. 18, s. 229.
230. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 121).
2019, c. 18, s. 230.
231. (Omitted).
2019, c. 18, s. 231.
232. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 189).
2019, c. 18, s. 232.
233. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 202.2.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 233.
234. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 202.2.1.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 234.
235. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 209.2).
2019, c. 18, s. 235.
236. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 216).
2019, c. 18, s. 236.
237. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 396).
2019, c. 18, s. 237.
238. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 397).
2019, c. 18, s. 238.
239. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 401).
2019, c. 18, s. 239.
240. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 440.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 240.
241. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 519.65).
2019, c. 18, s. 241.
242. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 519.67).
2019, c. 18, s. 242.
243. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 521).
2019, c. 18, s. 243.
244. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, ss. 540, 541, 542 and 543).
2019, c. 18, s. 244.
245. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, s. 627).
2019, c. 18, s. 245.
Act respecting administrative justice
246. (Amendment integrated into c. J-3, Schedule IV).
2019, c. 18, s. 246.
Tobacco Control Act
247. (Amendment integrated into c. L-6.2, s. 2).
2019, c. 18, s. 247.
Act respecting the Ministère des Transports
248. (Not in force).
2019, c. 18, s. 248.
249. (Not in force).
2019, c. 18, s. 249.
250. (Not in force).
2019, c. 18, s. 250.
Act to protect persons with regard to activities involving firearms
251. (Amendment integrated into c. P-38.0001, s. 1).
2019, c. 18, s. 251.
252. (Amendment integrated into c. P-38.0001, s. 2).
2019, c. 18, s. 252.
Consumer Protection Act
253. (Amendment integrated into c. P-40.1, s. 156).
2019, c. 18, s. 253.
Act respecting the Réseau de transport métropolitain
254. (Amendment integrated into c. R-25.01, s. 10).
2019, c. 18, s. 254.
Act respecting transportation services by taxi
255. (Omitted).
2019, c. 18, s. 255.
Act respecting the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec
256. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 2).
2019, c. 18, s. 256.
257. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 17).
2019, c. 18, s. 257.
258. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 17.4).
2019, c. 18, s. 258.
259. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 17.5).
2019, c. 18, s. 259.
260. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 17.6).
2019, c. 18, s. 260.
261. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 17.7).
2019, c. 18, s. 261.
262. (Amendment integrated into c. S-11.011, s. 23.0.7).
2019, c. 18, s. 262.
Act respecting public transit authorities
263. (Amendment integrated into c. S-30.01, s. 4).
2019, c. 18, s. 263.
264. (Amendment integrated into c. S-30.01, s. 81).
2019, c. 18, s. 264.
265. (Amendment integrated into c. S-30.01, s. 83).
2019, c. 18, s. 265.
Transport Act
266. (Amendment integrated into c. T-12, s. 2).
2019, c. 18, s. 266.
267. (Amendment integrated into c. T-12, s. 36).
2019, c. 18, s. 267.
268. (Amendment integrated into c. T-12, s. 48.19).
2019, c. 18, s. 268.
269. (Amendment integrated into c. T-12, s. 48.39).
2019, c. 18, s. 269.
Act to improve the performance of the Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec, to better regulate the digital economy as regards e-commerce, remunerated passenger transportation and tourist accommodation and to amend various legislative provisions
270. (Amendment integrated into 2018, c. 18, s. 59).
2019, c. 18, s. 270.
271. (Amendment integrated into 2018, c. 18, s. 81).
2019, c. 18, s. 271.
Regulation respecting insurance contributions
272. (Amendment integrated into c. A-25, r. 3.3, s. 2).
2019, c. 18, s. 272.
273. (Amendment integrated into c. A-25, r. 3.3, s. 4).
2019, c. 18, s. 273.
274. (Amendments integrated into c. A-25, r. 3.3, ss. 30 to 32).
2019, c. 18, s. 274.
Regulation respecting road vehicle registration
275. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 29, s. 2.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 275.
276. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 29, s. 2.1.1).
2019, c. 18, s. 276.
Regulation respecting licences
277. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 8).
2019, c. 18, s. 277.
278. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 15).
2019, c. 18, s. 278.
279. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 16).
2019, c. 18, s. 279.
280. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 24).
2019, c. 18, s. 280.
281. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 28).
2019, c. 18, s. 281.
282. (Omitted).
2019, c. 18, s. 282.
283. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 29).
2019, c. 18, s. 283.
284. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 30).
2019, c. 18, s. 284.
285. (Amendment integrated into c. C-24.2, r. 34, s. 42).
2019, c. 18, s. 285.
Regulation to amend the Taxi Transportation Regulation, in the area of electrification of taxi transportation in the territory of the island of Montréal
286. (Amendment integrated into c. S-6.01, r. 3).
2019, c. 18, s. 286.
CHAPTER XXII
TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, c. XXII.
DIVISION I
DUES
2019, c. 18, Div. I.
287. Dues of $0.90 per trip must be paid by the customer, in addition to the fare. The dues do not apply to trips made as part of a contract referred to in section 148, made under an agreement referred to in section 149 or made in connection with a transportation service exempted under section 166, nor to the carpooling referred to in section 150.
The dues referred to in the first paragraph are allocated to the financing of a financial assistance program established by the Minister of Transport to compensate, to the extent provided for by the program, the persons or groups holding, on 19 March 2019, a taxi owner’s permit issued before 15 November 2000.
In addition, the Minister must, without delay, establish a financial assistance program to offer additional financial assistance to persons with special personal support needs.
Anyone who makes available to the public the technological means referred to in section 93 is required to see to it that the means allows the person requesting a trip to be informed of the amount of the dues to be paid before agreeing to the maximum fare for the trip.
For the purposes of this section, a trip begins when the first passenger boards the vehicle and ends when the last passenger leaves the vehicle.
2019, c. 18, s. 287; 2021, c. 15, s. 31.
288. A person carrying on a taxi business within the meaning of section 1 of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax (chapter T-0.1) who is required to be registered in accordance with section 407 or 407.1 of that Act or a person referred to in section 288.1 must, as a mandatary of the Minister of Revenue and in accordance with the conditions determined by government regulation,
(1)  collect the dues when collecting the fare and keep an account of the dues; and
(2)  render an account to the Minister of the dues that the person has collected or should have collected in a reporting period and, on or before the time at which the person must render an account to the Minister for the period, remit to the Minister the amount of the dues.
A person is required to render an account even if no trip giving rise to dues is made in a reporting period.
The dues collected are credited to the Land Transportation Network Fund, established by paragraph 1 of section 12.30 of the Act respecting the Ministère des Transports (chapter M-28), after deduction of any refunds and collection expenses.
2019, c. 18, s. 288; 2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.1. The person to whom the first paragraph of section 288 refers is a transportation system operator, or a service supplier of such an operator, that collects the fares electronically on behalf of a business operator and that entered into an agreement referred to in section 37.
The system operator or service supplier, as the case may be, that acts on behalf of a person who carries on a taxi business and that person are solidarily liable for the obligations set out in section 288.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.2. A person who is required to collect the dues under section 288 and who is registered under Division I of Chapter VIII of Title I of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax (chapter T-0.1) is registered by the Minister in relation to that obligation. The Minister must assign a registration number to the person and notify the person of the registration number and the effective date of the registration.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.3. A service supplier of a transportation system operator referred to in section 288.1 that is not registered under Division I of Chapter VIII of Title I of the Act respecting the Québec sales tax (chapter T-0.1) is required to be registered in relation to the supplier’s obligation to collect dues under section 288.
An application for registration is to be filed with the Minister in the prescribed form containing prescribed information before the day on which a fare is collected electronically by the supplier on behalf of a business operator for the first time.
The Minister may register the supplier applying for registration and, for that purpose, the Minister must assign a registration number to the supplier and notify the supplier of the registration number and the effective date of the registration.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
Where this section applies in respect of a service supplier of a transportation system operator that entered into an agreement referred to in section 37 of that Act before 1 October 2021, that section 288.3 is to be read as if “the day on which a fare is collected electronically by the supplier on behalf of a business operator for the first time” in the second paragraph were replaced by “1 November 2021”. (See 2021, c. 15, s. 37)
288.4. If the Minister has reason to believe that a service supplier that is not registered under section 288.3 is required to be registered and that the supplier has failed to apply for registration as and when required under that section, the Minister may send a written notice that the Minister intends to register the supplier under section 288.6.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.5. A service supplier that receives the notice provided for in section 288.4 must apply for registration under section 288.3 or establish to the satisfaction of the Minister that the supplier is not required to be registered.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.6. The Minister may register a service supplier if, after 30 days after the day on which the notice provided for in section 288.4 was sent, the supplier has not applied for registration and the Minister is not satisfied that the supplier is not required to be registered, in which case the Minister must assign a registration number to the supplier and notify the supplier of the registration number and the effective date of the registration.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.7. The Minister may cancel the registration of a person if the Minister is satisfied that the registration is not required. Where the Minister cancels a registration, the Minister must notify the person of the cancellation and its effective date.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.8. A person who carries on a taxi business for which the fare of trips made by that person is no longer being collected on that person’s behalf, in its entirety, by a person referred to in section 288.1 must so inform the Minister in order to be registered in relation to the person’s obligation to collect dues under section 288.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.9. Any regulation made under section 288 comes into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on any later date set in the regulation.
Such a regulation may also, once published and if it so provides, take effect from a date prior to its publication but not prior to 1 October 2021.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
288.10. The first paragraph of section 287 and sections 288 to 288.9 constitute a fiscal law within the meaning of the Tax Administration Act (chapter A-6.002) and, for the purposes of that Act, the dues provided for in the first paragraph of section 287 are deemed to be duties.
2021, c. 15, s. 32.
289. The collection of the dues ceases on the date of publication of a notice of the Minister of Transport in the Gazette officielle du Québec stating that the dues have generated proceeds corresponding to the cost of the programs referred to in section 287, including the average cost of government borrowings during the period in which the dues were collected, from which an amount of 250 million dollars is subtracted, which amount corresponds to the sum reserved in the Budget Speech delivered on 21 March 2019 to help the taxi industry in its transition.
2019, c. 18, s. 289.
290. This Act is to be read, from 10 October 2020 until the date of publication of the notice provided for in section 289,
(1)  as if the following subparagraph were inserted after subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 134:
(1.1)  the dues payable under section 287 have not been paid within the time prescribed by government regulation;”;
(2)  as if “and dues” were inserted after “the duties” in paragraph 3 of section 137.
2019, c. 18, s. 290.
291. The Act respecting the Ministère des Transports is to be read, from 10 October 2019,
(1)  until the date preceding the date on which the sums that are credited to the Land Transportation Network Fund established by paragraph 1 of section 12.30 of the Act respecting the Ministère des Transports and that are allocated to a financial assistance program established by the Minister of Transport to compensate, to the extent provided for by the program, the persons or groups holding, on 19 March 2019, a taxi owner’s permit issued before 15 November 2000, will be exhausted,
(a)  as if subparagraph i of paragraph 1 of section 12.30 were replaced by the following subparagraph:
(i)  a financial assistance program established by the Minister of Transport to compensate, to the extent provided for by the program, the persons or groups holding, on 19 March 2019, a taxi owner’s permit issued before 15 November 2000;”;
(b)  as if the fifth paragraph of section 12.32.1 were replaced by the following paragraph:
The sums referred to in paragraph 2.12 of section 12.32, as it read on the date preceding the date of publication of the notice provided for in section 289, are allocated to financing the measures referred to in subparagraph i of paragraph 1 of section 12.30.”.
(2)  until the date preceding the date of publication of the notice provided for in section 289,
(a)  as if paragraph 2.12 of section 12.32 were replaced by the following paragraph:
(2.12)  the sums collected as dues under section 287 of the Act respecting remunerated passenger transportation by automobile (2019, chapter 18);”.
(b)  as if “, as it read on the date preceding the date of publication of the notice provided for in section 289” in the fifth paragraph of section 12.32.1, as amended by subparagraph b of paragraph 1, were struck out.
2019, c. 18, s. 291.
DIVISION II
PERMITS
2019, c. 18, Div. II.
292. A person who, on 9 October 2020, holds a taxi driver’s permit is deemed, as of 10 October 2020, to be a driver authorized by the Société under paragraph 1 of section 8.
If, on 9 October 2020, the permit is suspended, the authorization deemed granted under the first paragraph is also suspended for the remainder of the permit suspension.
2019, c. 18, s. 292.
293. The automobile attached to a taxi owner’s permit on 9 October 2020 is deemed, as of 10 October 2020, to be an automobile authorized by the Société under paragraph 1 of section 9.
If, on 9 October 2020, the permit is suspended, the authorization deemed granted under the first paragraph is also suspended for the remainder of the permit suspension.
2019, c. 18, s. 293.
294. The Act respecting transportation services by taxi (chapter S-6.01) is to be read, from 10 October 2019 to the coming into force of section 255, as if “issued on or after 15 November 2000” in section 19 were struck out.
2019, c. 18, s. 294.
295. A hypothec that charges a taxi owner’s permit on 9 October 2019 attaches, by operation of law, to the permit holder’s right to the sums paid under the program mentioned in the first paragraph of section 287.
When two or more hypothecs that charged the same permit attach to such a right under the first paragraph, they keep the same ranking among themselves. A hypothec that charges a universality of claims, granted by the permit holder before the attachment provided for in the first paragraph, does not extend to that right.
A creditor may not enforce the hypothec that so attaches to that right against the Minister as long as the hypothec has not been set up against the Minister in the same way as an assignment of claims.
2019, c. 18, s. 295.
296. The Commission collaborates with the Société for the purposes of any transitional measures concerning the performance of their respective missions as regards passenger transportation by automobile.
To that end, they may enter into any agreement on the sharing and transfer of documents and information.
2019, c. 18, s. 296.
DIVISION III
REMUNERATED PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION SERVICES WHOSE IMPLEMENTATION IS AUTHORIZED BY CERTAIN PILOT PROJECTS
2019, c. 18, Div. III.
297. Despite section 89.1 of the Act respecting transportation services by taxi, the following pilot projects remain in force until 10 October 2020, unless the Minister terminates them before that date:
(1)  the Pilot project concerning permits and training of certain drivers providing remunerated passenger transportation on the island of Montréal (chapter S-6.01, r. 2.01);
(2)  the Pilot project to promote the use of new fully electric automobiles in the taxi transportation industry (chapter S-6.01, r. 2.1.1);
(3)  the Pilot project concerning remunerated passenger transportation services requested exclusively using a mobile application (chapter S-6.01, r. 2.3); and
(4)  the Pilot project to optimize taxi transportation services and the servicing of regional infrastructures and equipment in the territory of the Communauté métroplitaine de Québec, made by Order 2018-24 of the Minister of Transport (2018, G.O. 2, 5235A).
Until that date, the territory to which each of those pilot projects applies may not be modified. Neither may new transportation services be authorized by the Minister under section 89.1 of the Act respecting transportation services by taxi.
The first paragraph applies despite any court decision rendered after 19 March 2019 that invalidates or suspends the application of one of those pilot projects.
2019, c. 18, s. 297.
298. The holder of a taxi transportation service intermediary’s permit who is authorized to offer remunerated passenger transportation services by automobile as part of the pilot project referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 297 and who, to continue operating those services after 10 October 2020, wishes to convert them into a transportation system and become its operator, must send a notice of intention in writing to both the Minister and the Commission des transports du Québec not later than 11 August 2020 indicating the measures the holder intends to take to comply with this Act.
Such a holder of a taxi transportation service intermediary’s permit who intends to continue operating such services without converting them into a transportation system must, before the latter date, notify the drivers providing those services that they need to obtain the authorizations referred to in sections 18 and 26, respectively, if they do not hold a driver’s permit issued under the Act respecting transportation services by taxi or if they do not use an automobile attached to an owner’s permit issued under that Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 298.
299. The remunerated passenger transportation services that are the subject of a notice sent under the first paragraph of section 298 become an authorized transportation system by operation of law as of 10 October 2020. The holder of a taxi transportation service intermediary’s permit authorized to provide those services becomes, in the same manner, the system operator.
The transportation system’s service territory corresponds to the territories of the municipalities designated by the pilot project.
The operator is required to take the measures that are necessary, if such is the case, to ensure that the system is compliant with the standards applicable to it and report to the Commission in accordance with the form and content prescribed by government regulation. The operator must do so within the time prescribed by the regulation, but not later than six months after 10 October 2020.
2019, c. 18, s. 299.
DIVISION IV
OTHER TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
2019, c. 18, Div. IV.
300. The rates set by the Commission under the Act respecting transportation services by taxi, as they read before 10 October 2020, remain in force, with the necessary modifications, until they are replaced or repealed by rates fixed under section 95.
2019, c. 18, s. 300.
301. For the purposes of paragraph 6 of section 10, subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 20 and subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 28, an authorization granted under this Act also extends to a permit under the Act respecting transportation services by taxi (chapter S-6.01), as it read before 10 October 2020.
2019, c. 18, s. 301.
302. For the period from 10 October 2019 to 10 October 2020, this Act is to be read
(1)  as if “qualified driver” in section 93 were replaced by “holder of a driver’s permit”;
(2)  as if the second paragraph of section 98 were replaced by the following paragraph:
The driver is nevertheless exempt from doing so when the supplier of the means or, in the case of a driver who comes under a holder of a taxi transportation service intermediary’s permit, the holder publishes the document on their website or mobile application.”.
2019, c. 18, s. 302.
303. Any first regulation that is necessary for the purposes of this Act may have a shorter publication period than that required under section 11 of the Regulations Act (chapter R-18.1), but not shorter than 20 days. Such a regulation comes into force on 10 October 2020 despite section 17 of that Act.
Such a first regulation may prescribe any transitional measures required to carry out this Act.
2019, c. 18, s. 303.
304. The Commission des transports du Québec must, not later than 10 October 2020, make a regulation under section 48 of the Transport Act (chapter T-12) to amend the Commission’s rules of procedure so as to ensure the implementation of the provisions of this Act which concern the Commission. The regulation must come into force on that date despite section 17 of the Regulations Act (chapter R-18.1).
Despite section 11 of the Regulations Act, the regulation made under this section may not be enacted before the expiry of 20 days after its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec.
2019, c. 18, s. 304.
305. No collective agreement between a public body providing transport and its employees may restrict the power of the body to contract to provide special transportation services by taxi for persons with disabilities or to organize shared transportation by taxi.
However, no regular employee governed by a collective agreement that includes such a restriction on the power to contract of a public body providing transport may be dismissed or laid off by that body owing to a contract entered into regarding the organization of shared transportation by taxi except in the case of special transportation services by taxi for persons with disabilities.
Any dispute relating to the application or interpretation of the second paragraph may be submitted to grievance arbitration in accordance with the Labour Code (chapter C-27) as if it were a grievance.
2019, c. 18, s. 305.
306. The Minister must, not later than 31 March 2022 and subsequently at least once every five years, report to the National Assembly on the carrying out of this Act and make recommendations on the advisability of maintaining or amending its provisions.
2019, c. 18, s. 306.
307. The Minister of Transport is responsible for the administration of this Act, except the first paragraph of section 287 and sections 288 to 288.10, the administration of which falls under the responsibility of the Minister of Revenue.
2019, c. 18, s. 307; 2021, c. 15, s. 33.
308. Until 10 October 2024 or until any earlier date or dates determined by the Government, owners, drivers, operators and dispatchers are exempted from their obligations under subparagraph d of subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 20 regarding the real-time geolocation device, sections 21 and 57, subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 58 concerning the device, section 72 and the second paragraph of sections 82 and 89.
The exemption provided for in the first paragraph does not apply
(1)  if an authorized automobile must be equipped with a real-time geolocation device on 9 October 2020 in accordance with the By-law concerning taxi transportation (RCG 10-009) made by Ville de Montréal;
(2)  if an authorized automobile is used as part of the pilot project referred to in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 297; or
(3)  in regard to all trips requested from dispatchers or from transportation system operators that exercise that function, if they process trip requests exclusively by the technological means referred to in section 93.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, the dates the Government may set may vary according to the territories it determines; in such a case, the exemption ends for all automobiles whose registration holder’s address is situated in the territory determined.
2019, c. 18, s. 308.
309. Sections 270 and 271 have effect from 12 June 2018.
2019, c. 18, s. 309.
310. (Omitted).
2019, c. 18, s. 310.