C-37.2 - Act respecting the Communauté urbaine de Montréal

Section 289 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

1996-05-08

1996-01-01

1989-06-19

1985-06-20

1984-01-01

1982-03-25

0001-01-01

289. (1)  No permit may be granted by the Commission des transports du Québec to any carrier for the making of special or charter trips by autobus from one point to another within the territory of the Commission unless the applicant files, together with its application for the permit, the consent of the chairman and general manager of the Commission or of another commissioner or officer of the Commission specially authorized for such purpose by the chairman and general manager, unless the Commission des transports du Québec is of opinion that the Commission is not in a position to provide the service covered in the application for the permit.

(2)  No permit shall be granted to any carrier by the Commission des transports du Québec for the operation of a sightseeing bus service within the territory of the Commission unless the Commission des transports du Québec, after calling upon the Commission to submit to it representations which it deems proper, is of opinion that the latter does not operate and is not about to operate such a sightseeing service which adequately meets the needs referred to in the application for the permit.

(3)  No contract for the transport of schoolchildren shall be granted by any school board whose territory covers all or part of the territory of the Commission unless it has first been offered in writing to the Commission, which shall have fifteen days either to accept such contract, with or without amendment by agreement in accordance with the tariffs provided for in section 290, or to refuse such contract; the public tenders provided for in section 196 of the Education Act (chapter I-14) shall not be called for except after the Commission has refused the contract.

The contract made between the Commission and the school board may be amended by agreement of the parties subject to the approval of the Minister of Transport and the Commission des transports du Québec.

The Commission shall have jurisdiction to carry out, outside its territory, any contract which it has accepted under this section

(4)  No new permit shall be granted by the Commission des transports du Québec for the operation of a public transport service of passengers by autobus from one point to another within the territory of the Commission, unless the Commission has been called upon to submit its representations.

1969, c. 84, s. 313; 1972, c. 55, s. 135, s. 173; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1978, c. 104, s. 10; 1979, c. 72, s. 427.