C-37.2 - Act respecting the Communauté urbaine de Montréal

Section 158.5 Disposition versions

1999-06-19

158.5. The Community may regulate road service and vehicle towing in any part of its territory not covered by a regulation made by the Government for that purpose under the Act respecting the Ministère des Transports (chapter M‐28).

To regulate road service and vehicle towing, the Community may, by by-law,

(1)  require that the appropriate permit issued by the Community be held by persons operating or using a road service vehicle in its territory ;

(2)  establish classes of permits based on the classes of road service vehicles established under subparagraph 6 ;

(3)  determine the qualifications and knowledge required of applicants for a permit, the term and other conditions applying to the issue and renewal of permits, and the information and documents to be provided by applicants ;

(4)  determine the subject matter for the examinations to be taken by all permit applicants, the nature of the examinations and the pass mark ;

(5)  determine the grounds on which the issue or renewal of permits may be refused, or on which permits may be suspended or revoked ;

(6)   establish classes of road service vehicles and set out the characteristics of each class ;

(7)  prescribe, for each class of road service vehicle, the mandatory accessories, apparatus and equipment for the vehicles in that class ;

(8)  fix, according to the classes of towed vehicles it determines, the rates that may be charged by permit holders ;

(9)   prescribe the obligations of permit holders including, in particular, the manner in which permit holders are to conduct themselves when dealing with customers ;

(10)  prescribe the books, registers and records to be kept by permit holders.

1999, c. 21, s. 2.