18. The Commission shall revoke the taxi owner’s permit of a holder who has been found guilty in the last five years of a criminal offence or an indictable offence committed in connection with the use of a permit for transportation by taxi.
The Commission shall also revoke the taxi owner’s permit of a holder if he or she(1) has not paid the prescribed annual duties payable for the renewal or maintenance of the taxi owner’s permit;
(2) engaged in a practice contrary to the public interest referred to in section 22; or
(3) used or allowed the use of the automobile attached to his or her permit while the taxi owner’s permit was suspended.
The Commission may suspend or revoke a taxi owner’s permit if the holder(1) has been found guilty in the last five years of a criminal or indictable offence related to the aptitudes and conduct required for the operation of a taxi transportation enterprise;
(2) has been found guilty in the last five years of 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); or
(3) has an interest of which notice has not been given in accordance with section 21.
No person whose taxi owner’s permit is revoked under the first or third paragraph may obtain a taxi owner’s permit before the lapse of five years after he or she was found guilty. The first and third paragraphs do not apply to an offence or an act committed before 30 June 2002.
2001, c. 15, s. 18; 2002, c. 49, s. 6; 2009, c. 17, s. 4; 2018, c. 192018, c. 19, s. 631.