48.33. The Commission may not issue a bus transport permit or alter the service that the holder of a bus transport permit is authorized to supply in the territory of a municipality, a group of municipalities or an intermunicipal board that organizes a public transit service, without the prior authorization of the municipality, the municipality that is the mandatary of the group of municipalities or the intermunicipal board.
If the municipality or the intermunicipal board does not indicate its refusal to the Commission within 60 days after the Commission’s application for authorization, it is deemed to have given its authorization.
This section does not apply in the case of a cancellation or reduction of service or in the case of the establishment of a new service that does not compete with the public transit service organized by the municipality, the municipality that is the mandatary of the group of municipalities or the intermunicipal board.