S-6.01 - Act respecting transportation services by taxi

Section 26 Disposition versions

2018-10-17

26. No person may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit

(1)  unless the person passes an examination on the knowledge required, the formalities, procedures, and content of which shall be established by the Société or, where applicable, by a municipal or supramunicipal authority, and that will serve to allow the person to obtain any subsequent renewal of his or her taxi driver’s permit;

(2)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence committed in connection with the operation of a service of transportation by taxi;

(3)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of an indictable or criminal offence which is connected with the aptitudes and conduct required to carry on the occupation of taxi driver;

(4)  if the person has been convicted, 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); and

(5)  unless the person pays the annual duties and satisfies the other conditions prescribed by regulation.

No person who has been found guilty of an offence or an act referred to in subparagraphs 2 to 4 of the first paragraph may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit before the lapse of five years after he or she was found guilty.

The first paragraph does not apply to an offence or act committed before 30 June 2002.

2001, c. 15, s. 26; 2002, c. 49, s. 9; 2018, c. 19, s. 64.

2002-12-17

26. No person may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit

(1)  unless the person passes an examination on the knowledge required, the formalities, procedures, and content of which shall be established by the Société or, where applicable, by a municipal or supramunicipal authority, and that will serve to allow the person to obtain any subsequent renewal of his or her taxi driver’s permit;

(2)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence committed in connection with the operation of a service of transportation by taxi;

(3)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of an indictable or criminal offence which is connected with the aptitudes and conduct required to carry on the occupation of taxi driver;

(4)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence related to the traffic of narcotics, their importation or exportation as well as poppy and cannabis production, and provided for as the case may be in sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Statutes of Canada, 1996, chapter 19); and

(5)  unless the person pays the annual duties and satisfies the other conditions prescribed by regulation.

No person who has been found guilty of an offence or an act referred to in subparagraphs 2 to 4 of the first paragraph may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit before the lapse of five years after he or she was found guilty.

The first paragraph does not apply to an offence or act committed before 30 June 2002.

2001, c. 15, s. 26; 2002, c. 49, s. 9.

2002-06-30

26. No person may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit

(1)  unless the person passes an examination on the knowledge required, the formalities, procedures, and content of which shall be established by the Société or, where applicable, by a municipal or supramunicipal authority, and that will serve to allow the person to obtain any subsequent renewal of his or her taxi driver’s permit;

(2)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence related to the operation of a service of transportation by taxi;

Not in force

(3)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence related to sexual offences, public morals and disorderly conduct, offences against the person and reputation, prostitution, common bawdy-houses, robbery, extortion, false pretences, forgery, fraud, intimidation, mischief, including attempt and complicity, and provided for, as the case may be, in either Part V or Part VII of the Criminal Code (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter C-46), with the exception of subparagraphs a and c of section 175(1), of sections 176 to 178, of sections 210, 212, 213, 216, 217, 247 to 263, of subparagraphs b and c of section 264.1(1) and of sections 287 to 320, 343, 346, 362, 366, 368, 380, 397, 398, 423, 430, 433 to 436.1 and 463 to 465;

(4)  if the person has been convicted, in the last five years, of a criminal offence or an indictable offence related to the traffic of narcotics, their importation or exportation as well as poppy and cannabis production, and provided for as the case may be in sections 5, 6 and 7 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (Statutes of Canada, 1996, chapter 19); and

(5)  unless the person pays the annual duties and satisfies the other conditions prescribed by regulation.

No person who has been found guilty of an offence or an act referred to in subparagraphs 2 to 4 of the first paragraph may obtain, maintain or renew a taxi driver’s permit before the lapse of five years after he or she was found guilty.

The first paragraph does not apply to an offence or act committed before 30 June 2002, except in the case of an offence or act referred to in subparagraph 2 of that paragraph.

2001, c. 15, s. 26.