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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 265/75THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PICKERING By-Law Number o4 S /75 A By-law to licence and regulate the operators of Public Garages within the Town of Pickering. WHEREAS paragraph 131 of section 354 (1) of the Municipal Act R.S.O. 1970 C. 284 provides that By-laws may be passed by Councils of the local municipalities for licensing and regulating the operators of public garages including automobile service stations as defined in Clause A of paragraph 132 of the said Section 354, and for fixing fees of such licenses, and for revoking such licenses and for imposing penalties for breaches of such by-laws and for the collection thereof: BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED BY THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF PICKERING AS FOLLOWS: 1. In this by-law (a) "Council" shall mean the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Town of Pickering. (b) "Motor Vehicle" shall have the same meaning as defined in Section 1 (17) of The Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1970 C. 202 (c)• "Public Garage" shall include all those establishments listed in column A hereunder and each such establishment which may be licensed under the provisions of this By-law shall be given the appropriate license classification listed in Column B hereunder; COLUMN A Automobile Service Station as defined in Clause (a) of paragraph 132 of Section 354 (1) of The Municipal Act; Parking Station or Parking Lot A building or place where motor vehicles are kept for sale or stored A building or place where motor vehicles are hired or kept or used for hire other than taxi stands and driving schools; A buildinq or place wherein the main use is the washing of motor vehicles for compensation A building or place used as a motor vehicle repair shop; COLUMN B LICENSE CLASSIFICATION A LICENSE CLASSIFICATION 8 LICENSE CLASSIFICATION C LICENSE CLASSIFICATION D LICENSE CLASSIFICATION E LICENSE CLASSIFICATION F Automobile paint and automobile LICENSE CLASSIFICATION G body repair shop, A building or place used for the LICENSE CLASSIFICATION H carrying on of the business permitted to an automobile service station in conjunction with some other retail business; Contd.... 2. -2- 2. There shall he taken out by every operator of a public garage in the Town of Pickering a license from the Council authorizing him to carry on his business in the Town of Pickering, for which said license the person obtaining the same shall pay to the Town of Pickering at the time of taking out such license, the fee fixed by this by-law, and no person shll, within the limits of the Town of Pickering, carry on or enrage in any such business until he has procured such license to do so. 3. Before a license is granted, the applicant therefore shall make application to the Council through the By-law Enforcement Department ipon such form or forms as may be from time to time prescribed uy the Council but such application shall not be required where a license desires renewal of his license if the facts and conditions.relating thereto are the same as when the original license was issued. 4. The By-law Enforcemnt Officer shall, upon receipt of the application referred to in the preceding section, make or cause to be made all investigations wheich he deems necessary or which are required by law or by the Council relative to the application. 5. If the investigations referred to in the preceding section do not disclose any reason to believe that the carrying out of this applicant's business may be in any way adverse to the public interest, the Ciuncil may direct the By-law Department to issue the license. 6. The By-law Officer, or such other person as may be designated shall on behalf of the Council sign all licenses issued thereby pursuant to this By-law and such license shall be in such form as the Council from time to time designates. 7. Every person obtaining a license under this By-law shall keep his license posted up in some conspicuous place on the premises in respect to which the license is issued, and every person so licensed shall when so requested by any person authorized by the Council, produce the license for inspection. 8. Any person duly authorized by the Council may at all reasonable times during business hou:; inspect the lands and premises of any person who has or is required to have a license under this By-law, and.no person who has or is required to have a license under this by-law shall obstruct or hinder the making-of the inspection aforesaid, or cause or permit the same to be obstructed or hindered. 9. Where two or more persons carry on or engage in partnership in any of the businesses set out in section 2, the license may be issued in the name of one partner only, but when the application for license is made the name and address of each member of the partnership shall be set out therein, and such license shall terminate on the dissolution of such partnership. 10. All licenses issued under this by-law shall be personal to the holder thereof and shall not be transfered. 11. Every person applying for or holding a by-law shall in such application or in engaging in the business in respect of issued observe, comply with and be gov, set out in Schedule "A" to this by-law shall form part of this by-law. license under this carrying on or which the license is srened by the regulations and the said Schedule Contd..... 3. - 3 - 12. That Council may revoke any license issued under this by-law but before revoking any such license the holder thereof shall be given at least 30 days notice mailed or delivered to his address last known to the By-law Department and 'shall be permitted either by himself or by his representative to appear before Council to show cause why he believes such license should not be revoked. 13. Notice of the revocation of any license may be given by the By-law Department by registered letter mailed to the address given by the licensee in his application for the license, or by communication to the licensee in any manner whatsoever, and upon such notice the license revoked shall cease and terminate and be of no further effect. 14. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions or requirements of this by-law shall be liable upon conviction therefor to forfeit and pay at the discretion of the presiding Judge or Justice a penalty not exceeding $300.00 exclusive of costs for each offence. Every penalty shall be recoverable under the provisions of the Summary Convictions Act. 15. Every License issued under this by-law shall, unless it is sooner revoked or forfeited, expire on the 31st day of December in the year in which it is issued. 16. The fee for a license under this by-law shall be $10.00 17. By-law Number 4275/72 is hereby repealed. By-law read a FIRST, SECOND and THIRD time this k1,1' day of "` 1975. ' r Aaminlatrator-Clerk. j SCHEDULE "A" to By-law No. of.the Corporation of the Town of Pickering dated this day of 1975. relating to operators of public garages. 1. No person licensed as the operator of a public garage or automobile service station shall store or park or allow to be stored or parked thereat any trailer used for human habitation while so stored or parked. 2. No person owning or keeping an automobile service station licensed under the provisions of this By-law shall use or permit his automobile service station to be used for the purpose of wrecking, parking, storing or selling motor vehicles, or for performing therein any repairs to motor vehicles other than minor running repairs essential to the actual operation of such vehicles or for storing and keeping for sale any articles, accessories or merchandise of any kind other than gasoline, oil, grease, anti-freeze, tires, tubes, automotive accessories and parts required for minor repairs. Notwithstanding the foregoing automatic vending machines may be kept and operated at an automobile service station. 3. Every applicant for a licence to operate a parking lot shall include in his application a statement setting forth: (a) The location and dimension of the lands in respect of which he seeks such licence (hereinafter referred to as the licensed premises); (b) The maximum number of motor vehicles proposed to be parked or stored at or upon such premises at any one time; (c) The hours duri^g which such premises will be open for business; (d) The location of .each proposed entrance to and exit from such premises; (e) The location, size and type of construction of any office proposed to be used or erected at or upon such premises. 4. Every person licensed to operate a parking station or parking lot shall: (1) If he engages in driving, operating, or moving motor vehicles parked or stored at or upon the licensed premises, be the holder of an Operators of Chaffeur's Licence under The Highway Traffic Act and shall mot, employ any person or permit any employee to likewise drive or operate such motor vehicles unless such person is the holder of such an Operator's or Chaffeur's Licence. (2) Display in a conspicuous place.at or upon the Licensed Premises a sign or signs of a design which is not misleading and bearin(; (a) in letters and figures of a uniform size but not less than three inches in height, his rates or charges for parking or storing motor vehicles and (b) in readily legible letters the hours during which the licensed Premises are open for business, his name and address. Contd...... 2. 4. (4) Provide proper means of ingress and egress to and from the Licensed Premises to the satisfaction of the Council on the basis of not more than thirty feet for each seventy feet, or less, of frontage which the Licensed Premises has on any street; provided that in the case of any parking station or parking lot located at a corner lot, no entrance or exit shall be located less than twenty-five feet from the nearest intersection of the curbs of the intersecting streets unless at the date of this By-law the said entrance or exit was properly located less than twenty-five feet from such intersection and was in accordance with all local by--laws applicable thereto. (SY Either by himself or through one or more employees, during the business hours specified in the sign or signs required by subsection 3, maintain constant and vigilant supervision of every motor vehicle parked or stored at or upon the Licensed Premises provided that this provision shall not apply in the case of any Licensed Premises where each motorvehicle can be parked, or stored, and locked by the owner or operator thereof in a location from which such motor vehicle can be removed without obstruction from other parked or stored motor vehicles. (6) Keep the Licensed Premises free from rubbish and in a clean and neat condition and keep any sidewalk or street upon which such premises abut, free from any dirt or other foreign substance derived from such premises or resulting from the use thereof. (7) where practicable, prevent the drainage of surface water across any sidewalk upon which the Licensed Premises abut. (8) At the time of receiving each motor vehicle for the purpose of parking or storing same at or upon the Licensed Premises, give or cause to be given to the person from whom the motor vehicle is received a numbered receipt bearing on the same side as the number (a) a clear statement of the extent of the responsibility accepted by the licensee in respect to loss of, or damage to such motor vehicle and the contents thereof while parked, stored or otherwise in the care and custody of the Licensee or any of his employees and (b) the Licensee's name the location of the Licensed Premises, and the business hours specified in the sign or signs required by subsection 3. (9) Whenever any motor vehicle remains continuously without good reason at or upon the Licensed Premises for more than twenty four hours, forthwith report to the nearest police station the make and Provincial License number of such motor vehicle. No person licensed to operate a parking station or parking lot shall: (1) Remove or cause to be removed any snow from the Licensed Premises to any sidewalk or roadway upon which such premises abut; (2) Park or store any motor vehicle on any highway upon which the Licensed Premises abut; Contd...... 3. - 3 - (3) Lend, hire or rent or cause or permit any employee or other person to lend, hire or rent any motor vehicle that has been received by him or any of his employees for the purspose of parking or storing same at or upon the Licensed Premises; or use or cause or permit any employee or other person co use any such motor vehicle or any accessory or equipment thereof except for purposes necessarily incidental to parking or storing same, or if the Licensee is also licensed to make motor vehicle repairs, necessarily incidental to make repairs thereto. 6. No person licensed to operate a public garage shall remove .or cause to be removed any snow frr_m his public garage or automobile service station premises to any sidewalk or roadway upon which such premises abut. 7. Eveiy person licensed to operate a parking station or parking lot shall at all times permit any person authorized by the Council to enter the Licansel Premises and make such inspection as may be deemed necessary in order to ascertain whether or not the provisions of the By-law are being complied with. 8. (1) No person licensed as the operator of a public garage shall permit the engine of a motor vehicle in any building to run, whether on a frame or in a motor vehicle while stationery, unless adequate ventilation is provided to ensure dilution of any carbon monoxide fumes. (2) No public garage license shall be issued in respect of a building for whic% no license was issued in the previous year unless the applicant satisfies the Licensing Officer that the Department of Labour :or the Province of Ontario has approved the plans for pro-iding adequate ventilation facilities in that part of the building where motor cars may be stored or repaired. 9. No person licensed un6nr this Hy-)ew as operator of a public garage shall upon the premises in respect of which such licence is issued, ^ar<-y on the r;isi.ness ff washing or cleaning motor vehicles by mechanical means unless such business was carried on upon such premises at the date of the passing of this by-law and was in accordance with all local by-laws applicabale thvzwto, or unltiss such persons shall provide off--street fa,.-.ina _-pac at the place of ingress to such premises fcL a•.. ?,t s,4, r;:s for each wash line, and at the place of egres:• from. Much ror-_',es `.or at least 3 cars. 10. No person licensed under this, Dy-•la-,r for classification C shall have, keep stove, ^xhil?i t r,y offer for sale such cars unless such cars are enclosed within a building or enclosed behind a fence of sufficient height and construction so that none of the cars stored on the pr^n,ises shall be visible to a person six feet tall, standing -,t the grade level of the nearest roadway a.°nd diztant 100 feet from the nearest lot line, provided that in nr ev€r.t shall the fence be less than seven feet in height, unlasr such automobile bears a Safety Standards CectiZicate issued pursuant to the Highway Traffic Act and regulations. By-law read a first, second and third time this day of ;^)_ `^ 1975. l e.?l Clerk