HomeMy WebLinkAboutBy-law 3910/70THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING
BY-LAW NUMBER 3q[0/70
Being a By-law to regulate and license
Driving Schools and Instructors.
WHEREAS pursuant to The Municipal Act, R.S.O.
1960, Chapter 249, Section 401, Paragraph 4, The Corporation of the
Township of Pickering is given authority to pass By-laws for licensing,
regulating and governing persons who carry on the business of teaching
persons to operate motor vehicles and driving instructors employed in such
business, and for regulating and governing the equipment used in such
business, and for revoking any such license.
/ NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE
TOWNSHIP OF PICKERING ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
1. No person shall carry on the business of teaching persons
to operate motor vehicles in the Township of Pickering without
having first obtained a license to do so.
2. No person shall act as a driving instructor to teach persons
to operate motor vehicles in the Township of Pickering without
first having obtained a license to do so.
3. All applications for licenses shall be filed with the
Municipal Law Enforcement officer who shall submit each
application to the Chief Constable for his report. ,
4. Every applicant to carry on the business of teaching persons
to operate motor vehicles shall submit two photographs of
himself with his application, and shall state in his application
the names and serial numbers of all motor vehicles used in his
business.
5. The applicant for every license to act as a driving instructor
shall submit with his application two photographs of himself,
one of such photographs to be attached to the license and the
other to be filed with the Municipal Law Enforcement officer,
and upon application for renewal of any license shall furnish
new photographs if required to do so.
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6. All Licenses issued to persons to act as a driving instructor
shall be displayed prominently in the motor vehicla used to teach
persons to operate a motor vehicle.
7. The applicant for a license under this By-law shall be of the
full age of twenty-one years and he must satisfy the Municipal
Law Enforcement Officer that he has a chauffeur's license issued
by the Minister of Highways for the Province of Ontario.
8. Every person licensed under this by-law shall not use or
operate an automobile or other vehicle in connection with his
business, or allow the same to be used or operated without
having first submitted the vehicle to the Chief Constable of
the Township of Pickering for inspection and approval as to
its safety, and every such vehicle shall be equipped with dual
controls.
9. The owner or operator of every vehicle who is licensed under
this by-law shall, when required, submit such vehicle for
examination by the Chief Constable or other officer authorized
by him, and no owner or operator or any of his employees shall
at any time when the vehicle is not employed prevent or hinder
the said Chief Constable or any officer authorized by him from
entering the same, or at any time preventing or hindering him
from entering his garage or other building for the purpose of
inspecting same.
10. Where the owner or operator licensed under this By-law disposes
of his motor vehicle and acquires another motor vehicle to be
used in connection with his business, he shall submit the latter
vehicle to the Municipal Law Enforcement Officer for inspection
and approval by the Chief Constable of the Township of Pickering
before using the same.
11, Every owner or operator licensed under this by-law shall,
whenever the motor vehicle is being used in such business, exhibit
on the frontand rear of the said motor vehicle signs having
dimensions of at least 12" x 180 stating, in large clear letters,
that the vehicle is being operated to teach persons to operate a
motor vehicle.
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12. No persons carrying on the business of teaching persons to
operate a motor vehicle shall employ any person as a driving
instructor other than a person duly licensed under this by-law.
13. When any person licensed under this by-law ceases to carry on
the business of teaching persons to operate motor vehicles in
the Township of Pickering or ceases to act as a driving
instructor to teach persons to operate motor vehicles in the
Township of Pickering, he shall, within two days thereafter,
notify the Municipal Law Enforcement officer giving the reasons
therefor.
14. Every owner licensed under this by-law, or driver employed by
him, shall take due care of all property delivered or entrusted
to him for conveyance or safekeeping. Every driver of a motor
vehicle, immediately upon the termination of any hiring or
engagements, shall carefully search his vehicles for any property
lost or left therein, and all property or money left in his
vehicle shall be forthwith delivered over to the person owning
the same, or if the owner cannot at once be found, then to the
nearest police station,with all information in his possession
regarding same.
15. The fee to be paid for a license under this by-law at the time
of the application shall be $50.00 for the operator of the
school and $10.00 for each instructor driver. Such license
shall expire on the 31st day of December of the year in which
it was issued.
16. Any person convicted of a breach of any of the provisions of
this by-law shall upon conviction thereof forfeit and pay at the
discretion of the convicting Magistrate a penalty not exceeding
(exclusive of costs) Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for each
offence.
17. The Council may revoke any license issued under this by-law
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at any time.
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18. Every owner or operator operating under this by-law shall in
respect of each driving school vehicle which is used for the
purpose of teaching persons to operate motor vehicles, procure
a Policy of Insurance endorsed to the effect that the Township
of Pickering will be given at least ten (10) days notice in
writing of any cancellation, expiry or change in the amount of
the policy, insuring in respect of any one accident, to the
limit of at least $50,000.00 exclusive of interest and costs
against loss or damage resulting from bodily injury to or
death of one or more persons and loss of or damage to property;
and the said policy shall make provision for passenger hazard
including the carrying of passengers for compensation or hire
in the business of or for the use of a driving school in an
amount not less than the foregoing. A copy or certificate of
such policy shall be deposited with the Township of Pickering.
19. Every person licensed under this by-law to carry on the business
of teaching persons to operate motor vehicles shall receive
with each license a metal plate for each vehicle inspected and
approved by the Chief Constable of the Township of Pickering
bearing an identifying number and shall at all times keep such
plate securely and prominently affixed to the right rear portion
and on the outside of the vehicle in respect of which the same
was issued.
20. By-law number 3589 be and the same is hereby repealed.
BY-LAW READ A FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD TIM AND FINALLY PASSED THIS
176?6DAY OF CZLIY'.Lw 1970.
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