Ajax Pickering Transit Authority Act, 2001 O'Toole, John — Private Bill PR26 (37th Parliament, 3rd Session)

Bill PR26, 37-3

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Bill PR26, Ajax Pickering Transit Authority Act, 2001

O'Toole, John

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Bill Pr26 2001

An Act respecting the Ajax Pickering Transit

Authority

Preamble

The council of The Corporation of the Town of Ajax ("Ajax") and the

council of The Corporation of the City of Pickering ("Pickering") have

applied for special legislation to continue the Ajax Pickering Transit

Authority as a corporation.

It is appropriate to grant the application.

Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Transit Authority continued

(1) The Ajax Pickering Transit

Authority established by Ajax and Pickering is hereby continued as a

corporation without share capital under the name Ajax Pickering Transit

Pickering in French.

Composition

(2) The Transit Authority is composed of the members of its

board of directors.

Status as local board

(3) The Transit Authority shall be deemed to be a local board

as defined in

section 1 of the Municipal Affairs Act .

Purposes

(1) The purposes of the Transit

Authority are,

(

a) to carry on a public transportation system in Ajax and Pickering and

in other municipalities to the extent necessary to integrate the system with

other public transportation systems;

(

b) to integrate its services with the other public transportation

systems;

(

c) to exchange information about operations and design with other public

transit authorities.

Same

(2) Upon the request of another municipality and with the

consent of Ajax and Pickering, the Transit Authority may carry on a public

transportation system in the other municipality on behalf of the other

municipality.

Powers

(1) The Transit Authority has

the capacity, rights, powers and privileges of a municipality for carrying

out its purposes.

Operating licence

(2) Despite subsection 2 (1) of the Public Vehicles

Act , the Transit Authority may operate a public vehicle without an

operating licence issued under that Act, but only in Ajax, Pickering and

municipalities referred to in subsection 2 (2) and in other municipalities to

the extent necessary to integrate the transit services provided by the

Transit Authority with other transit systems.

Board of directors

(1) The board of directors is

composed of six members, three of whom are to be appointed by the Ajax town

council and three of whom are to be appointed by the Pickering city

council.

Same

(2) The composition of the board may be changed by a by-law

approved by the Ajax town council and the Pickering city council, and the

by-law may specify the manner in which the members of the board are to be

chosen.

Same

(3) If the composition of the board is changed to include

members appointed by another municipality, a subsequent by-law to change the

composition of the board requires the approval of the council of the other

municipality as well as those councils specified in subsection (2).

Remuneration

(4) The members of the board are to be paid such remuneration

as is specified by a by-law of the Transit Authority.

Vacancy

(5) If one or more positions on the board is vacant, the board

shall be deemed to be properly constituted for a period not exceeding 90 days

after the deficiency in the number of members first occurs.

Initial board

(6) The individuals who are members of the board of the Ajax

Pickering Transit Authority as it exists immediately before this Act receives

Royal Assent are the members of the board of the Ajax Pickering Transit

Authority on the day this Act receives Royal Assent.

Same

(7) The term of office of the members of the initial board

referred to in subsection (6) expires on the day on which their term of

office would otherwise have expired, but for this Act.

Powers of the board of directors

(1) The affairs of the Transit

Authority are under the management and control of the board of directors.

Same

(2) The board may pass by-laws and resolutions regulating its

proceedings and generally for the conduct and management of the affairs of

the Transit Authority.

Exemption from taxation

(1) The Transit Authority is not

liable to pay tax under

section 2 or 2.1 of the Land Transfer Tax

Act or

section 2 of the Retail Sales Tax Act in respect of any

transfer of assets or rights from a municipality to the Transit

Authority.

Exemption

(2) Section 2 of the Bulk Sales Act does not apply

with respect to any transfer of assets or rights from a municipality to the

Transit Authority.

Winding up the Transit Authority

(1) Despite subsection 210.4

(3) of the Municipal Act , the Transit Authority shall not be wound up

except by a by-law passed by the Ajax town council, the Pickering city

council and the council of every other municipality on behalf of which the

Transit Authority carries on a public transportation system.

Same

(2) Despite subsection 210.4 (4) of the Municipal Act ,

the Ajax town council, the Pickering city council and the council of every

other municipality described in subsection (1) have the power to pass a

by-law to dissolve the Transit Authority even if a regulation under

subsection 210.4 (7) of that Act relating to the dissolution of such a local

board is not in force.

Commencement

8. This Act comes into force on December 31,

Short title

9. The

short title of this Act is the Ajax

Pickering Transit Authority Act, 2001 .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of the Bill is set out in the

Preamble.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

December 12, 2001

Consideration of a Bill

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

December 5, 2001

Carried over to next session

December 4, 2001

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills

December 4, 2001

First Reading

Carried

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Collection	Ontario — Bills
Citation	Bill PR26, 37-3
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Language	en
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