Municipal Action on Accessibility for Persons With Disabilities Act, 2015 — Bill 114 (41st Parliament, 1st Session)

Bill 114, 41-1

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Bill 114 2015

persons with disabilities

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Definitions

1. In

this Act,

"accessible

format" may include, but is not limited to, large print, recorded audio and

electronic formats, braille and other formats usable by persons with

disabilities; ("format accessible")

"accessible website" means a website that conforms with

at Level AA; ("site Web accessible")

("handicap")

Prohibition

(1) Despite

the Municipal Act, 2001 and the City of Toronto Act, 2006 , no municipality shall take any

action that impedes a person who offers an item mentioned in subsection (2) to

disabilities.

Same

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the

items are goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment, buildings,

structures, premises or any other thing that is prescribed for the purposes of

Disabilities Act, 2005 .

Exception

(3) Subsection (1) does not apply if the municipality's

action is required to achieve a pressing and substantial objective that is in

the public interest and that cannot be achieved in any other manner.

Review

(1) No

later than six months after this Act receives Royal Assent, each municipality

shall review its by-laws and other instruments for the purpose set out in

subsection (2).

Purpose

(2) The purpose of the review is to identify

any by-laws or other instruments, the enforcement or implementation of which

could result in the municipality impeding a person who offers items mentioned

services or facilities for Ontarians with disabilities.

Consultation

(3) As part of the review, a municipality

shall consult with persons with disabilities and representatives of persons who

offer items mentioned in subsection 2 (2) to the public.

Report

(1) Each

municipality shall make the results of the review under

section 3 av ailable to the public in a report in an accessible

format and by posting it on an accessible website immediately.

Contents

(2) The report shall include a

summary of

the feedback received as part of the consultation and a list of the by-laws and

other instruments identified.

Plan

(1) No

later than nine months after this Act receives Royal Assent, each municipality

shall make available to the public in an accessible format and by posting it on

an accessible website a plan that sets out the following:

1. A

description of how the municipality will amend the by-laws or other instruments

identified during the review under

section 3 in order to ensure that the municipality

complies with

section 2.

2. A

description of a process for a person who offers items mentioned in subsection

2 (2) to the public to obtain an exemption from a by-law or other instrument

the items.

3. Guidelines

explaining how persons may seek an exemption described in paragraph 2.

4. A

description of training that will be provided to employees of the municipality

regarding the rights of persons with disabilities to equal treatment without

discrimination in accordance with the Human Rights Code

and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ,

and in particular regarding the enforcement and implementation of the by-laws

and other instruments of the municipality.

Implementation

(2) No later than one year after this Act

comes into force, a municipality shall implement its plan in its entirety.

Commencement

6. This

Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

7. The

for Persons with Disabilities Act, 2015 .

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill prohibits municipalities from taking any action that impedes a person who

offers items, including goods, services and facilities, from improving

municipalities to conduct a review of their by-laws and other instruments and

to report and plan in respect of complying with the Bill.

Date Bill stage Activity Committee

June 3, 2015

First Reading

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

June 3, 2015

Committee

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

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