Acts and Regulations

M-17 - Motor Vehicle Act

Section 275
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Financial responsibility of taxicabs
275(1)No person shall operate
(a) a privately owned passenger vehicle to transport the owner or driver thereof and passengers for remuneration to and from his and their places of work or business with the passengers being transported under private arrangement with him as to remuneration on not less than a monthly basis, or
(b) a taxicab outside the territorial jurisdiction of any local government or highway board,
unless the vehicle or taxicab is licensed under this section and has a gummed licence issued in connection therewith affixed to the windshield thereof.
275(2)Upon application by the owner of a motor vehicle or taxicab, and without payment of fee, the Registrar may license the same authorizing its operation as described in subsection (1) and may issue a gummed licence in connection therewith.
275(3)No motor vehicle or taxicab may be licensed under this section and no gummed licence may be issued in connection therewith unless the owner thereof has furnished to the Registrar proof of his financial responsibility in such amount, form and manner as may be prescribed by the regulations, and has complied with such other terms and conditions as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by regulation, prescribe.
275(4)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing the amount, form and manner in which proof of financial responsibility shall be given for the purposes of this section, and terms and conditions precedent to the licensing of motor vehicles or taxicabs under this section, and providing for such other matters in connection therewith as to him may seem desirable.
1955, c.13, s.247; 2005, c.7, s.43; 2017, c.20, s.103
Financial responsibility of taxicabs
275(1)No person shall operate
(a) a privately owned passenger vehicle to transport the owner or driver thereof and passengers for remuneration to and from his and their places of work or business with the passengers being transported under private arrangement with him as to remuneration on not less than a monthly basis, or
(b) a taxicab outside the territorial jurisdiction of any municipality, rural community or highway board,
unless the vehicle or taxicab is licensed under this section and has a gummed licence issued in connection therewith affixed to the windshield thereof.
275(2)Upon application by the owner of a motor vehicle or taxicab, and without payment of fee, the Registrar may license the same authorizing its operation as described in subsection (1) and may issue a gummed licence in connection therewith.
275(3)No motor vehicle or taxicab may be licensed under this section and no gummed licence may be issued in connection therewith unless the owner thereof has furnished to the Registrar proof of his financial responsibility in such amount, form and manner as may be prescribed by the regulations, and has complied with such other terms and conditions as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by regulation, prescribe.
275(4)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing the amount, form and manner in which proof of financial responsibility shall be given for the purposes of this section, and terms and conditions precedent to the licensing of motor vehicles or taxicabs under this section, and providing for such other matters in connection therewith as to him may seem desirable.
1955, c.13, s.247; 2005, c.7, s.43