1839 Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw Consolidated — full text

This is the exact embedded text of the captured official document. Snapshot 37e63fbd8ca4 · verified 2026-06-08 · original document · archived snapshot · unofficial consolidation, the official version is held by the municipal clerk.

T O W N O F L A D Y S M I T H "Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839" Consolidated Version as on July 13, 2020 (This consolidation is authorized by "Bylaw Revision Bylaw 2022, No. 2090") ________ Consolidated for Convenience Only This consolidation is not a legal document. Certified copies of the original bylaws should be consulted for all interpretations and applications of the bylaws of this subject November 4, 2013 Includes Amendment Bylaw Nos.: 1991 TOWN OF LADYSMITH BYLAW NO. 1839 A BYLAW TO ESTABLISH A SCHEME FOR INTER-COMMUNITY LICENSING AND REGULATING OF TRADES, OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES. WHEREAS Council may, pursuant to Section 8(6) of the Community Charter, regulate in relation to business; AND WHEREAS pursuant to Section 14 of the Community Charter, two or more municipalities may, by bylaw adopted by the Council of each participating municipality, establish an inter- community scheme in relation to one or more matters; AND WHEREAS pursuant to Section 15(1) of the Community Charter, Council may provide terms and conditions that may be imposed for obtaining, continuing to hold or renewing a licence, permit or approval and specify the nature of the terms and conditions and who may impose them; AND WHEREAS Council has given notice of its intention to adopt this bylaw by publishing such notice in two consecutive issues of a newspaper, the last publication appearing not less than three (3) and not more than ten (10) days before the hearing and has provided an opportunity for persons who consider they are affected by this bylaw to make representations to Council at a hearing pursuant to Section 59 of the Community Charter. NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Town of Ladysmith in open meeting assembled hereby enacts as follows: 1. CITATION This bylaw may be cited as "Town of Ladysmith Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw 2013, No. 1839". 2. DEFINITIONS In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires, "Business" has the meaning as defined by the "Community Charter Schedule - Definitions and Rules of Interpretation". "Excluded Business" means a Business excluded from application for an Inter-community Business Licence and includes those Businesses referred to in Schedule A attached hereto and forming part of this bylaw. "Inter-Community Business" means a Business that performs a service or activity within more Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839 Page 3 than one Participating Municipality by moving from client to client rather than having clients come to them. This includes but is not limited to trades, plumbers, electricians, cleaning services, pest control or other similar businesses. This does not include fruit stands, flea markets, trade shows or other similar businesses. "Inter-Community Business Licence" means a business licence which authorizes Inter- community Business to be carried on within the boundaries of any or all of the Participating Municipalities in accordance with this Bylaw and will be in addition to a Municipal Business Licence. "Municipal Business Licence" means a licence or permit, other than an Inter-community Business Licence, issued by a Participating Municipality that authorizes a Business to be carried on within the jurisdictional boundaries of that Participating Municipality. "Participating Municipality" means the following local governments that have adopted the Inter-community Business Licence Bylaw: City of Campbell River City of Courtenay City of Duncan City of Nanaimo City of Parksville City of Port Alberni District of North Cowichan District of Lantzville Town of Comox Town of Lake Cowichan Town of Ladysmith Town of Qualicum Beach Village of Cumberland District of Sooke Corporation of the Township of Esquimalt, and any other local government that adopt this Bylaw at a later date. "Person" has the meaning ascribed to it by the Interpretation Act. "Premise" means a fixed or permanent location where the applicant ordinarily carries on Business. "Principal Municipality" means the Participating Municipality where a Business is physically located, or has a Premise, or, where the licensee does not maintain a Premise in any of the Participating Municipalities, the municipality that issues the Inter-community Business Licence. 3. REGULATIONS (a) Subject to Section (c) and (e), a person who has obtained an Inter-community Business Licence may carry on business within a Participating Municipality for the term authorized by the Inter-community Business Licence without obtaining a Bylaw 1991 Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839 Page 4 Municipal Business Licence in the other Participating Municipalities. (b) A Participating Municipality may issue an Inter-community Business Licence to an applicant for an Inter-community Business Licence provided the business type is an Inter-community Business and is not an Excluded Business, the applicant has a valid Municipal Business Licence issued by that Participating Municipality, and the applicant meets the requirements of this Bylaw. (c) A person holding an Inter-community Business Licence must comply with all other regulations and bylaws of the Participating Municipality in which they are carrying on business. (d) A business that operates under an Inter-community Business Licence in more than one Participating Municipality shall only apply for an Inter-community Business Licence from the Participating Municipality in which they maintain a Premise. (e) Notwithstanding the issuance of an Inter-community Business Licence, every person who carries on, maintains, owns or operates, within a Participating Municipality, any profession, business, trade, occupation, calling, undertaking or thing in or from more than one branch, office, place, premise or store shall obtain a separate Municipal Business Licence for each branch, office, place, premise or store. And further notwithstanding Sections (b), (c), and (d), the Participating Municipalities agree that where an applicant for an Inter-community Business Licence: i. Does not maintain Premises in any of the Participating Municipalities, then the applicant may apply at any one of them; or ii. Maintains a Premise in more than one of the Participating Municipalities, the applicant must apply at one of the Participating Municipalities where they maintain a Premise. 4. FEES (a) The fee for an Inter-community Business Licence is $150 $170 and shall be paid in full at the time of application and retained by the Participating Municipality that issues the licence. (b) The fee for an Inter-community Business licence is separate and additional to any Municipal Business Licence fee that may be required. (c) The annual Inter-Community Business Licence Fee prescribed in this bylaw may be reduced pro-rata in respect of any person who becomes liable to be licensed after the commencement of the licence period, on the same basis as a municipal business licence. 5. APPLICATION Bylaw 1991 Bylaw 1991 Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839 Page 5 (a) Every Inter-community Business Licence shall be issued on a standard form provided for that purpose, as agreed upon from time to time by the Participating Municipalities and including, as a minimum, the following information: - Disclosing the nature and character of the profession, business, trade, occupation, calling, undertaking or thing to be carried on, maintained, owned or operated by the applicant; - Declaring the mailing address and contact information for such profession, business, trade, occupation, calling, undertaking or thing; - Declaring the number of persons engaged or occupied in such profession, business, trade, occupation, calling, undertaking or thing; - Disclosing the number of distinctive lines of goods sold or offered for sale; - Including any other information concerning the profession, business, trade, occupation, calling, undertaking or thing which the Participating Municipality may require. (b) Each Participating Municipality shall, upon request, provide the other Participating Municipalities with a list of Inter-community Business Licences that it has issued during the calendar year. 6. SUSPENSION OR CANCELLATION OF AN INTER-COMMUNITY BUSINESS LICENCE (a) A Council or Designated Officer or Employee of a participating municipality may exercise the authority of the Principal Municipality in accordance with Sections 15 and 60 of the Community Charter to suspend or cancel an Inter-community Business Licence. The suspension or cancellation shall be in effect throughout all of the Participating Municipalities and it shall be unlawful for the holder to carry on the Business authorized by the Inter-community Business Licence in any Participating Municipalities for the period of the suspension or cancellation. (b) Before suspending or canceling an inter-community Business Licence under Section 6(a), the Participating Municipality must give the licence holder notice of the proposed action and must inform the licence holder of their right to be heard. i. If the licence holder wishes to exercise this right, the Participating Municipality shall communicate in writing to the licence holder and Principal Municipality that issued the Inter-community Business Licence, together with such documentary evidence of the reasons for suspension or cancellation as may be available and the request to be heard. Such Principal Municipality shall then as soon thereafter as reasonably possible provide the Licence Holder an opportunity to address their respective Council who will then consider whether to suspend or cancel the Inter-community Business Licence. ii. If the licence holder does not exercise their right to be heard, the Participating Municipality may suspend or cancel the Inter-community Business Licence in accordance with Section 6(a). Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839 Page 6 (c) Any conduct by a licence holder resulting in a hearing made under Section 6(b)(i) shall be considered by the Council of the Principal Municipality as though it happened within the jurisdiction of the Principal Municipality. (d) A decision by a Principal Municipality or Participating Municipality to cancel or suspend an Inter-community Business Licence under Section 6 (b) shall be honoured by all Participating Municipalities. (e) Nothing in this Bylaw impedes the authority of a Participating Municipality to suspend or cancel any business licence issued by that Municipality, or to enact regulations in respect of any class of Business Licence in accordance with Section 15 of the Community Charter and amendments thereto. 7. MISCELLANEOUS (a) A Participating Municipality may, by notice in writing to each of the other Participating Municipalities, withdraw from the Inter-community Business Licence scheme established by this bylaw. Notice Must: i. Set out the date on which the withdrawing Municipality will no longer recognize the validity within its boundaries of business licences issued pursuant to this Bylaw, which date must be at least six months from the date of the notice; and ii. Include a certified copy of the Bylaw authorizing the withdrawal. (b) An Inter-community Business Licence issued prior to the effective date of the withdrawal shall, until it expires, remain valid within the boundaries of the withdrawing Municipality. 8. SEVERABILITY (a) If any section, paragraph or phrase in this bylaw is for any reason held to be invalid by a decision of a Court of competent jurisdiction, that portion shall be severed and the remainder of this bylaw shall continue in full force and effect. 9. EFFECTIVE DATE This Bylaw shall come into full force and effect on the first day January 2014. Inter-Community Business Licence Bylaw, 2013 No. 1839 Page 7 READ A FIRST TIME on the 7th day of October 2013 READ A SECOND TIME on the 7th day of October 2013 READ A THIRD TIME on the 7th day of October, 2013 THIRD READING RESCINDED on the 21st day of October, 2013 READ A THIRD TIME AS AMENDED on the 21st day of October, 2013 ADOPTED on the 4th day of, November, 2013 ORIGINAL SIGNED BY Mayor (R. Hutchins) ORIGINAL SIGNED BY Corporate Officer (S. Bowden) Schedule A The following Business types are Excluded Businesses for the purposes of application for an Inter-Community Business Licence under the Inter Community Business Licence Scheme set out in the bylaw: - Social escort services - Vehicles for hire (for example, taxis, limousines, or buses) - Body-rub services (which includes the manipulating, touching or stimulating by any means, of a Person or part thereof, but does not include medical, therapeutic or cosmetic massage treatment given by a person duly licensed or registered under any statute of the Province of British Columbia governing such activities or a therapeutic touch technique)