Intermunicipal Transportation Network Service (TNS) Business Licence Bylaw 2473 — full text

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White-Rock-Inter-Municipal-Transportation-Network-Service-TNS-Business-Licence-Bylaw" municipality_ids: - gx-000158 content_type: "application/pdf" captured_at: "2026-06-08T05:38:58+00:00" normalize_method: "pdf-docling-ocrmac" normalize_version: "docling-0.1" needs_ocr: false char_count: 11546 ocr_quality: "good" ocr_word_ratio: 0.92 --- ## THE CORPORATION OF THE ## CITY OF WHITE ROCK BYLAW 2473  A bylaw to permit transportation network services to operate across jurisdictional boundaries thereby minimizing the need to obtain a separate municipal business licence in each jurisdiction. WHEREAS the City of Abbotsford, the Village of Anmore, the Bowen Island Municipality, the City of Burnaby, the City of Chilliwack, the City of Coquitlam, the City of Delta, the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, the District of Hope, the District of Kent, the Corporation of the City of Langley, the Corporation of the Township of Langley, the Village of Lions Bay, the City of Maple Ridge, the City of Mission, the Corporation of the City of New Westminster, the Corporation of the City of North Vancouver, the Corporation of the District of North Vancouver, the City of Pitt Meadows, the Corporation of the City of Port Coquitlam, the City of Port Moody, the City of Richmond, the District of Squamish, the City of Surrey, the City of Vancouver, the Corporation of the District of West Vancouver, the Resort Municipality of Whistler, and the Corporation of the City of White Rock (the "Participating Municipalities"), wish to permit transportation network services ("TNS") businesses to operate across their jurisdictional boundaries thereby eliminating the need to obtain a separate municipal business licence in each jurisdiction; AND WHEREAS each of the Participating Municipalities has or will adopt a similar bylaw to implement the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence scheme; NOW THEREFORE the Council of The Corporation of the City of White Rock, in an open meeting assembled, ENACTS as follows: 1. There is hereby established an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence scheme among the Participating Municipalities, pursuant to section 14 of the Community Charter and section 192.1 of the Vancouver Charter. 2. In this Bylaw: 3. "Accessible Vehicle" means a motor vehicle designed and manufactured, or converted, for the purpose of transporting persons who use mobility aids; 4. "Business" has the same meaning as in the Community Charter; 5. "Community Charter" means the Community Charter, S.B.C. 2003, c. 26, as may be amended or replaced from time to time; 6. "Inter-municipal TNS Business" means a TNS Business that has been licensed to operate in the Region 1 operating area by the Passenger Transportation Board; 7. "Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence" means a business licence which authorizes an Inter-municipal TNS Business to be carried on within the jurisdictional boundaries of any or all of the Participating Municipalities; 8. "Mobility Aid" has the same meaning as in the Passenger Transportation Act, S.B.C 2004, c. 39. as may be amended or replaced from time to time; 9. "Municipal Business Licence" means a licence or permit, other than an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence, issued by a Participating Municipality that authorizes a Business to be carried on within the jurisdictional boundaries of that Participating Municipality; 10. "Participating Municipality" means any one of the Participating Municipalities; 11. "Premises" means one or more fixed or permanent locations where the TNS Business ordinarily carries on Business; 12. "TNS Business" means a person carrying on the business of providing Transportation Network Services; 13. "Transportation Network Services" has the same meaning as in the Passenger Transportation Act, S.B.C 2004, c. 39, as may be amended or replaced from time to time; 14. "Vancouver Charter" means the Vancouver Charter, S.B.C. 1953, c. 55, as may be amended or replaced from time to time; and 15. "Zero Emission Vehicle" means a motor vehicle that is exclusively propelled by electricity or hydrogen from an external source. 3. Subject to the provisions of this Bylaw, each Participating Municipality will permit a TNS Business that has obtained an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence to carry on the Business of providing Transportation Network Services within that Participating Municipality for the term authorized by the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence without obtaining a Municipal Business Licence for the TNS Business in that Participating Municipality. 4. All Inter-municipal TNS Business Licences will be issued by the City of Vancouver. 5. The City of Vancouver may issue an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence to a TNS Business if the TNS Business is an Inter-municipal TNS Business and meets the requirements of this Bylaw, in addition to the requirements of the City of Vancouver's License Bylaw No. 4450. 6. Notwithstanding that a TNS Business may hold an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence that would make it unnecessary to obtain a Municipal Business Licence for the TNS Business in the Participating Municipalities, the TNS Business must still comply with all orders and regulations under any municipal business licence bylaw in addition to those under any other bylaws, regulations, or provincial or federal laws that may apply within any jurisdiction in which the TNS Business carries on Business. 7. Any Participating Municipality may require that the holder of an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence also obtain a Municipal Business Licence for any Premises that are maintained by the licence holder within the jurisdiction of the Participating Municipality. 8. The annual Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence fee is $155, plus $150 for each vehicle operating under the authority of the Inter-municipal TNS Business, except that the per vehicle fee for Zero Emission Vehicles will be $30, and there will be no per vehicle fee charged for Accessible Vehicles. Any fees paid by an applicant to any Participating Municipality for a Municipal Business Licence for the TNS Business prior to the availability of the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licencethat are not refunded by that Participating Municipality will be credited against the initial Intermunicipal TNS Business Licence fee owing under this section 8 9. The fee for any additional vehicles that begin operating under the authority of an Intermunicipal TNS Business License holder after the annual license fee is paid will be the per vehicle fee set out in section 8, pro-rated by dividing the applicable annual per vehicle fee by 12 and multiplying the resulting number by the number of months remaining in that calendar year, including any partial months which will be counted as whole months. 10. The length of term of an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence is 12 months, except that the length of term of the initial Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence issued to an Intermunicipal TNS Business by the City of Vancouver may be less than 12 months in order to harmonize the expiry date of the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence with the calendar year, in which case the annual fee will be pro-rated by dividing the applicable annual license fee by 12 and multiplying the resulting number by the number of months remaining in that calendar year, including any partial months which will be counted as whole months. 11. An Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence will be valid within the jurisdictional boundaries of all of the Participating Municipalities until its term expires, unless the Intermunicipal TNS Business Licence is suspended or cancelled. If a Participating Municipality withdraws from the Intermunicipal TNS Business Licence scheme among the Participating Municipalities in accordance with this Bylaw, then the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence will cease to be valid within the jurisdictional boundary of that former Participating Municipality. 12. A Participating Municipality may exercise the authority of the City of Vancouver as the issuing municipality and suspend an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence in relation to conduct by the holder within the Participating Municipality which would give rise to the power to suspend a business licence under the Community Charter or Vancouver Charter or under the business licence bylaw of the Participating Municipality. The suspension will be in effect throughout all of the Participating Municipalities and it will be unlawful for the holder to carry on the Business authorized by the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence in any Participating Municipality for the period of the suspension. 13. A Participating Municipality may exercise the authority of the City of Vancouver as the issuing municipality and cancel an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence in relation to conduct by the holder within the Participating Municipality which would give rise to the power to cancel a business licence under the Community Charter or Vancouver Charter or the business licence bylaw of the Participating Municipality. The cancellation will be in effect throughout all of the Participating Municipalities. 14. The suspension or cancellation of an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence under section 12 or 13 will not affect the authority of a Participating Municipality to issue a Municipal Business Licence, other than an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence, to the holder of the suspended or cancelled Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence. 15. Nothing in this Bylaw affects the authority of a Participating Municipality to suspend or cancel any Municipal Business Licence issued by that municipality or to enact regulations in respect of any category of Business under section 15 of the Community Charter or sections 272, 273, 279A, 279A.1, 279B, and 279C of the Vancouver Charter. 16. A Participating Municipality may, by notice in writing to each of the other Participating Municipalities, withdraw from the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence scheme among the Participating Municipalities, and the notice must: 5. (a) set out the date on which the withdrawing municipality will no longer recognize the validity within its boundaries of Inter-municipal TNS Business Licences, which date must be at least 6 months from the date of the notice; and 6. (b) include a certified copy of the municipal Council resolution or bylaw authorizing the municipality's withdrawal from the Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence scheme. 17. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Bylaw shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provisions of this Bylaw and any such invalid or unenforceable provision shall be deemed to be severable. 18. Despite any other provision of this Bylaw, an Inter-municipal TNS Business Licence granted in accordance with this Bylaw does not grant the holder a licence to operate in any jurisdiction other than within the jurisdictional boundaries of the Participating Municipalities. 19. A business licence granted under any other inter-municipal TNS Business licence scheme is deemed not to exist for the purposes of this Bylaw, even if a Participating Municipality is a participating member of the other inter-municipal TNS Business licence scheme. 20. This bylaw may be cited as "White Rock Inter Municipal Transportation Network Service (TNS) Business Licence Bylaw, 2020, No. 2473" | RECEIVED FIRST READING on the | | 15th day of May, 2023 | |---------------------------------|-------------|-------------------------| | RECEIVED SECOND READING on the | 15th day of | May, 2023 | | RECEIVED THIRD READING on the | 15th day of | May, 2023 | | ADOPTED on the | 12"h day of | | June, 2023   Cel Ket MEGAN KNIGHT, MAYOR Vother: TRACEY ARTHUR, DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE ADMINISTRATION