ontario regulation 61/01

made under the

municipal Act

Made:  March 15, 2001
Filed:  March 16, 2001
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: March 31, 2001

Amending O. Reg. 26/96

(Fees and Charges By-laws)

1. Ontario Regulation 26/96 is amended by adding the following section:

12. A municipality and a local board do not have the power under section 220.1 of the Act to impose a fee or charge on a generator, transmitter, distributor or retailer, as these terms are defined in section 2 of the Electricity Act, 1998, or on a producer, gas distributor, gas transmitter or storage company, as these terms are defined in section 3 of the Ontario Energy Board Act, 1998, for services or activities, costs payable or the use of property with respect to wires, cables, poles, conduits, pipes, equipment, machinery or other works which,

(a) are or will be located on a municipal highway; and

(b) are or will be used as part of the business of the generator, transmitter, distributor, retailer, producer, gas distributor, gas transmitter or storage company, as the case may be.

Chris Hodgson

Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated on March 15, 2001.