Bill 109 explained in plain English
Reliable Elevators Act, 2017
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Reliable Elevators Act, 2017, enhances building safety by requiring adequate elevator capacity, improves consumer rights for elevator maintenance, and establishes repair timelines for elevators, with stricter deadlines for care homes.
Bill 109, also known as the Reliable Elevators Act, 2017, makes changes to laws concerning elevators in Ontario. It introduces requirements for elevator capacity in new buildings with seven or more stories, expands consumer protections to elevator maintenance contracts, and sets timelines for repairing broken elevators, with specific, shorter timelines for elevators in long-term care homes and retirement homes. The Act also clarifies when a contractor is considered to have learned about an elevator problem requiring repair.
- Requires that new buildings with seven or more stories have a permit application process that includes demonstrating adequate elevator traffic capacity, unless the building code specifies otherwise.
- Extends consumer protection to individuals and businesses who enter into agreements with contractors for elevator maintenance.
- Mandates timely repairs for elevators that are unavailable for use.
- Specifies repair timelines: generally 14 days, but within seven days for elevators in long-term care homes and retirement homes, unless regulations state otherwise.
- Defines the 'day the contractor first learns of the problem' for the purpose of repair timelines.
- Grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the power to make regulations about the timely repair of elevators.
- Individuals and businesses applying for permits to construct buildings with seven or more stories.
- Contractors responsible for maintaining elevators.
- Owners or occupants of buildings with elevators, particularly those in long-term care homes and retirement homes.
- Individuals and businesses entering into elevator maintenance contracts.
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council.
- Obligation for applicants of building permits for buildings with seven or more stories to show reasonable elevator traffic capacity.
- Right for consumers (including businesses with maintenance contracts) to protection under the Consumer Protection Act, 2002.
- Obligation for elevator maintenance contractors to repair elevators within specified timelines.
- Right for residents of long-term care and retirement homes to have elevators repaired more quickly.
- The Act received Royal Assent on an unspecified date.
- Most provisions of the Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Section 2 of the Act, which amends the Consumer Protection Act, 2002, came into force one year after the day the Act received Royal Assent.
- The specific content of regulations governing the timely repair of elevators is not detailed in the bill, only the authority to create them.
- The bill does not specify the exact date it received Royal Assent, which affects the precise commencement date of certain provisions.
Adds a requirement that permits for buildings with seven or more stories must demonstrate reasonable elevator traffic capacity, consistent with industry standards, unless the building code provides differently.
Source: Section 1
Modifies the definition of 'consumer' to include individuals acting for personal, family, or household purposes, as well as any person who has an agreement with a contractor for elevator maintenance, even if acting for business purposes.
Source: Section 2 (1)
Adds a new Part (Part V.1) that includes provisions for the timely repair of elevators.
Source: Section 2 (2)
Influences the repair timelines for elevators in long-term care homes by specifying a shorter repair period for these facilities.
Source: Section 2 (1)(b)(ii)
Influences the repair timelines for elevators in retirement homes by specifying a shorter repair period for these facilities.
Source: Section 2 (1)(b)(ii)
Adds a provision allowing the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations regarding the timely repair of elevators.
Source: Section 2 (3)
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