Municipal Regulation

The Cities Act, The Municipalities Act and The Northern Municipalities Act, 2010 provide municipalities with powers in broad areas. Each of these statutes is intended as enabling legislation. The responsibilities that are mandatory for municipalities in these acts are quite limited, except for property assessment and taxation and maintenance of streets, roads or other public places. Most municipal responsibilities are structured as "enabling". (PDF 56 KB)

Municipal councils have discretionary use of their authority to pass bylaws to regulate activities in their municipality.  This website provides information and links on a variety of bylaws, bylaw examples, bylaw factsheets and links to municipal websites hosting their bylaws.

Licensing and taxi bylaws throughout cities and towns in Saskatchewan shows a wide variety of taxi licensing practices.  Saskatchewan cities and towns with a taxi service follow either the business licensing bylaw set out in The Cities Act, or specific taxi bylaw legislation previously set out in The Urban Municipality Act, 1984.   (PDF 58 KB)

A comparison of how taxi systems are set up in comparable Western Canadian cities, including the number of licences allowed, licence fees and any issues or suggested reforms within their taxi industry.   (PDF 47 KB)