Identity area
Type of entity
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Transportation Regulation Operations Division
Other form(s) of name
Ontario. Transportation Regulation Division
Ontario. Transportation and Regulation Division
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
The Transportation Regulation Operations Division was formed in January 1976 within the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications, assuming the administrative functions of the Licensing Control Division as well as responsibility for the newly created Program Development Branch.
The Transportation Regulation Operations Division was initially known as the Transportation and Regulation Division and reported to the Assistant Deputy Minister of Drivers and Vehicles between 1976 and 1979 (changing its name to the Transportation Regulation Division in 1977). From 1980 until its closure, the Assistant Deputy Minister of Safety and Regulation administered the division. The agency changed its name to the Transportation Regulation Operations Division in 1981.
The division ceased to exist in 1991 when the subordinate branches that it administered began reporting directly to the Assistant Deputy Minister of the Safety and Regulation Division.
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Functions, occupations and activities
The Transportation Regulation Operations Division regulated the licensing of vehicles covered by the Public Vehicles Act (e.g. buses and charter bus operations, for-hire trucks). The division also monitored the performance and qualifications of Ontario drivers and vehicles and provided information on this to the public, courts, and law enforcement agencies. In addition, this agency investigated possible contraventions to various transportation acts and monitored the operation of carriers. After 1980, the division offered systems support for all agencies administered by the Safety and Regulation Division.
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Rules and/or conventions used
RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM
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Sources
Ministry of Transportation and Communications Annual Reports 1979-1987
KWIC Index to Government Services, 1986-1993; Ministry of Transportation Intranet.
Maintenance notes
Archivist(s):
Lisa Singer, Mark Epp