44

 

First Session, 48th General Assembly

65 Elizabeth II, 2016

BILL 44

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Received and Read the First Time................................................................

Second Reading............................................................................................

Committee.....................................................................................................

Third Reading...............................................................................................

Royal Assent.................................................................................................

HONOURABLE EDDIE JOYCE

Minister of Municipal Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Municipalities Act, 1999 to

·         allow a council to accept an offer to dispose of personal property at less than its estimated fair market value, or accept an offer to dispose of personal property that is not the highest offer, for the purpose of social or economic development; and

·         grant authority for civic addressing to local service district committees.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE
MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Analysis


        1.   S.201.3 Amdt.
Disposition of property valued at $500 or more

        2.   S.398.1 Added
Names and numbering


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24
as amended

        1. Subsections 201.3(1) and (2) of the Municipalities Act, 1999 are repealed and the following substituted:

Disposition of property valued at $500 or more

201.3 (1) Where the estimated fair market value of real or personal property is $500 or more, a council may, by resolution of 2/3 vote of the councillors in office and with the prior approval of the minister, accept an offer to dispose of the real or personal property at less than the estimated fair market value, or accept an offer to dispose of the real or personal property that is not the highest offer, where the purpose of the disposition is social or economic development.

             (2)  A council shall give public notice of the council's intention to dispose of real or personal property under subsection (1).

 

        2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after section 398 the following:

Names and numbering

398.1 (1) A local service district committee may name and mark all highways within the local service district and may require the owners of all buildings on the highways to number those buildings.

             (2)  A local service district committee may establish an appropriate form and size for the numbering under subsection (1).