Local Government Act 1990
B.C. Reg. 117/2018
British Columbia — Consolidated Statutes
65/90
O.C. 285/90
February 23, 1990
Local Government Act and Community Charter
Capital Regional District Regulation
[includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 117/2018, June 15, 2018]
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Traffic safety commission
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to establish and operate a traffic safety commission as an extended service.
Local services
The Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, establish and operate services, as local services, that were covered by the objects, powers, obligations, duties, limitations and conditions of the Capital Regional District as set out in Division XXXVII of the Letters Patent of the Capital Regional District on July 30, 1989.
The Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, establish and provide for the operation of services, as local services, that were covered by
the Galiano Island Activity Room Specified Area Establishment and Loan Authorization By-law, 1982, or
the Langford Enhancement Society Specified Area Establishment By-law No. 1, 1988
on July 30, 1989.
[en. B.C. Reg. 105/90.]
Extended services
The Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, establish and operate services, as extended services, that were covered by the objects, powers, obligations, duties, limitations and conditions of the Capital Regional District as set out in
Division VI,
Division XI — Community Health,
Division XXV,
Division XXVI,
Division XXIX,
Division XXXI,
Division XXXVI, or
Division XXXVIII
of Letters Patent of the Capital Regional District on July 30, 1989.
[en. B.C. Reg. 105/90.]
Commonwealth Games Grant-in-Aid
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to provide Commonwealth Games Grant-in-Aid as a local service.
[en. B.C. Reg. 420/90.]
Emergency Programs
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to provide Emergency Programs as an extended service under the Emergency Program Act .
[en. B.C. Reg. 9/93.]
Small craft harbour facilities
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to establish, acquire and operate a service of small craft harbour facilities under
section 550 of the Municipal Act , as a local service.
[en. B.C. Reg. 16/97.]
Towing in parks and on trails
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to allow for the towing of illegally parked vehicles within community parks, regional parks and regional trails under
section 124 (1) (c), (f), (
g) and (
u) of the Motor Vehicle Act as an extended service.
[en. B.C. Reg. 213/97.]
Review and recommendation
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to review and make recommendations to appropriate agencies concerning the operation of emergency radio and electronic communications services for the Capital Regional District.
[en. B.C. Reg. 103/99.]
Section 8 extended service
The service of conducting the review and making the recommendations as described in
section 8 is an extended service.
[en. B.C. Reg. 103/99.]
Emergency communications
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power as an extended service to provide an emergency communications service or to make contributions towards the cost of an emergency communications service operated by another person or organization.
[en. B.C. Reg. 179/2000.]
Voting on
Part 14 decisions for the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area
This
section applies if
a resolution or bylaw under
Part 14 [Planning and Land Use Management] of the Local Government Act applies only to
all or part of the Langford Electoral Area, as it existed on September 1, 1999, or
all or part of the Sooke Electoral Area, as it existed on September 1, 1999, and
voting on the resolution or bylaw would otherwise be subject to the voting rule established by
section 207 (5) [all directors vote if only one otherwise entitled] of the Local Government Act ,
and operates to provide exceptions to the rule established by that section.
If the resolution or bylaw applies only to all or part of what was the Sooke Electoral Area, the persons entitled to vote on the resolution or bylaw are
the directors for
the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area,
the City of Colwood,
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the District of Metchosin, and
the District of Sooke, and
one director for the District of Langford, who must be
the mayor of the municipality, or
if the mayor is not on the board, another director for that municipality who is chosen by the chair of the board to represent the municipality in these matters.
If the resolution or bylaw applies only to all or part of what was the Langford Electoral Area, the persons entitled to vote on the resolution or bylaw are
the directors for
the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area,
the District of Central Saanich,
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the District of Highlands,
Repealed. [B.C. Reg. 126/2013, s. 2 (a).]
one director for the District of Saanich, who must be
the mayor of the municipality, or
if the mayor is not on the board, another director for that municipality who is chosen by the chair of the board to represent the municipality in these matters, and
one director for the District of Langford, who must be
the mayor of the municipality, or
if the mayor is not on the board, another director for that municipality who is chosen by the chair of the board to represent the municipality in these matters.
For the purposes of transition, if an affected bylaw has been given first reading but has not been adopted at the time this
section comes into force, this
section applies only to votes in relation to the bylaw that happen after that time.
[en. B.C. Reg. 287/2001; am. B.C. Regs. 126/2013, ss. 1 and 2; 117/2018, s. 3.]
Acquiring access to regional trails
For the purpose of establishing and maintaining a regional trail, the Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to acquire, by lease, licence or permit for any term, access to or over land within an area designated as set out in
section 4 (1) (
a) of the Park (Regional) Act .
[en. B.C. Reg. 78/2001.]
Emergency Program Act
The Capital Regional District is granted the same power that a municipality has as a local authority under the Emergency Program Act .
[en. B.C. Reg. 126/2004.]
Public health
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to exercise the powers conferred on a council of a municipality under
section 8 (3) (
i) of the Community Charter .
[en. B.C. Reg. 2/2007.]
Animal control authority — domestic cats
The Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, regulate or prohibit the keeping of domestic cats and define areas in which domestic cats may be kept or may not be kept.
For the purposes of enforcing a bylaw under subsection (1), the Capital Regional District may, by bylaw, do one or more of the following:
provide for the seizure, impounding and detention of domestic cats that are being kept in contravention of a bylaw under subsection (1);
establish, maintain and operate facilities as pounds for domestic cats seized, impounded or detained under paragraph (a);
regulate and establish the fines and fees, including damages for domestic cats trespassing on private property, to be levied and collected by pound keepers;
provide for the sale or destruction of impounded domestic cats if the fines and fees are not paid within a reasonable time.
[en. B.C. Reg. 245/2009.]
Stormwater Source Control Program
The Capital Regional District is granted the additional power to exercise the powers conferred on a council of a municipality under
section 8 (3) (
j) of the Community Charter for the purposes of regulating, prohibiting and imposing requirements in respect of discharges to the municipal stormwater system and watercourses.
This power is limited in application to the geographic areas of the municipalities of Central Saanich, North Saanich and Sidney.
[en. B.C. Reg. 340/2012.]
[Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Local Government Act , R.S.B.C. 2015, c. 1,