No. 69 3rd Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 5 Elizabeth II, 1957 BILL 69 A Bill to amend The Municipal Assistance Act RON. MR. Hoo.;KE EDMONTON, ALBERTA Printed by A. SHNITKA, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1957

Explanatory Note 2. Many parts of the Act are based on the Dominion Census returns of 1951. To bring the Act up to date, all references to the 1951 Dominion Census are being changed to the 1956 Dominion Census. 3. This Act intends that all municipalities should receive an equitable share of the Municipal Assistance Fund. The money available for distribution to urban municipalities is allotted on a per capita basis. Summer villages are disqualified from receiving an equitable share of this money as they have either no perma­ nent population or very small permanent populations in relation to their size.

Summer villages have full-time operation for about three months of the year and the Act is to be amended to provide these villages with grants of approximately one-quarter the amount that they would receive if they were regular villages operating for the full twelve months of the year . .. 4. See note to clause 2. 5,. This

section directs the manner in which the population of a summer village is to be calculated.

BILL No. 69 of 1957

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act (Assented to , 1957) HER MAJ~ST~, by and with the advice and consent of the LegIslatIve Assembly of the Province of Alberta enacts as follows: ' 1. T~e Municipal Ass'istance Act, being

chapter 212 of the RevIsed Statutes of Alberta, 1955, is hereby amended. 2..

Section 4 is amended by striking out the figures "1951" and by substituting the figures "1956".

Section 6 is amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsection: "( 4) In case of a summer village the amount of the fund to be distributed to it shall be one quarter the amount that is produced by the ratio of the population of the summer village to the total population of all urban municipalities." .

Section 7 is amended by striking out the figures "1951" wherever they occur in subsections (3), (4), (5) and (7) and by substituting the figures "1956". 5. The following new

section is added immediately after

section 7: "7 a.

(1) The proper officer of a summer village shall in each year forward an affidavit of census as required by

section 7 but in his affidavit he shall include a statement of the number of taxable parcels of land on which build­ ings are erected as shown in the assessment and tax roll on the thirty-first day of December of the preceding year. "

(2) The population which shall be used in calculating the grant to a summer village under subsection (4) of

section 6, shall be the figure produced by multiplying the number of taxable parcels of land on which .b.uildings ~re erected by the average size of Alberta famIlIes aCOrding to the Dominion Census of 1956.". 6. This Act comes into force on the day upon which the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, come into force, and upon so coming into force shall be deemed to have been in force at all times on and after the 1st day of January, 1957.

THIRD SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 5 ELIZABETH II 1957 BILL

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ........ . Third time ......................................... . HON. MR. HOOKE Title: 1957 (13th, 3rd) Bill 69,

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act