Bill 277 — Second Session, 21St Legislature, 36 Elizabetii Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 277 An Act To Amend the Municipal Taxation Act (Legislature 21, Session 2)

L21 S2 3158

Alberta — Bills

1987 BILL 277 Second Session, 21st Legislature, 36 Elizabetii II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 277

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL TAXATION ACT MR. TAYLOR First Reading , Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent Bill 277 Mr. Taylor BILL 277 1987

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL TAXATION ACT (Assented to , 1987) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Municipal Taxation Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section l(

j) is repealed and the following is substituted: (j) "farm land" means land used for farming operations and consisting of one parcel or more than one parcel operated as a unit (

i) by a person who derives from the farming operation on tiiat parcel or unit an income sufficient to provide a livelihood, if the parcel or unit contains 20 acres or more or has been reduced to less than 20 acres by expropriation, or (ii) by a person who derives his principal income from the farming operations on that parcel or unit, if the parcel or unit contains less than 20 acres, but does not include any parcel of land within a city, town, new town, village or summer village if it (iii) contains less than 10 acres, or (iv) is zoned for a use other than agriculUire, Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter M-31 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1980. 2

Section l(

j) presendy reads: 1 In this Act, (j) "farm land" means land used for farming operations and consisting of one parcel or more than one parcel operated as a unit (

i) by a person who derives from the farming operation on that parcel or unit an income sufficient to provide a livelihood, if the parcel or unit contains 20 acres or more or has been reduced to less than 20 acres by expropriation, or (ii) by a person who derives his principal income from the farming operations on that parcel or unit, if the parcel or unit contains less than 20 acres. but does not irwlude a parcel less than one acre in area; unless tiie council of the municipality in which it is situated is of tiie opinion tfiat it would be just and equitable to tax the parcel as farm land and designates tiie parcel by resolution as being farm land; Title: 1987 (21st, 2nd) Bill 277,

An Act to Amend the Municipal Taxation Act

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Citation	L21 S2 3158
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