Bill 129 — A Bill To Provide Authority For An Assessment Of-' Certain Property Owned By Industries and Utilities (Legislature 14, Session 1)

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Alberta — Bills

No. 129 1st Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 8 Elizabeth II BILL 129 A Bill to Provide Authority for an AssessMent of-' Certain Property Owned by Industries and Utilities HON. MR. HOOKE Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1960

Explanatory Note General. This Bill will authorize the assessment of certain specified industrial plants and pipe lines and electric power transmission lines and works, in the year 1960 for the purposes set out in the Bill. 2.

Definitions.

BILL No. 129 of 1960

An Act to Provide Authority for an Assessment of Certain Property Owned by Industries and Utilities (Assented to , 1960) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Industries and Utilities Assessment Act". 2.

In this Act, (a) "Advisory Committee" means the Provincial Mun icipal Advisory Committee created by Order in Council No. 136/59, dated Thursday, January 27th, 1959, and consisting of those members appointed thereto from time to' time by the Lieutenant Gov ernor in Council; (b) "Minister" means the Minister of Municipal Af fairs; (c) "municipality" means a city, town, new town, vil lage, municipal district, county, improvement district, special area or school district in a national park; (d) ",pipe line" means a line of pipe including loops, 'by-passes and the valves, cleanouts, measuring de vices, fastenings, appurtenances thereto situate in, on or under a continuous strip of land, right of way or easement and used for or that forms part of any system fO'r the conveyance or transmission of gas or oil or both or any product or by-product thereof and includes (

i) flare lines, (ii) flow lines, (iii) gathering lines, (iv) distribution lines, (

v) transportation lines, (vi) any pipe for the conveyance or disposal of any water, salt water or gas used in or incidental to the production of gas or oil or both, (vii) any pipe in any gas well, oil well or gas and oil well, water source and injection wells, gas and liquid petroleum inj ection wells and salt water disposal wells, and

2 3. Purpose of Act. 4. Specified assessments.

2 (viii) pipe line rights of way or easements, but does not include (ix) well control head installations, (

x) the intake valve or outlet valve or any in stallations, materials, devices, fittings, appar atus, appliances, pipe, equipment or plant machinery between such valves in any oil or gas processing, refining, manufacturing, marketing, pumping, treating, separating, or storage facilities, or (xi) buildings used to house plant-machinery, or used as offices, or used as dwelling houses of employees or the land on which such buildings are situated; (e) "plant" means an i~dustrial plant referred to in clause (

a) of

section 4 or designated pursuant to that provision; (/) "Supervisor" means the Supervisor of Assessments appointed pursuant to The Municipalities Assess ment and Equalization Act; (g) "works and transmission lines" means (

i) the installations, materials, devices, fittings, apparatus, appliances, equipment, plant machinery, rights of way and easements, con structed or acquired for or used in the genera tion, transformation, transmission, distribu tion, delivery, sale or use of electricity, but (ii) does not include buildings used to house pla'nt machinery, or used as offices, or used as dwelling houses of employees or the land on which such buildings are situate. 3.

The purpose of this Act is to provide authority for the assessment of plants, pipe lines and works and transmis sion lines and to obtain thereby all necessary information bearing upon the mode or method or desirability of uniform assessment of plants, pipe lines and works and transmis sion lines, as a basis for future taxation at a uniform rate by or on behalf of municipalities. 4. During the year 1960, the Supervisor shall make or cause to be made an assessment of: (

a) the buildings, structures, machinery and equipment of petroleum refineries, petro-chemical plants, nitrogen plants, gas absorption plants, gas scrub bing plants, ore refineries, cement plants, lime plants, caustic soda plants, sulphur plants, fertilizer plants, sugar beet plants, pulp plants, salt plants, and any manufacturing or processing plant, which may be designated by the Minister as a plant to which this Act applies, together with the lands used in connection with such buildings, structures, machinery or equipment;

3 s. Manner of assessment. 8. Information to Supervisor of Assessments. 7. Penalty for failure to furnish information. 8. Inspection of plants and p1pe lines, etc. 9. Compilation of information furnished to Supervisor of Assess ments.

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b) pipe lines; (

c) works and transmission lines. 5.

(1) In making an assessment pursuant to this Act, the Supervisor shall determine all assessments at fair actual value in accordance with the standards and methods prescribed by the regulations under this Act.

(2) In determining for the purposes of this Act what constitutes a building, structure, machinery or equipment of a plant, the Supervisor shall have regard to and be gov erned by the definition of "improvement" in The Assess .. ment Act, 1960, so far as the subject matter of the assess .. ment permits. 6.

A person who is the owner of or who has control of any property that is or may be liable to assessment pursuant to this Act shall, upon receipt of a request therefor from the Supervisor, transmit to the Supervisor a signed state ment containing such information as may be required by the Supervisor for the purpose of enabling him to make an assessment of the property and to determine any municipal and other services and burdens that in any way arise out of or as a direct or indirect result of the location of the in .. dustry, pipe line or works and transmission lines, as the case maybe. 7. A person referred to in

section 6 who (

a) fails or refuses to furnish the information required, (

b) fails to furnish the information required within the time limited by the Supervisor, or (

c) knowingly makes any false statement in respect thereof, is guilty of an offence and liable on

summary conviction to a fine of not more than two hundred dollars and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceed .. ing three months. 8. The Supervisor, or any person designated by him for the purpose, shall be permitted to inspect and examine any plant or pipe line or w-orks and transmission lines to which this Act applies, at any time during the ordinary operating hours of the plant, pipe line or works. and transmission lines, and for that purpose the Supervisor and any person so designated has a right of access over any lands upon which any part of the plant, pipe line or works and transmission lines, as the case may be, are situated. 9.

(1) The Supervisor shall compile the information furnished to him and shall as soon as practicable thereafter present it to the Advisory Committee.

4 10. Power to make regulations. II. Assessments under this Act additional to other assessments. 12. Commencement.

(2) When the infO'rmatiO'n is presented to' the Advisory CO'mmittee, the AdvisO'ry CO'mmittee shall cO'nduct such in vestigatiO'ns as may be required by the Lieutenant GovernO'r in CO'uncil and shall thereafter repO'rt its findings and recommendatiO'ns to' the Lieutenant GO'vernO'r in CO'uncil.

(3) If the AdvisO'ry CO'mmittee requires further infO'rma tiO'n fO'r the purpO'ses O'f "its investigatiO'ns, it may require the SupervisO'r to' make such further assessments O'r cO'm pilatiO'ns as the AdvisO'ry CO'mmittee cO'nsiders necessary. 10. The Minister may make regulatiO'ns prO'viding fO'r any matter O'r thing deemed necessary O'r advisable to' facilitate the carrying O'ut O'f the purpO'se O'f this Act. 11.

Assessments made pursuant to' this Act are nO't to' be in substitutiO'n fO'r O'r in lieu O'f any O'ther assessment of property authorized or required under O'r pursuant to' any other Act O'f the PrO'vince, but are fO'r the purpO'se O'f this Act only. 12. This Act cO'mes JntO' fO'rce O'n the day upon which it is assented to'.

No. 129 FIRST SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLA TUIE 8 ELIZABETH II 1960 BILL

An Act to Provide Authority for an Assessment of Certain Property Owned by Industries and Utilities Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ....................... . Third time ......................................... . HON. MR. HOOKE Title: 1960 (14th, 1st) Bill 129,

An Act to Provide Authority for an Assessment of Certain Property Owned by Industries and Utilities

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