Bill 52 (Legislature 16, Session 2)

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1969 Bill 52 Second Session, 16th Legislature, 18 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 52

An Act to amend The Agricultural Service Board Act "ij;(. MINISTER /oF . AGRICULTURE I First Reading Second Reading Third Reading .. Printed by L. S. Wall, Queen's Printer, Edmonton

BILL 52 1969

An Act to amend The Agricultural Service Board Act (Assented to , 1969) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Agricultural Service Board Act is hereby amended.

Section 2 is amended by adding the following after clause (d) : (d1) "municipality" means a municipal district, county, improvement district or special area;

Section 4 is struck out and the following is substi tuted: 4.

(1) The Minister of Municipal Affairs may, for one or more improvement districts or special areas, constitute an agricultural service board which shall be composed of not less than three and not more than seven members who hold office for a period of one year.

(2) The Minister of Municipal Affairs shall as early in the year as possible appoint the members of the board.

(3) Of the members appointed to the board (

a) one shall be an officer of the Department of Muni cipal Affairs, (

b) one shall be an officer of the Department who shall be nominated by the Minister, and (

c) the remaining member or members, as the case may be, shall be ratepayers of one or more of the improvement districts or special areas, as the case may be, with respect to which the board is con stituted.

Explanatory Notes I. This Bill amends

chapter 9 of the Revised Statutes. 2. Definition added. 3. Provision made for special area agricultural service boards.

Section 4 presently reads: 4.

(1) The Minister of Municipal Affairs may, for one or more im prov.;:ment districts, constitute an agricultural service board which shall be composed of three or five members who hold office for a period of one year. (2) 'rhe Minister of Municipal Affairs shall as early in the year as possible appoint the members of the board. (3) 'Vhen the board consists of three members, (

a) one shall be an officer of the Department of Municipal Affairs, (

b) one shall be a ratepayer of one of the improvement districts with respect to which the board is constituted, and (

c) one shaU be an officer of the Department who shall be nomin ated by the Minister.

(4) When the board consists of five members, (

a) two shall be officers of the Department of Municipal Affairs, (

b) two shall be ratepayers of one or more of the improvement districts with respect to which the board is constituted, and (

c) the fifth shall be an officer of the Department who shall be nomin::tted by the Minister.

Section 5 is amended by adding after the words "im provement district" the words "or special area".

Section 6, subsection (2) is amended by adding after the words "improvement district" the words "or special area".

Section 7 is amended by striking out the words "an improvement district" and by substituting the words "spe cial areas".

Section 8 is amended (

a) by striking out the words "improvement districts," and by substituting the words "an improvement district or special area,", (

b) by striking out the words "or of the improvement district, as the case may be,".

Section 10, subsection (2), clause (

e) is amended by striking out the words "municipal district, county or the improvement district," and by substituting the word "muni cipality" .

Section 12, subsection (1) is amended by striking out all the words before clause (

a) and by substituting the fol lowing: 12.

(1) Where a board finds, from investigation and inquiry, that farm land in a municipality included in the area with respect to which the board has been appointed

Section 17 is amended by striking out the words "the municipal district, county, or improvement district with respect to which a board has been constituted" and by sub stituting the words "a municipality with respect to which the board has been constituted". 1'1. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

Section 5 presently reads: 5. rEhe council of each municipal uistrict, or the Minister oi Municipal Affairs in the case of an improvement district, shall notify the Minister in writing of the appointment of a board and of the names of its members. 5.

Section 6 (2) presently reads:

(2) In the case of a board constituted for an improvement district, the Minister of Municipal Affairs shall name the chairman of the board and the secretary shall be a member of the board representing the Department of Municipal Affairs.

Section 7 presently reads: 7. The bo.ard shall present at the annual meeting of the ratepayers of the municipal district, or in the case of an impr·ovement district or improvement districts at a public meeting when so. directed by the Minister, a

summary of its activities for the preceding year. 7. iSection 8 presently reads: 8. The council .of each municipal district and county, or the Minister of Municipal Affairs in the case of improvement districts, may out of the funds of the municipality or of the impro.vement district, as the case may be, pay, on the same basis as members of a council are paid under The Municipal Government Act, the expenses incurred by the memberR of the board when engaged on official business. 8.

Section 10 (2) (

e) presently reads:

(2) The agreement referred to in subsection (1), may provide for (

e) the construction of a seed cleaning plant at a place, within or without the municipal district, county or the improvement dis trict, and mutually agreecl upon by the partieR concerned and the Minister. 9.

Section 12 (1) presently reads: 12.

(1) Where the board after investigati·o.n and inquiry has found that farm land in a municipal district, or county or in an improvement district included in the area with respect to which a hoard has been appointed (

a) is impoverished or in the process of becoming impoverished through 0) weed infestation, (ii) wind or water erosion, or (iii) any other cause that has seriously affected or that may seriously affect the productivity of the land or the welfare of the owner or occupant of the land, and (

b) may become a menace to the community, the board shall rep.ort its findings to the council or to the Minister of Municipal Affairs, as the case may be.

Section 17 presently reads: 17. '1'0 carry out any duties imposed upon them by this Act, and generally to carry out the purposes of this Act, the agricultural fieldman and any member of the board may, at any reasonable time, and from time to time, enter upon lands in the municipal district, county, or improvement district with respect to which a board has been constituted. Title: 1969 (16th, 2nd) Bill 52,

An Act to amend The Agricultural Service Board Act

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