Bill 72 (Legislature 16, Session 3)

L16 S3 4764

Alberta — Bills

1970 Bill 72 Third Session, 16th Legislature, 19 En~-n l,l" r J P THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 72

An Act to amend The Alberta Government Telephones Act and The Water, Gas, Electric and Telephone Companies Act THE MINISTER OF TELEPHONES First Reading ............................. . Second Reading ............................ . Third Reading ............................. . Printed by L. S. Wall, Queen's Printer, Edmonton

BILL 72 1970

An Act to amend The Alberta Government Telephones Act and The Water, Gas, Electric and Telephone Companies Act (Assented to , 1970) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Alberta Government Telephones Act is hereby amended.

Section 19 is amended by striking out subsection (3) and by substituting the following:

(3) A by-law of a municipal district made pursuant to

section 247 of The Municipal Government Act does not ap ply to the system of the commission. 3. The following

section is added after

section 29: 29a. The commission is not bound by any assignment by an employee of the commission of salary or wages owing to him or of his future salary or wages or by any assign ment of any other existing or future debt of the commis sion unless (

a) the Minister consents to the assignment in a par ticular case, or (

b) the assignment is included in any class of assign ments designated by an order of the Minister as exempt assignments for the purposes of this sec tion.

Section 34 is amended by renumbering the

section as subsection (1) and by adding the following subsections:

(2) Subject to subsection (3), the commission may each year pay to any municipality within which any of its premises are situated a grant not exceeding the amount that would be recoverable if the premises were subject to the business tax of the municipality for that year.

I. This Bill amends

chapter 85 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1958. and

chapter 361 of the Revised Statutes. 2. A cross reference amended. 3. A.G.T. not bound by wage assignments. 4. Grant in lieu of business taxes authorized.

Section 34 pres ently reads: 34. The commission may each year pay to any municipality within which any of its property is situated, a grant not exceeding the amount that would be reco·verable by the municipality if the property, as valued under sections 4 and 5 of The Municipal and Provincial Properties Valuation Act, was subject to the ordinary taxes, other than frontage taxes, levied by the municipality -in that year.

(3) No grant shall be paid under subsection (2) in re spect of premises that form the site of property valued under

section 5 of The Jl1unicipal and Provincial Properties Valuatio'r/, Act in the same year a grant is paid under sub section (1) in respect of that property. 5. The Water, Gas, Electric and Telephones Companies Act is amended by striking out

section 8 and substituting the following: 8. No company or municipality shall erect or install wires or cables for the transmission of electricity for any purpose until (

a) it has filed with The Alberta Government Tele phones Commission plans showing the location, height or depth of overhead and underground wires or cables and such other information as the com mission may from time to time require, and (

b) the plans have been approved by The Alberta Gov ernment Telephones Commission. 6. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

5. Commission to approve plans for the installation of overhead and underground cables. 2 Title: 1970 (16th, 3rd) Bill 72,

An Act to amend The Alberta Government Telephones Act and The Water, Gas, Electric and Telephone Companies Act

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L16 S3 4764
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L16 S3 4764
Language	en
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Source	PROVINCIAL
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