Bill 50 — A Bill To Amend the Ljounty Act (Legislature 14, Session 5)

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Alberta — Bills

No. 50 5th Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 11 EHzabeth II BILL 50 A Bill to amend The LJounty Act HON. MR. HOOKE Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, A1berta, 1963

Explanatory Note 2. The chairman of the county council is renamed the reeve of the county council. 3. See note to clause 2. 4. See note to ,clause 2. s. A new

section is added providing for the appointment of representatives of towns and villages and rural school districts to attend the first meeting of the county council in the first year after a county has been organized in order that such representatives can enter into the discussion and determination of the rotation of town and village and rural school district members on the school committee.

BILL No. 50 of 1963

An Act to amend The County Act (Assented to , 1963) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The County Act, being

chapter 64 of the Revised statutes, is hereby amended.

Section 9a, subsection (1) is amended by striking out the word "chairman" and by substituting the word "reeve".

Section 11 is amended by striking out the word "chair man" and by substituting the word "reeve".

Section 12 is amended by striking out the words" chair ,man shall be" and by sulbstituting the words "reeve shall be". 5. The following

section is added after

section 16: 1&.

(1) Immediately after the publication of the order establishing a county in the Alberta Gazette, the secretary treasurer of the school division to be incorporated in the county, shall notify (

a) the council of, each town or village included in the county for school purposes, and (

b) the Minister of Educaltion in the case of each rural school district incorporated into the county for school administrative purposes, of the formation of the county and the date set for the first meeting of the county council.

(2) The council of ·each town or village shall appoint a representative having the same qualifications as are re quired for a member of a council of a town or village under The Town and Village Act.

(3) The Minister of Education shall apPO'int an elector of one of the rural school dis,tricts as set out in sectiO'n 17a as a representative O'f the districts.

(4) A representative appointed under this

section may attend the first meeting of the county council and if the town or village or the rural school district or group O'f districts, which he represents is or becomes, pursuant to'

Section 17, sUibsection (4) reads: "

(4) If the number of s'chOoOIl districts refe,rred to in subsections (2) and (3) exceeds three, the clOunty council shalil arrange fur the representation of the towns or villages included in the school dLstricts referred to in subsect,ion (3) in rotation frlOm year to ye'ar in sUlCh a manner that the total number of me,mbers representing towns and villages aupointed under both subsec1i'ons (2) and (3) doe,s not exceed three.".

Section 17a, subsections ('1) and (3) read: 17a.

(1) Wl>ere one or mOl"e rural ,SChOOIl di'stricts have been in corporated into a county for sc~o{)'l administrative purp'OIses only, the electors of all the rural s'cho.ol districts so inconpo~ated may eleCtt an elector of one of the distritC'ts as their representative who, subject to subsection (1a), shain be appointed by the county council to be a member of the ,school committee. (3) 'rl1e term of of'fice Df a person elected pu~stUant to this s'ection shall be for a period of two years commencing on the third day of April following Ms election.".

Section 20., subsection (3) presently reads: "

(3) Subject to the limitations and reservations mentioned in sub sec'tion (1), the chadrrnan of each committee may exercise or peclorm the rights, duties, privhleges and p·owers of the l'eeve Df a municd'prulity, Dr the chail'man of the bDard Df trustees Oof a SChDO~ divLsion, as the case may be, in like manner and with the same eff,oot as if the same were exerci'sed Dr performed by the cllairman of the county councill.". See note to clause 2 of this Bill. 9. Grammatical error in subsection (1) and an incorrect crO'ss reference to a

section in another Act aTe cOI'lrected. 10. Commencement of Act.

2 subsection (4) of

section 17, entitled to a representative on the school committee, he shall be appointed to it by the county council.

Section 17 is amended by adding the following after subsection (4a) : (4b) Notwithstanding subsection (4), the towns and vil lages given representation on the school committee during the first year after the formation of the county shall !be entitled to representation on the school committee until the fifth Monday following the fourth Wednesday in Septemiber during that year and for two years, more.

Section 17a is amended by striking out subsection (3) and by SUbstituting the following:

(3) The term of office of a person elected pursuant to this

section com'mences on the date of his election and con tinues for a period of two years or until his successor is sworn into offi'ce and the county council -shall appoint him to the school committee at its first regular meeting held after the date of his election.

(4) The term of office of a person appointed pursuant to

section 16a to represent the rural school districts, com mences on the date of his appointment and continues until a representative has been elected pursuant to subsection (2) in the year following the effective date of the formation of the county.

Section 2-0, subsection (3) is amended by striking out the words "chairman of the county council" and by ou:bstituting the words "reeve of the county council".

Section 2'6 is amended (

a) as to sulbsection (1) by striking out the words "lands, improvements" and by substituting the words "lands and improvements", (

b) as to subsection (2), claus-e (

a) by striking out the figures "33'3" and by substituting the figures "3:31". 10.

(1) This Act, except

section 6, comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

(2) Section 6 comes into force on the first day of January, 1964.

No. '50 FIFTH SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE 11 ELIZABETH II 1963 BILL

An Act to amend The County Act Received and read the First time Second time Third Time HON. MR. HOOKE Title: 1963 (14th, 5th) Bill 50,

An Act to amend The County Act

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