Bill 8 (Legislature 9, Session 4)

L9 S4 7613

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 8 of 1944.

An Act to amend the Ordinances and Acts relating to the City of Red Deer. , 1944.)

WHEREAS the City of Red Deer has prayed for certain amendments to

chapter 42 of the Consolidated Ordin ances of the North-West Territories, 1901, entitled "An Ordinance to incorporate the Town of Red Deer" and amend ments thereto and the Ordinances and Acts respecting the Town and City of Red Deer; and

Whereas it is expedient to grant the prayer in the said petition; Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and con sent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

Section 95 of ,chapter 70 of the Consolidated Ordin ances of the North-West Territories, being The Municipal Ordinance and being part of the charter of the City of Red Deer, is amended by adding the following new subsection: "

(100) The ,council of the City of Red Deer may, by resolution, authorize the sale of any personal property which may have been seized or which may have come into the possession of the City of Red Deer by police action at any time after the expiration of twelve months from the date upon which su;ch personal property shall have been seized or shall have come into the possession of the City of Red Deer." ,

Section 7 of

chapter 36 of the Statutes, of Alberta, 1913 (second session), is hereby amended by inserting in said

section 7, after the figures "18," and the words "of The Municipal Ordinance, being

chapter 70 of the Consolidated Ordinances of the N orth- West Territories, 1898." 3. Said

section 7 of

chapter 36, of the Statutes of Alberta, 1913 (second session), is hereby further amended by insert ing in

section 7 of the said Statute the following subsection: "

(3) If any person whose name does not appear on the voters' list in use at any ele;.ction for councillor or for school trustee in the City of Red Deer or the Red Deer Public School District No. 104,-

" (a) 2 presents to the returning officer or .deputy return ing officer a certificate in the followIng form: "I, .... .' ........... '" ......................... , do hereby certify that the name of ................................................. was. inadver- tently omitted from the voters' list founded on the assessment roll of the City of Red Deer for the year ................ . Secretary -Treas urer," and "(

b) takes the following oath: "1. I, ............................................... , am assessed on the last revised assessment roll 'Of the City of Red Deer; "2. That my name does not appear on the voters' list founded upon the said roll; "3. That I have not voted at this election;" the returning officer or deputy returning officer shall add the name of such person to the voters' list followed by the word "sworn" or "affirmed," and such person shall there upon be entitled to vote at the said election. 4.

Chapter 70 of the Consolidated Ordinances of the North-West Territories, being The Municipal Ordinance and being part of the charter of the City of Red Deer as amended by

section 19, ~hapter 36 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1913 (second session), is further amended by adding to

section 226 the following subsection: "

(4) In the event of the principal resident officer in the City of Red Deer or in the Red Deer Public School District No. 104 of any incorporated company being entitled to vote in his own right as a burgess, such incorporated company may 'appoint some 'Other resident offi-cial or employee, not otherwise qualified to vote, to vote on its behalf on any money by-law submitted to the burgesses in the City of Red Deer or in the Red Deer Public School District No. 104."

Section 6 of

chapter 68 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1942, is hereby struck out and the following

section is hereby substituted therefor: "6. The council of the City of Red Deer may, by resolu tion, authorize,- "(

a) the investment ~f the surplus funds of any utility owned by the CIty of Red Deer at any time and from time to time in securities of the Dominion of Canada or ~ny . debentures or securities the pay ment of whIch IS guaranteed by the Dominion of Canada, or in debentures owing by the Board of the Red Deer Municipal Hospital District No. 15 and by the board of trustees of the Red Deer Public School District No. 104; " (

b) the application of the said surplus funds towards payment or redemption in whole or of any part of the debenture debt of the city or any of the deben-

3 tures representing or constituting such debt or any part of it though not then payable; "(

c) the making of a grant in anyone year from the said surplus funds to the Red Deer public library board of an amount not exceeding one mill on the dollar upon the assessed value of all property liable to taxation for municipal purposes in the City of Red Deer in lieu of making a special levy of the said amount as provided in s'ection 32 of The Public Libraries Act, being

chapter 331 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942; "(

d) the making of a grant in anyone year from the said ,surplus funds to the board of trustees of the Red Deer Public Scho'Dl Distri.ct No. 104 and 'a propor tionate grant to the board of trustees of the North Red Deer Roman Catholic Separate School District No. 17 for the purpose of reducing the amount which the council 'Of the City of Red Deer should levy in order to meet the tax demand of the boards of trustees of the said school districts; "(

e) the making of a grant in anyone year from the said surplus, funds to the Board 'Of the Red Deer Muni cipal Hospital District No. 15 f'Dr the purpose of providing or reducing the amount whi.ch the council of the City of Red Deer should levy in order to meet the tax demand of the said Board of the Red Deer Municipal Hospital District No. 15 as pro vided in The Municipal Hospitals Act, being chap ter 185 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1942; "Provided that the total grants made under subsections (c), (

d) and (

e) of this

section shall not exceed twenty five per cent. of the total net profits earned during the preceding year by all the utilities owned by the City of Red Deer." 6. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

FOURTH SESSION NINTH LEGISLATURE 8 GEORGE VI 1944 BILL

An Act to amend the Ordinances and Acts relating to the City of Red Deer. Received and read the First time ................... . Second time. Third time .... MR. URE. EDMONTON: A Shnitka, King's Printer 1944 Title: 1944 (9th, 4th) Bill 8,

An Act to amend the Ordinances and Acts relating to the City of Red Deer

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L9 S4 7613
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L9 S4 7613
Language	en
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