Bill No. 86 of A BILL TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL ASSISTANCE ACT, 1953 NOTE This Bill amends The Municipa,l Assistance Act, 1953, being

chapter of the Statutes of Alberta,

Section 7, subsection (6) is amended to permit an urban municipality incorporated since to use an alternative method of computing population, that is, by using the figures of an actual census taken by the municipality after and before the year in which the figures are to be used for the grant.

Section 8, subsection (1) is amended to increase the amount of the equalization grant from 331/~ % to 40% of the amount of the rural municipalities fund.

Section 9a· is new. This

section limits the amount of a grant to a rural municipality in any year to $130,000. It also provides that any amount in excess of that sum, which might be obtained by applying the calculations for obtaining the grant, shall be distributed to the remaining rural municipalities of the same class. This Bill comes into force upon assent. J. W. RYAN, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note does not fonn any part of the Bill but is offered in explanation of its provisions.) BILL No. 86 of

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act, 1953 (Assented to , 1955) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Municipal Assistance Act, 1953, being

chapter of the Statutes of Alberta, 1953, is hereby amended.

Section 7, subsection (6) is amended by striking out

Section the word and letter "clause (a)" and by substituting the amended word and letters "clauses (

a) or (b)".

Section 8, subsection (1) is amended by striking out

Section the words "thirty-three and one-third" and by substituting amended the word "forty". 4. The following new

section is added immediately Ne~ after

section 9:

sectIon 9a "9a.

(1) When the total grant to a rural municipality, q:r8;nt as calculated under sections and 9, would exceed one lImlted hundred and thirty thousand dollars in anyone year, the grant payable shall be one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. "

(2) When a surplus arises through the deduction of the grant payable under subsection (1) from the total grant as calculated under sections and 9, the surplus shall be dis­ tributed to the remaining rural municipalities in the class of rural municipalities that the municipality from which the surplus arose belongs, in the proportion that the assess­ ment of land, buildings and improvements for each rural municipality, as determined pursuant to

section 9, bears to the total assessment of land, buildings and improvements of all the remaining rural municipalities of the class. "

(3) For the purpose of this section, rural municipalities Classes of, shall be taken to consist of the following classes: ~~:lit~~m- "(

a) Counties and Municipal Districts, " (

b) Improvement Districts, and " (

c) Special Areas.". 5. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is Coming assented to. into force THIRD SESSION TWELFTH LEGISLATURE ELIZABETH II BILL

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act, 1953 Received and read the First time ....... . Second time. ,Third time ... _ ............... . HON. MR. HINMAN =====-=======--==--==--==.==--=====--===--~=====- Title: 1955 (12th, 3rd) Bill 86,

An Act to amend The Municipal Assistance Act, 1953