No. 10 4th Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 10 Elizabeth II BILL 10 I A Bill to Incorporate Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon MR. MELNYK Printed by 1" S. \VALL, Printer to the Queen's ~rost Excellent Majeety, Edmonton, Alberta, 1962

BILL No. 10 of 1962

An Act to Incorporate Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon (Assented to , 1962) WHERE:AIS a petition has been presented praying for the incorporation of an association of religious women as a body politic and corporate in deed and in name by the name of Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon; and WHEIRE!AS it is expedient to grant the prayer of the said petition: THEREFORE, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. Sister Sylvia, S.S.M.I., Sister Pancratia, S.S.M.I., ~~f~~por.

Sister Magdalene, S.S.M.I. and Sister Anne, S.S.M.I., being all members of Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate and such other persons as are now or may hereafter become, under the provisions of this Act, members of the hereinafter mentioned corporation, shall be and are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate in deed and in name by the name of Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon for the purposes and objects hereinafter set out. 2.

The corporation shall have power to conduct charitable Objects institutions of any kind or nature whatsoever and without in any way restricting the generality of the foregoing, shall have power to conduct hospitals, out-patient clinics, schools of nursing, homes for the aged, convents and chapels and to impart education and moral training to students. 3. The corporation shall have perpetual succession and S~al.

I a common seal, and may at all times hereafter contract and ~~~~~~t~n. be contracted with, sue and be sued, implead and be im- a.nd ~tll.tus pleaded in any matter whatsoever in all courts and places whatsoever in the Province of Alberta. 4. The head office of the corporation shall be at the Ht':\d ofnee Village of Willingdon, in the Province of Alberta, or at such other place in the Province as may from time to time be de- termined by the by-laws of the corporation.

2 Powers ot 5.

The corporation shall have power frOom time to time acquisition II· h ft t . b ·ft d . b t of realty and and at a tImes erea er 0 acquIre y gl , eVIse, eques, personalty transfer, purchase or otherwise for the benefit of the Further powers Protits BorrowIng l'owers corporation any land or real or personal estate and the cor­ poration may from time to time dispose of the same or any part thereof by sale, transfer or mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise, and with the proceeds therefrom may acquire other lands, tenements, hereditaments and other property, real or personal, or invest the same in any security whatso­ ever for the use of the corporation. 6.

The corporation shall have power to erect, construct, equip and maintain buildings, and other erections for the proper carrying on of its educational, hospital and other charitable works and to do all other matters and things necessary for the carrying out of the objects that the cor­ poration may become engaged in or occupied with. 7.

The rents, revenues and profits of all property, real or personal, held by the corporation and the assets and pro­ perty of the corporation shall be appropriated and applied to the maintenance of the institutions carried on by the corporation, and the construction and maintenance of build­ ings and the acquisition of property, real or personal, re­ quisite for the advancement of charity and benevolence and for the furtherance of all or all the Oobjects and works in which the corporation may engage. 8. The corporation in addition to all other powers shall have power (

a) to borrow or raise or secure the payment of money by negotiable instruments and by the issue of de­ bentures or debenture stock, bonds, mortgages or obligations charged upon the property of the cor­ poration, and to extend the period for payment of the same, and to purchase, redeem or payoff any such securities in whole or in part, (

b) to invest its funds, or any portion thereof, e'ither directly in the name of the corporation, or in­ directly in the name of trustees, in the purchase of such securities as it may deem advisable, and also may lend its funds or any portion thereof on any such securities, (

c) to ensure or give any guarantee for payment of any loan, mortgage, bond or debenture issue, obliga­ tions or securities made or issued by the corpora­ tion situate within the Province of Alberta, and (

d) to mortgage or charge all or any part of the pro­ perty of the corporation either for the payment of security for a debt or otherwise.

3 9.

(1) It shall be lawful for the corporation to make By-laws by-laws, rules, orders and regulations for the government and proper administration of the property, affairs and in- Lerest of the said corporation, and to repeal and a~end the same from time to time, including the enforcement of disci- pline and the admission and retirement of members, the appointment, deposition or removal of any persons as members of the corporation, or bearing office therein and generally for the internal government of affairs of the said corporation.

(2) No by-law shall be valid or take effect unless or until it has been approved by the Provincial Superior of the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate. 10. Unless otherwise directed by by-laws the incorpor- Officers ators mentioned herein shall be the officers of the said corporation. 11. The corporation may exercise any activity that may MaJntenance help it to maintain its institutions and may bargain and sell the products of the same provided it conforms to the laws of the Province of Alberta. 12.

Upon presentation to the Registrar of the proper land Vesting titles office of any transfer or other instrument whereby of title any land or interest in land situate in Alberta is being trans­ ferred from The Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate or The Ruthenian Sisters of The Immaculate Conception to the corporation hereby created, the Registrar may without fee or charge therefor do all things necessary to vest such land or interest therein in the name of the corporation, subject to all such encumbrances or charges as may be registered against the title thereof. 13.

The corporation shall at all times when called upon to Accounting do so by the Lieutenant Governor in Council render an account in writing of its property and affairs. 14. The powers herein granted shall be subject to the General laws general laws of the Province now in force or hereafter en- acted. 15. This Act may be cited as "The Mary Immaculate

Short title Hospital of Wnlingdon Act". 16. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is Comtme'!c(kA t mt>1I Ol C assented to.

No. 10 FOURTH SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE 10 ELIZABETH II 1962 BILL

An Act to Incorporate Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon Received and read the First time Second time .... Third time MR. MELNYK Title: 1962 (14th, 4th) Bill 10,

An Act to Incorporate Mary Immaculate Hospital of Willingdon