Bill 99 (Legislature 14, Session 2)

L14 S2 2055

Alberta — Bills

No. 99 2nd Session, 14th Legislature, Alberta 9 Elizabeth II BILL 99 A Bill to amend The Public Utilities Board Act HON. MR. HOOKE Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Moat Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1961

Explanatory Note General. This amendment is in addition to the authority of the Board granted under

section 187 (1) and (2) which reads as follows: "187.

(1) In this section. (a) "proprietor munic1ipality" means a municipality that owns, operates, m3!nages or controls a pubJic utility; (b) "public utility" includes, in addition to its defined meaning under

section 2, a sewerage system.

(2) Upon appLication by a municipality or, in the case of an im provement diS'tTict. the MinilOtcr, the Board may by order require the proprietor municipality (

a) to deliver, supply and furnish water, light or power, as the case may be, at a place to be designated by the Boai'd and to do so on such terms and conditions as to the Board seem proper, and (

b) to make available, on such terms and conditions as to the Board seem proper, to the municipality or improvement district making the application or on whose behalf the application was made, the sewage disposal facilities of a proprietor mUncipality."

BILL No. 99 of 1961

An Act to amend The Public Utilities Board Act ( Assen ted to , 1961) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Public Utilities Board Act, being

chapter 85 of the Statutes of Alberta, 19'60, is hereby amended. 2. The following new

section is added immediately after

section 187: 187a.

(1) Where an application under

section 187 is made by a municipality because the water supply most suitable or most economically available to the municipality is unfit for the usual municipal purposes as a result of pollution that appears to be caused by any other munici pality or person, the Board may make such other munici pality and person, or any of them, a party to the pro ceedings.

(2) Where the Board finds that any municipality or person is wholly or partly responsible for the poUution of such water supply, it may, when requiring the proprietor municipality to deliver, supply and furnish water to the applying municipality pursuant to

section 187, (a) (b) (

c) direct and authorize the proprietor municipality, or any other municipality, to construct and maintain a pipe line and 8uch other works as may be neces sary for the delivery of the water to the applying municipality, order any municipality or person found wholly or partly responsible for the pollution of such water supply to bear such portion of the cost of building and maintaining the water delivery system as the Board considers equitable, and fix the rates that may be charged by the proprietor municipality to the applying municipality for the water to be supplied.

(8) The Board may, from time to time, review and alter any order made under this

section and may amend the order to include any further municipalities or persons found to be partly responsible for the pollution. 3. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 99 SECOND SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLA lURE 9 ELIZABETH II 1961 BILL

An Act to amend The Public Utilities Board Act Received and read the First time ........................... . Second time ....................................... . Third time ......................................... . HON MR. HOOKE Title: 1961 (14th, 2nd) Bill 99,

An Act to amend The Public Utilities Board Act

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