First Session, 45th General Assembly

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 37

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE JACK BYRNE

Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Bill is to amend

the Municipalities Act, 1999 to add a

provision that would allow the minister to direct the manner in which taxes are

to be harmonized when 2 or more towns or areas are amalgamated or annexed.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES

ACT, 1999

Analysis

S.11.1 Added

Taxes upon amalgamation

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24

as amended

1. The Municipalities

Act, 1999 is amended by adding immediately after

section 11 the following:

Taxes upon amalgamation

11.1

(1) Notwithstanding

that a town has imposed taxes and tax rates under

Part V, where an order is

made under paragraph 3(1)(

b) to amalgamate that town or annex an area to that

town, the minister may, in writing, direct the

(

a) manner in which taxes and tax rates applicable

to the amalgamating towns and annexed areas are to be harmonized; and

(

b) time by which the harmonization referred to in

paragraph (

a) is to be carried out.

(2) A direction of the minister under subsection

(1) is binding upon the amalgamated towns and annexed areas to which it

applies.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer