First Session, 48th

General Assembly

65 Elizabeth II,

BILL 44

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES

ACT, 1999

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE EDDIE

JOYCE

Minister of Municipal

Affairs

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Municipalities Act, 1999 to

allow a council to accept an

offer to dispose of personal property at less than its estimated fair market

value, or accept an offer to dispose of personal property that is not the

highest offer, for the purpose of social or economic development; and

grant authority for civic

addressing to local service district committees.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

Analysis

S.201.3 Amdt.

Disposition of property valued at $500 or more

S.398.1 Added

Names and numbering

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24

as amended

1. Subsections 201.3(1) and (2) of the Municipalities Act, 1999 are repealed

and the following substituted:

Disposition of

property valued at $500 or more

201.3

(1) Where

the estimated fair market value of real or personal property is $500 or more, a

council may, by resolution of 2/3 vote of the councillors in office and with

the prior approval of the minister, accept an offer to dispose of the real or

personal property at less than the estimated fair market value, or accept an

offer to dispose of the real or personal property that is not the highest

offer, where the purpose of the disposition is social or economic development.

(2) A council shall give public notice of the

council's intention to dispose of real or personal property under subsection

(1).

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section

398 the following:

Names and numbering

398.1

(1) A

local service district committee may name and mark all highways within the local

service district and may require the owners of all buildings on the highways to

number those buildings.

(2) A local service district committee may

establish an appropriate form and size for the numbering under subsection (1).

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