Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 20

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 Affairs

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Municipalities Act, 1999 to provide

that municipal councillors be given the full financial year plus a grace period

of the first 31 days of the next financial year before their seats would be

automatically vacated for tax arrears.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT,

Analysis

S.103.1 R&S

Notice of tax status

2. S.206 Amdt.

Vacancies

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24

as amended

Section 103.1 of the Municipalities Act, 1999 is repealed and the following substituted:

Notice of tax

status

103.1 The

clerk shall, in writing, not more than 40 days and not fewer than 30 days

before the end of the financial year, advise each councillor of the status of

that councillor's tax account.

2. Paragraph 206(1)(

e) of the Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

(

e) he or she remains indebted to the council for

outstanding taxes 31 days after the end of the financial year;

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer