Third

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 43

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MUNICIPALITIES ACT, 1999

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

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

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

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

KEVIN O'BRIEN

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 permit,

where a town is first constituted, the variation of the ratio of ward

councillors to at large councillors. The amendment would also permit only ward

councillors to be elected. These provisions would apply only for the election

of the first council.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPALITIES ACT,

Analysis

1. S.14 Amdt.

Wards

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1999 cM-24

as amended

Section 14 of the Municipalities Act, 1999 is amended by adding immediately after

subsection (4) the following:

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (4), where a town

is first constituted, the minister may

(

a) fix a number of councillors to be elected for

each ward that results in the total number of councillors elected for the wards

being equal to or exceeding the number of councillors elected at large; or

(

b) direct that all the councillors to be elected

shall represent wards.

(6) At least 6 months before the next scheduled

election under

section 5 of the Municipal

Elections Act , the town council of a town where

(

a) the total number of councillors elected for

the wards at the previous election was equal to or exceeded the number of

councillors elected at large; or

(

b) all the councillors elected were for wards,

shall comply with subsection (4) for the

purpose of the next and subsequent scheduled elections.

(7) Where a town council does not comply with

subsection (6), the minister may fix the number of councillors as if the

minister were the council.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer