BILL NO. 51
1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47 Elizabeth II, 1998
Queens Regional Municipality Act
(amended)
John G. Leefe
Queens
First Reading: October 28, 1998
Second Reading: November 9, 1998
Private and Local Bills committee: November 16, 1998
Third Reading: November 17, 1998 (NO AMENDMENTS)
Explanatory Notes
Clause 1 repeals a provision that permits the Council of the Region of Queens Municipality to authorize, for the five fiscal years commencing April 1, 1996, the levying and collecting of a separate rate within each former municipal unit by phasing down or up the rate that applied in the municipal unit immediately before April 1, 1996, and replaces it with a provision that permits the Council to authorize, for the ten fiscal years commencing on April 1, 1996, different residential and commercial tax rates in each former municipal unit by phasing down or up the rates that applied within the municipal unit immediately before April 1, 1996.
Clause 2 repeals a provision that permits the Region of Queens Municipality to levy an area rate of so much on the dollar on the assessed value of the residential property assessed in the area and replaces it with a provision that permits the Municipality to levy an area rate of so much on the dollar on the assessed value of the taxable property or occupancy assessments in the area.
Clause 3 repeals a provision that makes a rate levied on an area to recover outstanding deficits, debts, debt charges or other items of past expenditure that the Council determines should be recovered from the ratepayers of the area apply to the assessed value of all taxable property and business occupancy assessments in the area and replaces its with a provision that permits the Council to authorize, for the ten fiscal years commencing on April 1, 1996, the levying and collecting of a separate rate within each former municipal unit for debt charges arising from debt outstanding immediately before April 1, 1996.
An Act to Amend Chapter 9
of the Acts of 1995,
the Queens Regional Municipality Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Clause 71(8)(a) of Chapter 9 is repealed and the following clause substituted:
2 Subsection 76(3) of Chapter 9 of the Acts of 1995, the Queens Regional Municipality Act, is repealed and the following subsections substituted:
(3A) The Council may provide in the resolution setting the area rate that the area rate applies only to the assessed value of one or more of the taxable commercial, residential or resource property or occupancy assessments in the area.
3 Subsection 76(6) of Chapter 9 is repealed and the following substituted:
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