BILL NO. 10

1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47 Elizabeth II, 1998

 

Local Bill

 

Queens Regional Municipality Act
(amended)

CHAPTER 40 OF THE ACTS OF 1998

 

John G. Leefe
Queens

 

First Reading: June 2, 1998

Second Reading: November 9, 1998

Third Reading: November 17, 1998 (NO AMENDMENTS)

Royal Assent: December 3, 1998

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1 Clauses 105(2)(c), (d) and (e) of Chapter 9 of the Acts of 1995, the Queens Regional Municipality Act, are repealed.

2 Chapter 9 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 115 the following Sections:

115A (1) The Council may, by administrative order, name or rename any public or private street, road or lane.

(2) The Council may, by by-law, require the owner of any land that is a private street, road or lane to

(a) apply for permission to erect a sign or signpost that identifies the street, road or lane by the name assigned to it pursuant to subsection (1) to any authority whose permission is required, under the law of the Province, to erect the sign or signpost and use the owner's best efforts to obtain such permission; and

(b) erect a sign or signpost of such size and design and in such location and in such a manner as is prescribed by the by-law, where permission is obtained to erect the signpost in accordance with clause (a).

115B (1) The Council may, by by-law

(a) assign or cause to be assigned a civic number to any building or change the civic number;

(b) require the owner or occupier of any property upon which a building is located to affix to the building or property the civic number assigned to the building or as changed pursuant to clause (a), with power to prescribe the size, design and location of the civic number that the owner or occupier is so required to affix and the manner in which it is affixed.

(2) Where regulations are made pursuant to clauses 14(1)(c) and (d) of the Emergency "911" Act, any by-law that is made pursuant to clause (1)(b) ceases to be in force as long as the regulations are in force.

 

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