BILL NO. 42
(as introduced)

2nd Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
56 Elizabeth II, 2007
Municipal Government Act
(amended)
Howard Epstein
Halifax Chebucto
First Reading: November 29, 2007
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill requires that, where a municipality expropriates a residential lot of land for a road, the municipality must offer to purchase all of the lot.
An Act to Amend Chapter 18
of the Acts of 1998,
the Municipal Government Act
1 Section 52 of Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1998, the Municipal Government Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsections:
(a) the municipality shall offer to purchase all of the lot; and
(b) where the municipality expropriates any of that land, the municipality shall expropriate all of the lot unless the owner of the lot requests otherwise.
(a) nothing in subsection (4) prevents the owner of a lot from agreeing to sell only part of the lot; and
(b) where a municipality acquires a lot as a result of an offer made pursuant to subsection (4), the municipality may sell any part of the lot that it does not require for the street.
(a) commenced but not completed before; or
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