BILL NO. 67
(as passed)
2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010
Halifax Regional Municipality Charter
(amended)
CHAPTER 16 OF THE ACTS OF 2010
The Honourable Ramona Jennex
Minister of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
First Reading: May 5, 2010 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)
Second Reading: May 6, 2010
Third Reading: May 10, 2010
Royal Assent: May 11, 2010
An Act to Amend Chapter 39
of the Acts of 2008,
the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Section 3 of Chapter 39 of the Acts of 2008, the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter, is amended by adding immediately after clause (n) the following clause:
2 Subsection 30(4) of Chapter 39 is amended by striking out "minor" in the second line.
3 Chapter 39 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 98 the following Section:
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act of the Legislature authorizing a tax on the assessed value of property, no change in use tax is payable by reason of a property becoming conservation property.
(3) Where any land, or part thereof, to which this Section applies, ceases to be conservation property, a change in use tax, determined by the assessor pursuant to the Assessment Act, equal to twenty per cent of the value of the land, or part thereof, that ceased to be conservation property is due and payable to the Municipality by the person determined by the assessor to have been responsible for the change in use.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), no change in use tax is payable by reason of the ownership of conservation property being transferred to Her Majesty in right of the Province or Canada or to a municipality.
(2) Subsection 190(3) of Chapter 39 is repealed and the following subsections substituted:
(4) The Council may make by-laws, for municipal purposes, establishing watercourse buffer zones in which existing trees or vegetation must be retained or only removed pursuant to a municipal permit.
(a) striking out "minimum" in the first line of clause (a); and
(b) striking out "maximum" in clause (h).
6 Subsection 281(3) of Chapter 39 is amended by adding immediately after clause (j) the following clauses:
(jb) in areas where hydrogeological impact assessments are required, water supply standards that must be met before a subdivision can be approved, for quantity, sustainability of water supply and for the cumulative impact on water supplies outside of the proposed subdivision;
(a) striking out "(1)" in the first line; and
(b) striking out "buildings" in the second line of clause (a) and substituting "properties, including buildings, and other locations".
8 (1) Subsection 331(1) of Chapter 39 is amended by adding "or remove or alter a fence" immediately after "vegetation" in the second line.
(2) Subsection 331(2) of Chapter 39 is amended by
(a) adding "or remove or alter a fence" immediately after "vegetation" in the second and third lines; and
(b) adding "or the fence to be removed or altered, as the case may be" immediately after "trimmed" in the third line.
9 Chapter 39 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 370 the following Section:
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