Number: 28
Name: Respecting Special Sewer Taxes
1977 NOVEMBER SESSION - BY-LAW NO. 28
BE IT RESOLVED that the following be and the same is hereby adopted and enacted as a By-law of Halifax County Municipality when and if the same has received the approval of the Minister of Municipal Affairs, and that the Municipal Clerk be and he is hereby instructed to forward the same to the Minister and request his approval hereof.
A BY-LAW RESPECTING SPECIAL SEWER TAXES
Title
1. This By-Law shall be known as and may be cited as the "1977 Special Sewer Taxes By-Law."
Definitions
2. In this By-Law unless the context otherwise indicates:
(a) "combined sewer service" means the service that includes both a sanitary sewer and either a storm sewer or a storm drain vested in or under the control of the Municipality;
(b) "sanitary sewer" means a sewer receiving and carrying water born wastes from residences, business buildings, institutions and industrial establishments, and to which storm, surface or ground wastes are not intentionally admitted;
(c) "sewer" means a pipe or conduit for carrying sewage, storm water or surface runoff or sewage and storm water and surface runoff, and includes all sewer drains, storm sewers or storm drains and combined sewer services of every description vested in or under the control of the Municipality.
3. Where prior to the effective date of this By-Law no special tax has been levied in respect of a public sanitary sewer, the special tax levied under the provisions of subsection (1) of Section 46 of Chapter 87 of the Acts of 1962, as amended by Section 2 of Chapter 111 of the Acts of 1973, is hereby fixed and determined at 15.00 Dollars, for each lineal foot of real property on the street in which the public sanitary sewer is built or has been built, in Bedford-Sackville and 12.95 Dollars for each lineal foot of real property on the street in which the public sanitary sewer is built or has been built in Cole Harbour - Westphal - Eastern Passage.
.4. The special tax levied under the provisions of subsection (1) of Section 46A of Chapter 87 of the Acts of Nova Scotia, 1962, as amended by Section 4 of Chapter 11 of the Acts of 1973, is hereby fixed and determined at 23.85 Dollars for each lineal foot of real property on the street in which the combined sewer service is built or has been built in Bedford-Sackville and 22.95 Dollars for each lineal foot of real property on the street in which the combined sewer service is built or has been built in Cole Harbour - Westphal - Eastern Passage.
5. Where prior to the effective date of this By-Law no special tax has been levied in respect of a public sanitary sewer, the special tax levied under the provisions of subsection (1) of Section 47 of Chapter 87 of the Acts of Nova Scotia 1962, as amended by Section 7 of Chapter 111 of the Acts of 1973, is hereby fixed and determined at 15.00 Dollars, for each lineal foot of real property fronting on the street in Bedford-Sackville and 12.95 Dollars for each lineal foot of real property fronting on the street in Cole Harbour - Westphal - Eastern Passage. (Amended November 15, 1977, Approved December 1, 1977).
6. The special tax levied under the provisions of subsection (1) of Section 47A of said Chapter 87 as amended by Section 7 of Chapter 111 of the Acts of 1973, is hereby fixed and determined at 23.85 Dollars for each lineal foot of real property fronting on the street in Bedford - Sackville and 22.95 dollars for each lineal foot of real property fronting on the street in Cole Harbour - Westphal - Eastern Passage. (Amended November 15, 1977, Approved December 1, 1977).
7. The rate of interest chargeable on the entire amount from time to time outstanding of any special taxes levied under this By-Law from the date on which the entire amount first becomes due has been paid is fixed at eleven percent per annum.
THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the By-law of which the annexed is a true copy was duly passed at a duly called meeting of the Municipal Council of Halifax County Municipality duly held on the 15th day of November, A.D. 1977.
GIVEN under the hand of the Municipal Clerk and under the corporate seal of the said Municipality this 16th day of November, A.D. 1977. Municipal Clerk