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BILL NO. 64
Local Bill
3rd Session, 56th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
44 Elizabeth II, 1995-96
An Act to Amend Chapter 3
of the Acts of 1994, the
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Act
CHAPTER 32
ACTS OF 1995-96
The Honourable J. Bernard Boudreau, Q.C.
Cape Breton The Lakes
AS ASSENTED TO BY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
JANUARY 11, 1996
Halifax
Printed by Queen's Printer for Nova Scotia
An Act to Amend Chapter 3
of the Acts of 1994, the
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Section 93 of Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1994, the Cape
Breton Regional Municipality Act, is amended by adding
immediately after subsection (7) the following subsection:
(8) Notwithstanding subsections (5) and (6),
(a) the Council may authorize the levying and
collecting of a separate rate for the area of the
Regional Municipality determined by the Council to be
a rural area receiving a rural level of services and a
separate rate for the area of the Regional Municipality
determined by the Council to be a suburban area
receiving a suburban level of services;
(b) for the five fiscal years commencing August 1,
1995, the Council may authorize the levying and
collecting of a separate rate within each former
municipal unit by phasing down or up the rate that
applied within the municipal unit immediately before
August 1, 1995;
(c) for the ten fiscal years commencing August 1,
1995, the Council may authorize different percentages
pursuant to clause 5(b) within each former municipal
unit by phasing down or up the percentage that applied
within the municipal unit immediately before August 1,
1995;
(d) for the ten fiscal years commencing August 1,
1995, the Council may authorize the levying and
collecting of a separate rate within each former
municipal unit for debt charges arising from debt
outstanding prior to August 1, 1995;
(e) for the period April 1, 1995, to July 31, 1995,
the Council may set tax rates for the area of each
former municipal unit that reflect the actual revenue
requirement for that area for that period; and
(f) the Council may authorize different
percentages pursuant to clause 5(b) for each rate
determined pursuant to clause (a).
2 Section 97 of Chapter 3 is amended by adding
immediately after subsection (5) the following subsections:
(6) The Council may levy a rate 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.
(7) A rate levied pursuant to subsection (6) applies to
the assessed value of all taxable property and business
assessments in the area.
3 This Act has effect on and after August 1, 1995.