BILL NO. 59

1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
49 Elizabeth II, 2000

Private Bill

Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities Act
(amended)

The Honourable Angus MacIsaac
Antigonish

First Reading: June 7, 2000

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading: October 27, 2000

Third Reading: November 30, 2000 (NO COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS)

This Bill requires the Executive Committee of the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities to appoint, as an officer, a municipal official representing each class of municipal units from which none of the officers is a representative.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 6 of Chapter 103 of the Acts of 1981, the Union of Nova Scotia Municipalities Act, as amended by Chapter 76 of the Act of 1992 and Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1999, is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (6) the following subsection:

(7) Within thirty days of the election of the officers at the Annual Conference, the Executive Committee shall appoint, as an officer, a municipal official representing each of the following municipal units or classes of municipal units from which none of the officers is a representative:

(a) Halifax Regional Municipality;

(b) Cape Breton Regional Municipality;

(c) towns;

(d) municipalities of a county or municipalities of a district and the Regional Municipality of Queens.

2 Subsection 7(1) of Chapter 103, as enacted by Chapter 76 of the Acts of 1992, is amended by adding ", those officers appointed pursuant to subsection 6(7)" immediately after "Secretary - Treasurer" in the second line.