283. (1)A member of the council shall not hold an office or place or employment from, under, or in connection with the council, or in a department of, in, or upon a work, service or business under the control, management, or direction of the council, directly or indirectly or undertake, execute, or enjoy a contract or agreement with the council; (2) 80. Where, after reasonable inquiry, neither the owner of a building or his or her agent can be found in the city, the council may demolish the building and remove the debris and the cost of the demolition may be recovered from the owner at the suit of the council as a civil debt. 340.16 Subject to section 5, where the council fixes a number of councillors to be elected for each ward, the council may also fix a number of councillors to be elected at large. Where the council considers it necessary or desirable to lay water or sewer mains through private lands instead of in a street, the council shall have power to enter on private lands and lay and construct water and sewer mains, and to assess against the owner of each building site, to which the water or sewer mains are available for servicing by pipe connections a building site, the proportion of the total cost of the laying and construction of the mains, including costs and expenses in connection with the acquisition of necessary easements that the street frontage of the building site bears to the total length of street frontages of all building sites to which the mains are available. 378. Where an order made under subsection (1) is signed by the mayor and is promulgated by means of radio or television or in another manner that seems advisable in the circumstances of the emergency, the order becomes effective from the time stated in the order. The council shall have power to make rules and regulations to compel the owner of a building abutting on a sidewalk to, (a) (1)The council may make regulations. to require a person permitted to carry on business, in this section called a licensee, to take out an annual or temporary licence; (e) 313. (3) (3) "tax-exempt fuel oil" means fuel oil purchased or received in the city for use or consumption outside the limits of the city, but shall not include fuel oil delivered to the operators of a ship, other than a ship engaged in the province coastal shipping trade or a fishing vessel, trawler or craft the catch of which is processed in the province. (3) and the regulations made under that Act shall apply. is convicted of an offence for which a summons referred to in subsection (1) or (2) was issued; and, (b) (1)The council shall have power to determine the material with which the sidewalks of a new or existing street or portion of the city shall be covered, and shall, where it seems desirable, cover the sidewalk with brick, concrete, wood or asphalt, or other permanent material, and shall keep the sidewalk in good repair. (5) (4) (a) 43. (2) Employee designation D114: Right-Of-Way Corner Clips. (2) 16. Dogs registration Where an order of the chief medical officer or the council issued under this Act is not complied with, or not substantially complied with, within 5 days after the service of the order, or within the shorter time that he or she or it may designate, then the order shall be executed by the city medical officer or council through his or her or its officers, agents, employees or contractors, and the cost shall be paid by the owner of the building, who shall also be liable to a fine of $5 for every day during which he or she has neglected or refused to obey the order. (1)A person shall not place or keep in or upon a yard, land or premises unsanitary matter or a dilapidated or unsightly machine, vehicle, matter or thing or litter or refuse and a person contravening or violating this subsection shall be liable to all the penalties provided by this Act for a breach of this Act. Quidi is without further proof, presumptive evidence of the content of the code, shorter form of code, extract, amendment, supplement or part of a supplement. 214. 338. "drain" means a drain used for the drainage of 1 building or premises only for the purpose of communicating from it with a sewer, septic-tank, cesspool or other similar receptacle, into which the drainage of 2 or more houses or premises occupied by different persons is conveyed; (i) 27. 309. Short title respecting all other matters for the more effective carrying out of this section. (3) 15.1 The plan to the Act 56 Vic., (Special Session) Cap. Pension schemes (e) Notice of each special appraisement made under this section and stating the amount of the appraisement shall be given to the owner of every property appraised and to every person affected by the special appraisement and a person who objects to the appraisement shall have the right to appeal to the court of revision at its next sitting and where the council objects to the appraisement it shall have the same right of appeal upon giving notice to the persons affected by the appeal, but pending the appeal a tax payable on or in respect of the property shall be paid and collected on the basis of the special appraisement; subject to adjustment where the court of revision varies the appraisement. judge or in a court of record by action at the suit of the city. Power to make by-laws (8) Heritage Buildings Public health A person who contravenes or fails to comply with this section, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding $5 for every day during which the contravention or failure to comply continues, or the fence may be erected by the council and its cost recovered from the owner. 47. Where the repair or clearance required by subsection (5) is not done within the period of time specified, the council may carry out the repair or clearance and the cost of the work done may be levied against the commercial property as a debt due to the city or charged against the land concerned as taxes owing in respect of that land and may sue for and recover the cost of the repair or clearance. 305. The execution of public works, the acquisition of goods or services and the leasing of space by the council shall be in accordance with the Public Tender Act (1)The council shall have power to employ and appoint and fix the salaries of those officers and employees that may be necessary to carry out this Act. Liability sectional plans of the city on a scale of 13.33 m to 2.5 cm, showing the buildings, position and depth of all water pipes, sewers and private drains, manholes, gullies, gas mains, electric light and telegraph conduits and all other underground works; (e) other works and utilities considered necessary by the council for the purposes of a development or subdivision of land. The copy of the National Fire Code of Canada or other code referred to in subsection (1) as signed by the minister is the code adopted or varied by the council under section 353.3, notwithstanding that a revised code has been made. to regulate or control the positioning of buildings in relation to streets or proposed streets and existing buildings; (c) an action taken by the medical officer in respect to the building, (v) (2) Before February 1 of each year the council shall prepare and provide to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council a statement of all expenditures on account of a special loan or grant during the previous year, and shall provide a detailed account of the loan or grant, where so required. Sanitation regulations (2) Applications to subdivide or consolidate property; Applications to construct commercial, industrial or institutional buildings or to construct extensions to these types of buildings; Applications to change the type of occupancy in a building if the building is not zoned to allow the proposed use. 408. ; (c) (2) (3) Enforcing bylaw regulations and standards; . (1)The management and control of all land, situated within the city limits and belonging to the Crown, whether in possession, reversion or remainder, shall devolve upon and become vested in the council, who shall have power to collect rent due by tenants of Crown property by an action in the name of the city, and may grant leases of Crown property or renew existing leases of Crown property. 193. (3) A cartage contractor and a trucker who uses more than 1 vehicle shall mark and keep marked on each vehicle, in addition to the name of the owner of the vehicle, an identifying number which shall distinguish each vehicle from all other vehicles in the use of the contractor or trucker. 1971 No14 s2; 1971 No70 s4; 1974 No57 Sch C; 1986 c42 Sch A; 2013 c16 s25. or another Act or law, a Provincial Court judge to whom an application is made under section 400 shall have jurisdiction to hear the matter and to make the order referred to in that section. borrow money by issue of bonds or through bank or other loans or by mortgage, charge, lien or security on or over lands, buildings, buses, vehicles, equipment, property or assets provided, purchased, leased or acquired for the operation of that bus passenger service; and. Where there is an error in the name of a person assessed, rated, or taxed, the rate or tax assessed to the person may be collected from the person intended to be rated or taxed, where he or she is rateable or taxable. to 5:00 a.m. by isolating districts of the distribution system and measuring the flow into the isolated districts; (b) prescribing what offences against regulations may be tried under the Provincial Offences Act (3) (5) (6) Submission of plans 308. an electric coin-operated music box or jute box $25. Breach of by-laws to appoint a board to be known as the Building Regulations Board of Appeals consisting of the members that shall be appointed by the council and the board shall have power to hear and determine appeals in respect of building regulations or by-laws of the city, and the board, after notice and hearing and upon the terms and conditions that it shall fix, may, by order, cancel, or vary in whole or in part the restrictions. Petition for investigation Nothing in this section shall make the city liable for damages or claims for, (b) 178. 164. Rep. by 2012 c26 s6 Dumping into harbour (4) Tax exemptions (2) Financial year or otherwise and to provide all or part of the money required to finance the land assembly or housing project and for that purpose to raise or borrow money in the manner that the council may consider appropriate. Code of Canada (5) Transfer after annexation or to the positioning of buildings in relation to streets or proposed streets and existing buildings; (c) Plumbing system Decks Fences and Pools - City of St Johns 152. 306. A transient dealer shall not expose or offer for sale in a street or public place of the city goods or merchandise. give reasonable particulars of the repairs required to be made or that the land shall be cleared and left in a graded and levelled condition; and. 273. The name Brisbane is named to honor Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773-1860) who was Governor of New South Wales from 1821-1825. (a) (c) The council is empowered to impose upon and levy and collect from a person operating as owner, manager or agent of a circus within the city or within 1.6 kilometres of the limits of the city, a licence fee not exceeding $500 for each day the circus is in operation whether the operation is licensed or unlicensed under this section. 327. 185. all account books, registers and final accounts and statements relating to income and expenditure and fund accounts shall be preserved for a period of 21 years and may be destroyed at the expiration of that period; and. All minerals as defined in the Mineral Act, (2) Etymology. Upon completion of the draft assessment roll it shall be available in the office of the city clerk for inspection by taxpayers. (a) do all other things necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the objects of the board. (b) New streets recorded shall stop being a member of the council. The council may assess and impose annually the cost of establishing, operating and maintaining a pedestrian promenade in the city upon every person occupying, in whole or in part, a building or building site or land for a commercial purpose or other uses abutting on a pedestrian promenade in proportion to the annual rental value of the building or portion of the building or building site so occupied. the council shall own a regional fire service to provide fire protection to the Cities of St. John's and Mount Pearl and that regional fire service shall be operated and managed by the regional fire services committee. 159. The ground landlord's tax and water tax shall be payable half-yearly in advance on January 1 and July 1 in each year and may be rendered in one account or otherwise as the council may decide. 292. (1)A person entitled to notice under subsection 392 may within 10 days of the service on him or her of the notice, or, where the notice is mailed, within 14 days of the date appearing on that notice, appeal, (a) Sanitation for employees The auditor general shall make a report upon the accounts up to the close of the next preceding financial year and shall forward a copy of his or her report to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. (9) Posting notice on land An officer referred to in subsection (1) in respect of whom a notice has been given under subsection (3) shall be given ample opportunity to present his or her views on the motion and is entitled to be represented by counsel at the meeting of the council at which the motion is considered and to call witnesses and present the documents that he or she considers appropriate. 63. Development control for the fighting of fires, the prevention of fire in the city and the inspection of buildings in the city for fire prevention services. (a) (9) It shall be the duty of the owner of every dog to see that the dog is securely housed between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. and that at no time shall the dog be on a city street unless the dog is accompanied by some person who has it under effective control by means of a leash or other device approved by the council. 290. Remuneration of board members The council shall not designate a business improvement area where, within 30 days of giving notice, 1/3 of those entitled to notice under subsection (3) give written notice to the city clerk of the objections to the designation of a business improvement area. (3) a general plan of the city on a scale of 66.66 m to 2.5 cm, showing the lines of all streets which have been authorized, and all buildings within the city limits. 264. (2) the date of previous inspection. streets, including payment, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and catch basins; (d) Digging up streets 96. (1)A person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 24 is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $100 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months or to both a fine and imprisonment. 360. A new street upon which houses shall be proposed to be erected, shall not be opened or made by private parties through their own ground, within the limits of the city, without the consent of the council. Detection of waste to examine all payrolls, accounts payable, contracts and demands for payment, and when satisfied that they are in order and authorized by unexpended appropriations shall certify them, for submission to the council for payment; (e) Notwithstanding subsection (6) before making the entry he or she shall give security to the satisfaction of the council in the amount that the council considers just for the expense of making good damage which may accrue to the adjoining property in the course of carrying out the proposed work. Residential property (b) (3) 197. to acquire by purchase, lease, exchange, expropriation or gift or otherwise lands with or without buildings in or near the city for the purposes of parking lots; (c) (5) 8. The council shall have power to prescribe the height and description of a fence to be erected. 236. Publication RSN1970 c40 s50; 1995 cP-31.1 s53; 2012 c10 s5. 194. For the purpose of enforcing the lien or charge in favour of the city given by subsections (2) and (7) the city may, (a) (2) Fence Distance From the Property Line How close can you build the fence to the property line? Where both parties to bargaining that has resulted in an agreement, decision or award agree in writing, either party to that bargaining may at any time during the period referred to in section 340.18 or 340.22 proceed under section 340.17 or 340.19 for a new agreement, decision or award, to take effect before the end of that period, but not with retroactive effect. The council shall carefully consider objections or representations made to them by interested parties, provided that the objections are made in writing within 1 month of the time of serving notice of the council's intention to deal with the lands. (a) 153.381 FENCES. (5) (2) (6) 382. (2) 70. 16.40.040.1 . 142. 10631 - 100 Street, Fort St. John, BC V1J 3Z5 | 250-787-8150 or 3-1-1 . The council shall summon the parties to appear, and may, after hearing those that attend, direct that the first-named party shall be at liberty to enter upon the adjoining property to the extent that may be reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out the proposed work. divulge a matter or thing that it is his or her duty to keep secret; (h) fix, determine, change or vary, and charge fares or rates for the transportation of passengers by bus or empower the commission to fix, determine or change and to charge fares or rates. the existing main roads and proposed alterations of the roads; (b) (b) (11) All money due the city by a person shall in the insolvency of the person be a preferential claim next after money due the Crown; provided the debit is not contracted longer than 3 years prior to the date of insolvency. Notification of sale . The council may borrow by way of loan by the issue and sale of bonds of the city a sum not exceeding $2,000,000 at the interest rate and upon the terms and conditions that the council may consider appropriate. The council shall have power under regulation to fix, prescribe and impose the fees for licences or permits for the performance or installation of the matters referred to in subsection (1) and to prohibit the performance or installation without licences or permits. 333. the restriction or prohibition of the use of water in the city. The residents of the City of St. John's are continued as a corporation by the name of the City of St. John's. RSN1970 c40 s7. to keep a complete and accurate system of health statistics for the city in the manner that may be required; (c) 403.2 29. The Development Regulations regulate the use of all land and property in the City of St. John's -- both privately and publicly owned -- including residential, commercial, industrial, open space, institutional, agricultural, and other land uses, and protect environmentally valuable areas, significant waterways and wetlands, flood-risk areas . (b) "rack-rent" means rent which is not less than 2/3 of the full annual net value of the property out of which the rent arises and the full net annual value shall be taken to be the rent at which the property might reasonably be expected to be let from year to year; (r) When it was given its name and declared as a town in 1834, to replace its penal colony status, Brisbane was still part of the Colony of New South Wales.. Thomas Brisbane was a British Army officer and astronomer who was born in Ayrshire, Scotland. 5.01 the remaining 3 members shall be the city clerk, the city engineer and the city comptroller. An officer appointed by the council, except the solicitor or medical officer, shall not engage in another business or occupation. and to submit a copy of the records to the council at the 1st regular meeting of the council in every month; (g) Menu, View full Property Taxes. 20. riot, civil commotion or epidemic; the council or mayor may declare a state of emergency in the city or a specified part of the city. The council may provide the company with money to be applied in the redemption or getting in of shares under the terms of the by-law referred to in section 14, and the company shall apply the money accordingly. proof of the cost shall be verified by an affidavit of the applicant with copies of supporting voucher forming part of the affidavit, and the affidavit shall be presented to council before a permit for the development or subdivision or buildings is granted.