Enacts clause (47a), s. 54. Enacts clause (142a), s. 54. Re-enacts clause (204), par. (a). Enacts s. 61A. Re-enacts s. 124. 5. Section 54 of said chapter 52 is amended by inserting the following clause as (47a) : "(47a.) For preventing the moving of bees on combs into the municipality unless accompanied by a certificate of inspection showing that they are free from disease." 6. Said section 54 is further amended by inserting the following as clause (142a) :— "(142a.) For prohibiting, controlling, and preventing any person from selling, disposing, or giving to any minor any fire-ball, fire-cracker, squib, cannon-cracker, basket-ball, giant cracker, sky-rocket, Roman candle, mine, torpedo, or other fireworks without having first obtained from the Chief of Police of the municipality a permit so to do; and generally for regulating the selling, disposing, dealing in, or giving away to any minor any such fire-ball, fire-cracker, squib, cannon-cracker, basket-ball, giant cracker, sky-rocket, Roman candle, mine, torpedo, or other fireworks; and for licensing and regulating persons selling, disposing of, or dealing in the same." : 7. Paragraph (a) of clause (204) of section 54 of said chapter 52 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor :"(a.) For regulating the kinds and widths of tires of vehicles; for regulating the use of chains, cleats, ribs, clamps, flanges, or other devices on the tires of vehicles; for regulating the length and width of vehicles, and the length, width, height, and fastening of loads carried on vehicles, and the weight of vehicles and loads carried on vehicles along or over any highway or road in the municipality, and for specifying the weight of load which may be carried by vehicles of different width and diameter of tires." 8. Said chapter 52 is further amended by inserting the following as section 61A: "61A. A by-law passed under this Division of this Part may further provide that the Municipal Council shall levy a rate in each year upon the lands and improvements in that part of the municipality described in the by-law for the purpose of paying the costs of the maintenance and operation of the fire apparatus, including such provision as may be necessary for its proper housing." 9. Section 124 of said chapter 52 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "124. After any work carried out under sections 105, 106, or 108 is fully made and completed, the Municipal Council shall from time to time do such work as may be necessary for its preservation, maintenance, and repair, including the cleaning-out or deepening of ditches and drains, at the expense of the lands and roads benefited, and the provisions of sections 111 and 118 with regard to the publication of by-laws shall not apply in respect of any such work of preservation, maintenance, and repair." 10. Clause (a) of subsection (1) of section 134 of said chapter 52 Amends s. 134. is amended by adding the following: "and shall be for a period not exceeding one year, but may be renewed from time to time as circum stances may require." 11. Section 160 of said chapter 52 is amended by adding the Amends s. 160. following paragraphs: “Grant a sum or sums of money for the purpose of maintaining within or without the municipality any memorial dedicated organized for the advancement of the general interests of 12. Said chapter 52 is further amended by inserting the following Enacts s. 196B. as section 196B: "196B. The Council of a municipality owning or operating works for supplying any or all of the following services, namely: Trans*portation by ferries or by tramway, water for domestic or irrigation purposes, electric light, electric power, gas, or telephone, may provide by by-law that the whole or any portion of the profits arising from the operation of such works may be set aside in a reserve fund to be used only for the purpose of renewals or extensions of such works, or for the purpose of repayment to the general funds of the municipality of moneys used during the existence of such reserve fund for the benefit of the works or for the purpose of the redemption of any debentures issued in respect of the works. The moneys due to the reserve fund in accordance with the provisions of a by-law passed under this section shall, not later than the thirty-first day of December in each year, be deposited in a chartered bank, and may thereafter until required to be used in accordance with the provisions of this section be invested in the manner provided in section 191 for the investment of sinking funds. For the purposes of this section, the profits arising in any year from the operation of any of such works shall be deemed to be a surplus of proceeds after due allowance has been made for the costs of operation during the year, and for the year's requirements for interest and sinking fund for debentures issued in respect of the works." 13. Subsection (1) of section 209 of said chapter 52 is amended Amends s. 209. by striking out the words "or lease" in the second line thereof. 14. Subsection (3) of section 209 of said chapter 52 is repealed. Repeals subsec. (3) of s. 209. Amends s. 265. Amends s. 383. Repeals ss. 384 to 388. Amends s. 411. Re-enacts clause (1), s. 450. Enacts s. 454A. 15. Clause (b) of section 265 of said chapter 52 is amended by adding the following: "and such as consist of easements held by the municipality." 16. Section 383 of said chapter 52 is amended by striking out the first nine lines thereof, and by striking out the word "such" in the eleventh line thereof, and substituting therefor the word “the.” 17. Sections 384 to 388, inclusive, of said chapter 52 are repealed. 18. Subsection (1) of section 411 of said chapter 52 is amended by striking out the words and characters "in January, 1918," in the tenth line thereof, and substituting therefor the words "at the first election held in any municipality." 19. Clause (1) of section 450 of said chapter 52 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: "(1.) Any male or female of the full age of twenty-one years, or any corporation being the owner, as defined by section 266 of the Municipal Act,' of land or land and improvements in the municipality of the assessed value of not less than one hundred dollars: Provided that a corporation whose name is on the voters' list shall vote only by its duly authorized agent, whose authority shall be filed with the city clerk, and who shall be a resident of the Province and a British subject of the full age of twenty-one years; and provided further that such agent shall be entitled to vote for the corporation from year to year until his appointment as agent is cancelled and the clerk has notice of the cancellation." 20. Said chapter 52 is further amended by inserting the following as section 454A: "Nanaimo. "454A. The Municipal Council of the City of Nanaimo shall have authority to use all or any of the moneys received under section 2 of the Municipalities Aid Act' for the purpose of reducing the annual assessments with which lands in the city are charged in respect of any work or works of local improvement." VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1923. An Act to amend the "Municipalities Incorporation Act." [Assented to 21st December, 1923.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the enacts as follows: R.S.B.C. 1911, c. 172; 1912, c. 26; 1913, c. 48; 1914, c. 53; 1918, c. 59; 1. This Act may be cited as the "Municipalities Incorporation Short title. Act Amendment Act, 1923." 2. Section 8 of the "Municipalities Incorporation Act," being Re-enacts s. 8. chapter 172 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor: 66 "8. Where under the provisions of this Act the letters patent of a municipality are surrendered or cancelled and other letters patent are at the same time or immediately thereafter issued in their stead, whether by way of reincorporation or otherwise, the surrender or cancellation of the letters patent or the issue of the other letters patent as aforesaid shall not operate as a bar to or discharge of any right of action, claim, or demand which any person may have against the municipality, or as a bar to or discharge of any action or suit pending at the time of the surrender or cancellation or any proceeding therein; and the municipality shall after the surrender or cancellation and the reissue of letters patent be as fully liable in respect of any such right of action, claim, or demand, action, suit, or proceeding as if the letters patent issued in the first instance had been good, valid, and effectual and had never been surrendered or cancelled; and notwithstanding the surrender or cancellation of its letters patent and the issue of the other letters patent as aforesaid, the municipality shall be deemed to be and to have been a corporation continuing and existing from the date of the issue of letters patent primarily incorporating it until and after the date of the surrender and cancellation of the letters patent and the reissue of other letters patent as provided by this Act." 16 |