Individual rights Exemption from distress and seizure Supplying of all buildings in line of supply Requirement of security from consumers Protection Non-payment of rates, etc. 16. Nothing in this Act contained shall prevent any person from constructing any works for the supply of gas, water or electricity or for a telephone system to or on his own premises. [1901, c. 21, s. 14.] 17. Neither the service nor the connecting pipes, wires or conductors of the company nor any meters, lustres, lamps, pipes, gas or water or electric or telephone fittings nor any other property of any kind whatsoever of the company shall be subject to or liable for rent or liable to be seized or attached in any way by the possessor or owner of the premises wherein the same may be or be in any way whatsoever liable to any person for the debt of any person to and for whose use and the use of whose house or building the same may be supplied by the company notwithstanding the actual or apparent possession thereof by such person. [1901, c. 21, s. 15.] 18. When a company has constructed works for supplying any municipality or municipalities with gas, water, electricity or telephones and the company is able so to do it shall supply all buildings situate upon land lying along the line of any supply pipe or wire upon the same being requested by the owner, occupant or other person in charge of any such building. [1901, c. 21, s. 16.] 19. A company may, before supplying water, gas, electricity, or telephones to any building or as a condition to its continuing to supply the same, require any consumer to give reasonable security for the payment of the proper charges of the company therefor or for carrying the water, gas, electricity or telephone system into such building. [1901, c. 21, s. 17.] 20. Nothing in the next preceding two sections contained shall be construed so as in any way to affect the liability of any company in respect of damages on account of any failure of supply through mischance, accident or mismanagement but the position of the company in respect thereof shall remain as if the said two sections had not been passed. [1901, c. 21, s. 18.] Non-payment of Charges. 21. If any person supplied by the company with gas, water, electricity or telephone neglects to pay the rent, rate or charge due to the company at any of the times fixed for the payment thereof the company or anyone acting under its authority may, on giving forty-eight hours' notice to the person supplied, stop the supply of gas, water or electricity from entering or being supplied to or disconnect the telephone system from the premises of the person in arrears as aforesaid by cutting off the service pipe or pipes, wires or conductors or by such other means as the company or its officer sees fit; and may recover the rent or charge due up to such time together with the expense of cutting off the gas, water, electricity or telephone as the case may be in any competent court notwithstanding any contract to furnish for a longer time. [1901, c. 21, s. 19.] Penalties. 22. Any person who (a) wilfully or maliciously breaks up, pulls down or (b) in anywise wilfully does any other injury or damage (c) bathes or washes or cleans any cloth, wool, leather, (d) by any wrongful or improper means increases the (e) wilfully or maliciously damages or causes or know- shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not Penalties premises by 23. (1) In all cases where the company may lawfully Entry of cut off and take away the supply of gas, water or electricity employees of company Removal of fittings, etc., where service discontinued Arbitration where private property required or disconnect the telephone system from any house, building or premises the company, their agents or their workmen upon giving forty-eight hours' previous notice to the person in charge or the occupier may enter into the house, building or premises between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, making as little disturbance and inconvenience as possible, and may remove and take away any pipe, meter, cock, branch, lamp, fitting or apparatus the property of and belonging to the company; and any servant duly authorized by the company may between the hours aforesaid enter any house into which a gas, water, electricity or telephone system has been taken or supplied for the purpose of repairing and making good any such house, building or premises or for the purpose of examining any meter, pipe, wire, conductor, apparatus or fitting belonging to the company or used for its gas, water, electricity or telephone. (2) If any person refuses to permit or does not permit the servants and officers of the company to enter and perform the acts aforesaid the person so refusing or obstructing shall incur a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars to the company for every such offence and a further penalty not exceeding four dollars for every day during which such refusal or obstruction continues, to be recovered with costs on summary conviction. [1901, c. 21, s. 21.] 24. Where a customer discontinues the use of the gas, water, electricity or telephone furnished or supplied by any company or where the company lawfully refuses to continue any longer to supply the same, the officers and servants of the company may at all reasonable times enter upon the premises in or upon which such customer was supplied with gas, water, electricity or telephone for the purpose of removing therefrom any fitting, machine, apparatus, meter, pipe, wire, conductor or other thing being the property of the company in or upon such premises, and may remove the same therefrom doing no unnecessary damagǝ. [1901, c. 21, s. 22.] Arbitration. 25. (1) Subject to the provisions of section 14 hereof if any company deems it necessary or proper to conduct any of its pipes, wires or conductors or to carry any of its works through the lands of any person lying within or within ten miles of the municipality within which the operations of the company are to be carried on, and the consent of such person cannot be obtained for that purpose, the company shall proceed to arbitration under the provisions of The Arbitration Act. (2) Such arbitration shall be by two arbitrators, one to be appointed by each party. (3) The arbitrators shall determine the questions in dispute between the parties to the arbitration and shall decide as to the necessity or propriety of conducting any of the pipes, wires or conductors or carrying any of the works of the company through the lands of the other party if such party objects to the same being done. (4) If such decision be in favour of the company or if no such objection is made the arbitrators shall adjudge what sum of money shall be paid to the owner of the property to be taken or used for the aforesaid purposes or any of them. [1901, c. 21, s. 23.] Short title CHAPTER 169. An Act to Regulate the Sale of Shares, Bonds and other Securities of Companies. HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Sale of Shares Act." [1916, c. 8, s. 1.] Interpretation. Interpretation Board Company Scope of Act Prohibition of sale of shares 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (b) "Company" shall mean any company, corporation, Scope of Act. 3. This Act shall not apply to the sale of any stock, bonds or other securities of the Dominion of Canada or any province thereof, or of any foreign country, or of any county, city, town, village, municipality, school district or improvement district of any province or territory of Canada, or of any stock, bonds, debentures or other securities authorized by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners, or sold or listed on any stock exchange which has been approved, for the purposes of this section, by the Board, or to the debentures of any corporation whose stock is so listed, or to any shares or stock issued by any company in lieu of dividends, nor shall it be deemed to have applied to, nor shall it apply to, the sale of any stock under any contract for the sale of stock entered into prior to and in force upon the nineteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, provided that the said contract, or a certified copy thereof, has been filed with the Board before the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen. [1918, c. 17, s. 1.] Prohibition of Sale of Shares. 4. No person or persons or company, or any agent acting on his, their or its behalf shall sell or offer to sell or directly or indirectly attempt to sell in the Province of Alberta any shares, stocks, bonds or other securities of any |