Special rate for certain purposes.

Corporation to keep works in repair.

Special rate.

Power to make second assessment.

By-law for borrowing money must provide for repayment,

in lieu thereof a new sub-section, to be known as sub-section (2), as follows:

"(2.) For assessing and levying by means of a special rate the cost of deepening any stream, creek or water-course, and draining any locality, or making, enlarging or prolonging, or altering, macadamizing, grading, levelling, paving or planking any street, lane, alley, public way or place, or any sidewalks, or any bridge forming part of a highway therein, or curbing, sodding or planking any street, lane, alley, square or other public place, or re-constructing as well as constructing any work hereby provided for;"

And by adding a new sub-section, to be known as sub-section (2a), as follows:

"(2A.) Nothing contained in the preceding sub-section shall be

construed to apply to any work of ordinary repair or maintenance, but all works constructed under the said preceding subsection shall thereafter be kept in a good and sufficient state of repair at the expense of the Corporation;"

And by adding to section 200, of the "Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1886," a new sub-section, to be known as sub-section (4), immediately after sub-section (3), as follows:

"(4.) The special rate to be so assessed and levied shall be an annual
rate according to the frontage thereof, upon the real property
fronting or abutting upon the street or place whereon or
wherein such improvements or work is proposed to be done or
made, and subject to the provisions following, namely:-
"That not more than two-thirds of the total costs of such improve-
ments be assessed and levied on the real property so fronting,
and the remainder of the cost thereof be borne and paid by the
city;"

By adding a new sub-section, to be known as sub-section (6), as follows:

"(6.) If in any case the first assessment for any local improvement proves insufficient, the Council shall make a second in the same manner, and so on until sufficient moneys have been realized to pay for such improvements or works. If too large a sum shall at any time be raised, the excess shall be refunded rateably to those by whom it was paid;"

And by adding new sub-sections, to be known as sub-sections 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 :—

"(7.) Every by-law for borrowing money for improvements as in

the preceding sub-sections provided, shall provide for the repayment of the loan and the maturing of debentures to be issued pursuant to such by-law within the probable life of the work

or improvements for which such debt has been incurred, as certified by the engineer, or other proper officer, to be appointed by the Council for that purpose:

“(8.) No by-law passed by the Council under the provisions of By-law need not be published. section 200 of the Act, shall be required to be advertised or published by the said Council in any newspaper, but a written or printed, or partly written or partly printed, notice of the sitting of the Court of Revision for the confirmation of every such special assessment, shall be given to the owners, lessees and occupants, or the agents of the owners, lessees and occupants, of each parcel of real estate affected by such by-law:

“(9.) Every such notice shall contain a general description of the What notice must property in respect of which the same is given, the nature of contain. the proposed improvements, work or service, the estimated total cost thereof, the amount of the assesment on the particular piece of property, the time and manner in which the same is payable, and shall be signed by the Clerk, or the Assessment Commissioner, or other officer to be appointed by the Council for that purpose, and be mailed to the address of the person entitled to notice, at least fifteen days before the day appointed for the sittings of the said Court, and ten days' notice shall also be given by publication in some newspaper, having a general circulation, of the time and place of the meeting of the said Court, which notice shall specify generally what such assessment is to be for, and the total amount to be assessed: "(10.) Where a by-law passed under the provisions of section 200 Requisites of by-law of this Act provides, or is intended to provide, that the special providing for a frontage rate. rate assessed thereunder shall be a frontage rate, it shall not be necessary to comply with the provisions of sections 127 to 141, inclusive, of the Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1886,' or to advertise or publish the by-law, but it shall be sufficient if the by-law describe the street or place or part thereof, whereon or wherein the local improvement is to be made, by general description thereof, stating the points between which it is to be made; and it shall not be necessary for such by-law to state the value of the real property rateable thereunder, or to impose a rate upon such real property, by any description other than that herein before mentioned:

"(11.) In cases to which the next preceding sub-section applies, Council to procure the Council shall procure a measurement of the frontage liable measurement of frontage. to the rate mentioned therein, and of the frontages exempt from taxation, and of the frontages of the several lots or parcels of land liable to such rate, and shall keep a statement of the same open for inspection in the office of the City Clerk for at least ten days before the final passing of the by-law, and the

Form of notice.

Council shall also cause to be inserted in a public newspaper
published within the city once a week for two successive
weeks, a notice in the form following or to the like effect :-
"Take notice that a by-law is intended to be passed by the
City Council for levying a frontage rate to pay for the
[describing the work] constructed (or made) or to be con-
structed (or made, as the case may be) on

street between [describing the points between which the
work has been or is to be made or constructed] and that a
statement shewing the lands liable to pay the said rate
and the names of the owners thereof, so far as they can be
ascertained from the last revised assessment roll, is now
filed in the office of the City Clerk, and is open for inspec-
tion during office hours. The estimated cost of the work
is $

of which $

at

is to be provided out of the A Court of Revision will be

for the purpose of hearing

general funds of the City.
held on
complaints against the proposed assessment or accuracy of
the frontage measurement or any other complaint which
persons interested may desire to make, and which is by
law cognizable by the Court.

Dated,

City Clerk.

By-laws for raising money.

Local improvement debentures.

"(12.) The Council may pass all by-laws necessary, from time to time, to raise loans and borrow moneys required for its share of any local improvements and works on the credit of the city, and it shall not be necessary to obtain the assent of the electors of the city to the passing of any such by-law under the provisions of the Act, any special or private Act in that behalf to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided always, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed as authorizing an extension of the general debt of the city, beyond the limits thereof fixed by any Act limiting the same:

"(13.) It is hereby declared that the debentures issued under the Local Improvement By-Laws on the security of special assessments therefor shall form no part of the general debt of the city within the meaning of the sections 127 to 144, both inclusive, of the Act, and it shall not be necessary to recite the amount of such local improvement debt so secured by special rates or assessments in any by-law for borrowing money on the credit of the city as aforesaid, but it shall be sufficient to state in any such by-law, that the amount of the general debt of the city as therein set forth is exclusive of local improvement debts secured by special Acts, rates or assessments."

1890.

33. Section 7 of the "Vancouver Incorporation Act, 1886, Amend- Amends section 7 ment Act, 1890," is hereby amended by striking out all the words of Amendment Act, from the word "the" in the 6th line thereof, to the word " of " in the 8th line thereof, and by inserting in lieu thereof the following: "five members, of whom the Mayor, or acting Mayor, shall be one; two persons, who shall be elected by the voters in accordance with the provisions contained and in the manner directed in the Act for the election of Mayor; and two persons who shall be appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, on or before the 1st day of February in each year."

1890.

34. Section 7 of the "Vancouver Incorporation Act Amendment Amends section 7 of Act, 1890," is hereby amended by striking out the words "by by-law" Amendment Act, in the first line thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words "by resolution."

VICTORIA, B. C.:

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