CHAPTER 48. An Act to amend The Municipal Hospitals Act. HIS (Assented to April 2, 1927.) IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Municipal Hospitals Short title Act Amendment Act, 1927." amended 2. The Municipal Hospitals Act, being chapter 116 of the Section 3 Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended as to section 3 thereof, by striking out of the proviso thereto the words “two-thirds" and substituting therefor the word "majority." amended 3. Section 4 of the said Act is amended as to subsection Section 4 (1) thereof, by striking out of the last proviso thereto the words "two-thirds" and substituting therefor the word "majority." 4. Section 11 of the said Act is amended- (b) as to subsection (5) thereof, by striking out the Section 11 amended 5. Section 17 of the said Act is hereby struck out and New the following substituted therefor: section 17 payment to "17.-(1) Every taxable person in any city, town, vil- Minimum lage or hamlet within a municipal district which is situated hospital in a municipal hospital district shall, if his tax to the hos- district pital district be less than six dollars per annum, pay an amount to the said city, town, village or municipal district for transmission to the secretary-treasurer of the municipal hospital district, which shall make his annual payment to such municipal hospital district not less than six dollars. persons "(2) Every person who is not a taxable person and who Non-taxable resides within a hospital district may notify the contribut- securing ing council administering the included area of which he privileges is a resident, that he desires to secure the privileges accorded to taxable persons under the provisions of this Act. "(3) Upon the receipt of any such request, the contributing council shall, if satisfied that the application is bona Time of application Payment Section 22 amended Fixing date for taking poll Persons entitled to vote New section 26 Approval of two-thirds of voters essential to adoption of scheme fide and is not made merely for the purpose of securing immediate hospital attention for the applicant or his or her family, cause the name of such person to be placed upon the tax roll of the said included area, and shall cause the applicant to be notified thereof. “(4) All such applications on the part of persons resident within the hospital district upon the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, shall be made within three months of that date, and all applications on the part of persons becoming residents after such date shall be made within three months of their so becoming residents. "(5) After the contributing council has caused any such person to be notified of the acceptance of his application, such person may pay to the secretary-treasurer of the hospital district, or to the contributing council, for transmission to such secretary-treasurer, the sum of six dollars per annum, before a date to be fixed by the board of the hospital district. "(6) Every person other than a taxable person, who has duly made all such annual payments, shall have all the privileges accorded to a taxable person under the scheme in operation in the hospital district." 6. Section 22 of the said Act is amended by striking out subsections (2) and (4) thereof, and substituting therefor the following: "(2) After approval, the Minister shall fix a date for taking a poll for the purpose of obtaining a ratification or rejection of the establishment of the district or of the scheme, and shall appoint a returning officer, who shall divide the hospital district into polling divisions and name a polling place in each division, and appoint the time and place, when and where the returning officers shall sum up the votes given for and against the scheme. "(4) The persons entitled to vote at a poll to ratify or reject the establishment of a district or a hospital scheme, shall be "(a) all persons whose names appear upon the district list hereinafter provided for; "(b) all persons who on the day of the poll subscribe the declaration set out in form D in the schedule to this Act." 7. Section 26 of the said Act is hereby struck out and the following substituted therefor: "26.-(1) The establishment of a district shall be deemed to be ratified if it is approved by a majority of the voters voting thereon, but no scheme shall be adopted unless it is approved by two-thirds of the voters voting thereon. "(2) The returning officer shall at a time and place to be named by him, sum up the number of votes cast for and against the establishment of the district and for and against of result of the hospital scheme, and shall then and there declare the Declaration result, and shall forthwith certify to the Minister under his poll hand, whether or not a majority of the voters voting have approved of the establishment of the district, and whether or not two-thirds of the voters voting have approved of the hospital scheme." amended 8. Section 28 of the said Act is amended by adding as Section 28 subsection (2a) immediately after subsection (2), the following: polls for "(2a) If the establishment of the district has been ap- Subsequent proved of, but the scheme has not been approved of, the ratification board with the consent of the Minister may at any time and of scheme from time to time prior to ratification fix a date for again taking a poll for the purpose of obtaining ratification or rejection of the original or any amended scheme, and such poll shall be taken in all respects as if it were the original submission of the scheme." 9. Section 29 of the said Act is amended by adding there- Section 29 to as subsection (2), the following: "(2) In the event of the board failing to make any such division as aforesaid, the question, if arising in connection with a hospital situate in the North Alberta Land Registration District shall be submitted for decision to the Master in Chambers at Edmonton; and if arising in connection with a hospital situate in the South Alberta Land Registration District, shall be submitted to the Master in Chambers at Calgary." amended 10. Section 47a is added to the said Act, immediately Section 47a after section 47, as follows: "47a.-(1) Upon receiving, prior to the first day of May in any year, a request in writing, from a contributing council, the board shall summon a meeting of the ratepayers of the hospital district. added summon "(2) The board shall notify in writing the contributing Board to councils of the date of the meeting not less than thirty days meeting of before such date, and shall, fourteen days before such date, ratepayers insert in a newspaper circulating in the hospital district, a district notice of the time and place of such meeting. "(3) The chairman and the secretary-treasurer of the hospital district, or if the absence of either is necessary, some other person or persons authorized thereunto by the board, shall be present at such meeting and shall bring with them all records pertaining to the maintenance and operation of the hospital, and submit the same to inspection by the ratepayers, and shall give such information touching the affairs of the hospital district as is within their power." of hospital 11. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to. force of Act CHAPTER 49. An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act. (Assented to April 2, 1927.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Vital Statistics Act Short title Amendment Act, 1927." 2. The Vital Statistics Act, being chapter 24 of the Re- Section 19 vised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended as to subsec- amended tion (2) of section 19 thereof, by striking out the words "twenty-five cents" and substituting therefor the words "fifty cents." amended 3. Section 28 of the said Act is hereby amended by Section 28 striking out the words "twenty-five cents" and substituting therefor the words "fifty cents." amended 4. Section 36 of the said Act is hereby amended by Section 36 striking out the words "twenty-five cents" and substituting therefor the words "fifty cents." amended 5. Section 38 of the said Act is amended by striking out Section 38 the words "twenty-five cents" wherever they occur therein, and substituting therefor the words "fifty cents." 6. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which Coming into it is assented to. force of Act |