BILL NO. 183

(as passed, with corrections)

2nd Session, 63rd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
68 Elizabeth II, 2019

 

Local Bill

 

An Act to Exempt from Taxation
the Property of the Digby Town
and Municipal Housing Corporation
in the Town of Digby

 

CHAPTER 41 OF THE ACTS OF 2019

 

The Honourable Gordon Wilson
Clare–Digby

 

First Reading: October 8, 2019 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)

Second Reading: October 17, 2019

Third Reading: October 30, 2019

Royal Assent: October 30, 2019

An Act to Amend Chapter 80
of the Acts of 1975,
An Act to Exempt from Taxation
the Property of the Digby Town
and Municipal Housing Corporation
in the Town of Digby

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 The title of Chapter 80 of the Acts of 1975, An Act to Exempt from Taxation the Property of the Digby Town and Municipal Housing Corporation in the Town of Digby, is amended by adding "and the Municipality of the District of Digby" immediately after "Digby" in the fourth line.

2 Section 2 of Chapter 80 is repealed and the following Sections substituted:

2 Notwithstanding the Assessment Act or any special or general Act of the Legislature, the Council of the Municipality of the District of Digby is hereby authorized to exempt from taxation for all municipal or town purposes, commencing the sixteenth day of July, 2009, all real and personal property of the Digby Town and Municipal Housing Corporation located within the Municipality of the District of Digby.

3 (1) In this Section, "residential care facility" has the same meaning as in the Homes for Special Care Act.

(2) For greater certainty, where property referred to in Section 1 or 2 is used as a residential care facility, the assessed value of the property must not be included in the uniform assessment for either the Town of Digby or the Municipality of the District of Digby for the purpose of the Municipal Grants Act.

 

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