BILL NO. 10

1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47 Elizabeth II, 1998

Local Bill

Queens Regional Municipality Act
(amended)

John G. Leefe
Queens

First Reading: June 2, 1998

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading: November 9, 1998

Private and Local Bills committee: November 16, 1998

Third Reading: November 17, 1998 (NO AMENDMENTS)

Clause 1 removes the power of the Council of the Queens Regional Municipality to make by-laws

(a) prohibiting or controlling the driving of snowmobiles, machines and motor vehicles on ice on harbours, lakes, rivers and streams;

(b) regulating the use of lakes, rivers and streams by swimmers, canoeists, boat operators and by all persons on or in the lakes, rivers and streams;

(c) regulating the use of shores of the lakes, rivers and streams by swimmers, canoeists, boat operators and by all persons on or in the lakes, rivers and streams.

Clause 2 enables the Council of the Queens Regional Municipality

(a) to name or rename any public or private street, road or lane;

(b) to require the owner of any private street or road to apply to the proper authority for permission to erect a sign that identifies the street or road and to use the owner's best efforts to obtain such permission, and to erect a sign of such size and design and in such location as prescribed by the Council;

(c) to assign civic numbers to buildings and to require the owner or occupier of any building to affix the assigned number to the building and to prescribe the size, design and location of the number and the manner in which it is affixed.

Clause 2 also provides that the Council does not have the authority to require that civic numbers be affixed to buildings or to prescribe the size, design and location of civic numbers and the manner in which they are affixed if regulations made pursuant to the Emergency "911" Act are in force that impose the same requirements.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Clauses 105(2)(c), (d) and (e) of Chapter 9 of the Acts of 1995, the Queens Regional Municipality Act, are repealed.

2 Chapter 9 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 115 the following Sections:

115A (1) The Council may, by administrative order, name or rename any public or private street, road or lane.

(2) The Council may, by by-law, require the owner of any land that is a private street, road or lane to

(a) apply for permission to erect a sign or signpost that identifies the street, road or lane by the name assigned to it pursuant to subsection (1) to any authority whose permission is required, under the law of the Province, to erect the sign or signpost and use the owner's best efforts to obtain such permission; and

(b) erect a sign or signpost of such size and design and in such location and in such a manner as is prescribed by the by-law, where permission is obtained to erect the signpost in accordance with clause (a).

115B (1) The Council may, by by-law

(a) assign or cause to be assigned a civic number to any building or change the civic number;

(b) require the owner or occupier of any property upon which a building is located to affix to the building or property the civic number assigned to the building or as changed pursuant to clause (a), with power to prescribe the size, design and location of the civic number that the owner or occupier is so required to affix and the manner in which it is affixed.

(2) Where regulations are made pursuant to clauses 14(1)(c) and (d) of the Emergency "911" Act, any by-law that is made pursuant to clause (1)(b) ceases to be in force as long as the regulations are in force.