BILL NO. 38

1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
49 Elizabeth II, 2000



Local Bill



Cape Breton Regional Municipality Plebiscite Act



Brian Boudreau
Cape Breton The Lakes



First Reading: March 30, 2000

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

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An Act to Enable Residents of
the Cape Breton Regional Municipality
to Require the Municipality to Hold
a Plebiscite on Any Question

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 This Act may be cited as the Cape Breton Regional Municipality Plebiscite Act.

2 Where the Council of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality receives a petition of ten per cent or more of the residents of the Municipality requesting the Council to direct, pursuant to Section 53 of the Municipal Government Act, that a plebiscite be held on any question set out in the petition, the Council shall direct that the plebiscite be held and that the clerk of the Municipality hold a public meeting in connection with the plebiscite.

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