BILL NO. 29

(as introduced)

1st Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
62 Elizabeth II, 2013

Private Member's Bill

Municipal Government Act
(amended)

John Lohr
Kings North

First Reading: December 12, 2013

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill allows a village to sell or lease property at less than market value to a non-profit organization and prescribes the process for doing so.

1 Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1998, the Municipal Government Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 446 the following Section:

446A (1) A village commission may sell or lease property at a price less than market value to a non-profit organization that the village commission considers to be carrying on an activity that is beneficial to the village.

(2) A resolution to sell or lease property referred to in subsection (1) at less than market value must be passed by at least a two-thirds majority of the village commissioners present and voting.

(3) Where the village commission proposes to sell property referred to in subsection (1) valued at more than ten thousand dollars at less than market value, the village commission shall first hold a special meeting of the electors respecting the sale.

(4) The village commission shall give fourteen days notice of the special meeting of the electors by posting notices in conspicuous places in the village stating the date, time and place of the meeting, the location of the real property or a description of the tangible personal property, the estimated value of the property and the purpose of the sale.

(5) The village commission may advertise the meeting in a newspaper circulating in the village at least fourteen days before the meeting in lieu of, or in addition to, posting notices.