Order respecting water or sewerage work
125(1)Where the Minister of Health under authority of the
Health Act orders changes or additions to be made to an existing system of water works, sewers or sewage disposal by the municipality the council may on its own initiative cause a notice of its intention to undertake any work ordered by the Minister of Health and specified in paragraph 119(1)(
d) to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper published or having general circulation in the municipality.
125(2)The notice shall be in the form prescribed by by-law and shall further state that the work is to be undertaken pursuant to an order made under the
Health Act.
125(3)Notwithstanding that a petition is presented against undertaking the work, the council may by by-law passed by the affirmative vote of a majority of the council present at any regular meeting or at any special meeting called for the purpose
(a)
declare the work to be necessary or requisite in the general interest of the locality in which it is to be made,
(b)
authorize and direct the undertaking of such work, and
(c)
order that the cost thereof or such portion of the cost as may be fixed by a general by-law shall be raised by a special frontage assessment.
1966, c.20, s.125; 1986, c.8, s.83; 2000, c.26, s.206; 2006, c.16, s.119