Acts and Regulations

M-22 - Municipalities Act

Section 15.1
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Dissolution of a town or village
15.1(1)In this section, “ratepayer” means the person in whose name real property is assessed under the Assessment Act.
15.1(2)Despite subsection 14(4.1), if a feasibility report under subsection 14(1) or a study under subsection 14(4) recommends that a town or village becomes a rural community or part of a rural community, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister and in accordance with this section, dissolve the town or village by regulation.
15.1(3)If a feasibility report under subsection 14(1) or a study under subsection 14(4) recommends that a town or village becomes a rural community or part of a rural community, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a person or persons to carry out any of the actions necessary and incidental to the dissolution of the town or village specified in subsection (5).
15.1(4)The person or persons appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council under subsection (3) may be the person or persons appointed as supervisor for the town or village under the Control of Municipalities Act.
15.1(5)The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, when dissolving a town or village by regulation on the recommendation of the Minister, may
(a) declare that the town or village dissolved become a rural community or part of a rural community in accordance with section 190.072,
(b) provide for such disposition and adjustment of the assets and liabilities and such discharge of the obligations of the town or village dissolved as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council deems equitable,
(c) provide for such adjustment of the rights, claims, liabilities and obligations of the ratepayers of the town or village dissolved as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council deems equitable,
(d) provide for the extent to and the manner in which the liabilities of the town or village dissolved shall be discharged by the imposition of rates of tax upon the real property in the town or village dissolved and impose rates of tax for the discharge of such liabilities of the town or village dissolved,
(e) provide for the continuance or discontinuance of the by-laws of the town or village dissolved,
(f) provide for the continuance or discontinuance of services,
(g) provide for any claims or actions by or against the town or village dissolved,
(h) provide for the vesting in the Crown in right of the Province of property of the town or village dissolved,
(i) provide for the giving of notice and the registration of any documents necessary or incidental to any of the matters referred to in this section,
(j) provide for the doing or causing to be done of all such other matters, acts, deeds and things as may be deemed necessary or incidental by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to the carrying out of the dissolution of the town or village.
15.1(6)In addition to any conditions, procedures or criteria set out in this section, on the recommendation of the Minister, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations respecting conditions and procedures that shall be complied with and criteria that shall be considered before a town or village may become a rural community or part of a rural community.
2012, c.44, s.11