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North Vancouver City Incorporation 1906. NORTH VANCOUVER INCORPORATION. CHAP. 35. CHAPTER 35. An Act to accelerate the Incorporation of the City of North Vancouver. [M March, 1906.] HEREAS a petition has been presented by the inhabitants of the Preamble, W tract of land in this Act hereafter described, portion of and forming part of the District Municipality of North Vancouver, and other adjoining lands, praying that they may be incorporated as a City Municipality under the name of the " City of North Vancou­ ver ;" but it has been found inconvenient, owing to the exigencies of public business, to proceed with the consideration of the said petition in this present Session, and the said inhabitants are desirous of secur­ ing immediate incorporation, without complying with certain of the provisions of the " Municipalities Incorporation Act" and amending Acts necessitating notices and petitions, and it is expedient to permit a departure from the general statutory conditions: Therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:— 1. This Act may be cited as the " North Vancouver City Incorpor- Short title, ation Act, 1906." 2. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council forth- Incorporation of the with, without requiring the inhabitants of the lands proposed to be Vancouver! incorporated to observe the provisions of section 3 of the " Municipali­ ties Incorporation Act" as amended, by Letters Patent under the Public Seal, to incorporate under the said Act into a City the tract of land set out in Schedule " B " hereto ; and such Letters Patent shall have the same force and effect as Letters Patent issued under the provisions 299 CHAP. 35. NORTH VANCOUVER INCORPORATION. 6 ED. 7 and after compliance with all the formalities of the said " Municipalities Incorporation Act" as amended, save and except as provided in the following sections of this Act, which shall apply to such Municipality. What Letters 3. The Letters Patent incorporating such City Corporation shall, in Patent to specify. specifying and providing for all matters referred to in section 4 of the "Municipalities Incorporation Act," specify and provide for the matters referred to in sections 4 to 13, both inclusive, of this Act, as and in manner therein set out. First Election. Nomination for 4. A nomination for a first Council, to consist of a Mayor and six first election. Aldermen, shall be held on the third Saturday after Letters Patent pursuant to this Act shall be granted by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and the election, in case a poll shall be demanded, shall be held on the following Saturday after such nomination, and shall con­ Returning officer. tinue for one day only; and Alexander Philip shall be Returning Officer. Notice thereof to be 5. The nomination and poll, if any, shall be held at the Municipal published. Hall at North Vancouver. Seven days' notice of the time and place of nomination, and of the holding of the poll, if any, shall be given by the said Returning Officer in a newspaper published or circulating in the said City, and further, for the like period shall be posted up on the entrance door of the said Municipal Hall. Duties of Returning 6. The said Returning Officer shall provide a ballot-box and the Officer. necessary ballots for use at the said first election, and he shall, as far as possible, conduct such election in all respects in conformity with the provisions of the " Municipal Elections Act." First meeting of the T. The first meeting of the Council so elected shall be held at the Council. Municipal Hall in the City on the first Wednesday after such election. Agreement with 8. It shall be lawful for the Corporation of the District of North District Munici­ pality of North Vancouver to enter into and execute the deed of arrangement set out Vancouver. in Schedule " A " hereto, as to certain public property, rights, interests and benefits, and apportioning the same, appertaining to the said tract of land; and after the grant of Letters Patent under this Act it shall be lawful for the City of North Vancouver to enter into and execute the said deed, and to carry the same into effect; and when executed the said deed shall, to all intents, and for all purposes, be valid and binding upon the parties thereto. Mode of election 9. Until the said Municipality is divided into wards, the Mayor until City divided into wards. and Aldermen shall be elected by those qualified to vote in the whole City. 300 1906. NORTH VANCOUVER INCORPORATION. CHAP. 35. 10. The Mayor and Aldermen elected at such first election shall First Mayor and , , i [„. , •! i • n • • •; c ,1 Aldermen to hold hold office until his or their successor, or a majority ot their successors, 0gjce unt;i sueessors have been sworn in, unless he or they shall die or resign or become elected, disqualified. 11. Any male or female, being a British subject of the full age of Qualification of twenty-one years, and being a freeholder, a householder for at least election. six months previous to such election, a pre-emptor or leaseholder for a term of not less than six months, resident within the said City, shall be entitled to vote at the first municipal election under this Act, but no female shall be qualified to sit or vote as Mayor or Alderman. 13. It shall be the duty of the Returning Officer to enter in a Voters'list. book, in alphabetical order, the names, addresses and occupations of all persons qualified under section 14 of this Act, and such list shall be the list of electors for such elections. 13. Before the name of any person, other than a freeholder, shall Declaration by be placed on the first voters' list, he or she shall make and sign a freeholder* &U declaration in writing, before some person authorised to administer oaths, or before the Returning Officer, setting forth his or her name, address, occupation and qualifications under this Act, and shall deliver the same to the Returning Officer, and the said list shall be closed on the day before nomination day, and shall then be the voters' list of the Municipality for all purposes until another list is prepared in due course. 14. The Council may, in addition to all its powers, from time to Power to make and time make, alter and repeal by-laws:— repeal by"laws- (a.) To regulate and extend the water-works system heretofore belonging to and under the control of the Corporation of the District of North Vancouver; to extend the said system to all parts of the City, and throughout adjoining Municipalities, and to supply water therefrom; to obtain further supplies of water; in addition to all other powers, to purchase lands within and without the City for watershed, reservoirs, rights-of-way, and other purposes connected with the water system; to appoint a Board of Water Commissioners to administer and manage the water-works system of the City as now existing, and as may be extended under the provisions of this Act, and to define and regulate the powers and duties of such Water Commissioners: (b.) To join with the City of Vancouver and any other Municipality or Municipalities, or with any one or more of them, for the joint supply of water in the several Municipalities so joining, and to share in the cost of watershed and all other things necessary in connection with such united water supply: (c.) To provide that all rates to be levied for water purposes shall be assessed, levied and collected on the same basis as ordinary 301 CHAP. 35. NORTH VANCOUVER INCORPORATION. 6 ED. 7 municipal taxes on land, and, in the discretion of the Council, on not more than fifty per cent, of the assessed value of the improvements: (d.) To acquire, whether inside the limits of the City, or without, by purchase, land for sand-pits, gravel-pits and stone quarries for the obtaining of materials for necessary public works in the City: (e.) To construct and maintain, or aid in the construction and maintenance of roads, trails, and bicycle paths in adjoining Municipalities, and for such purpose to make arrangements with adjoining Municipalities for the opening of roads, trails and bicycle paths leading from the City into and through such adjoining Municipalities: (/.) With the assent of the electors to subdivide the City into Wards. Lawful for the 15. It shall be lawful for the Council of the* Municipality, by a Municipality to borrow money to by-law or by-laws, to be passed without any petition and without the provide for payment of debentures of previous assent of the electors, at any time or times, and in one or District of North more sums at a time, to borrow upon the credit of the Municipality at Vancouver. large the moneys required to provide for the payment of the $170,000 of debentures of the Corporation of the District of North Vancouver, being portion of the debt of the said District Corporation taken over and assumed by the City Municipality under agreement scheduled to this Act (and therein referred to in five items) at such rate or rates of interest not greater than five per cent, as the Council may see fit, and to raise the said moneys by the issue of debentures under the formali­ ties contained in the " Municipal Clauses Act" and amending Acts. Council may invest 16. In addition to the securities in which, in accordance with the sinking funds. " Municipal Clauses Act," investments of any sinking funds may be made, the Council of the Municipality may invest any such funds in first mortgage on improved property in the City, not exceeding forty per cent, of the assessed value thereof.
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