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BILL No.9 of 1939. All Ad to Amend and Consolidate the Special Areas Act, 1938. (Assented to , 1939.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly 0:1; the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Special Areas Act, 1939." 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Board" means the Special Areas Board appointed pursuant to this Act; (b) "Department" means the Department of Lands and Mines; (c) ."Land" includes in addition to its ordinary meaning .buildings and improvements thereon, but tioes not include any minerals therein or thereunder; (d) "Minister" means the Minister of Lands and Mines; (e) "Municipality" means any municipal district or im provement district or part thereof included in a Special Area; (I) "Person" includes a partnership or corporation; (g) "Public Lands" means unsubdivided lands situated in a Special Area which have been transferred to the Crown under the provisions of this Act, or which are Provincial lands or school lands within the meaning of The Provincial Lands Act, 1931, or which are designated as Public Lands. pursuant to any provisions of this Act; (h) "Ratepayer" means the person with the right of possession of land and includes any lessee of public< lands; ( i) "Special Area" means any Special Area constituted under the authority of this Act and includes Tilley· East, Berry Creek, Sounding Creek, Sullivan Lake, Neutral Hills and Bow West, now constituted as Special Municipal Areas; (j) "Unsubdivided Lands" means all land other than and except land subdivided into lots and blocks as a townsite, a plan of which is registered in a Land Titles Office. 2 3. Each of the areas in the Province next hereinafter described is hereby constituted as a Special Area; the area first so described shall be known as The Tilley East Special Area, the area secondly so desGribed shall be known as The Berry Creek - Sullivan Lake 'Special Area, the area thirdly so described shall be known as The Sounding Creek Neutral Hills Special Ar~a, and the area fourthly so des cribed shall be known as The Bow West Special Area. The description of the' areas hereinbefbre merttloll'ed' is as follows: I.-THE TILLEY EAST SPECIAL AREA. All that part of the Province of Alberta except so much thereof as is included within the corporate boundaries of any town or village, described as follows: Commencing at the north-east corner of township 12," range 1, west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly, along the said 4th meridian to its intersection with the left bank of the Red Deer River, in township 23; thence in a generally westerly direction along the said left bank to its intersec tion with the range line between ranges 10 and 11 in town ship 21; thence southerly along the road allowance between the'said ranges to the south-east corner of township 14, range 11; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 13 and 14 to the' intersection of the said road allowance with the left bank of the Bow River; thence in a g~neraJly southerly and westerly direction along the left bank of the Bow River and continuing to township 11, range. 13; thence in a generally easterly and nQrtherly direction along the left bank of the Saska,tch ewah River to the intersection of the said bank 'with the; east boundary of section 34, township 12, range 6; thence northerly to the south-east corner of the north-east quarter of the said section; thence westerly to the south west corner thereof; thence northerly along the west bound ary of thenorth-eastquart~r to the south boundary of sec tioh 3, township 13, range 6; thence easterly along the south bo~p.dary of sections 3 .and 2 in the said township to the s9iith-east corner of section 2; thence northerly a~ong the east boundary of section 2 to the north-east corner of the sQuth-east quarter of the said section; thence easterly along the 'south boundary of the ~orth half of section 1, township 13, range 6, and along the south boundary of the north half of sections 5 and 6, township 13, range 5, to the intersection of the said boundary with the left bank of the South Sas kakhewan River; thence southerly along the said left bank to the intersection of the bank with the road allowance between townships 12 and 13; thence easterly along the said road allowance to the point of commencement, all west of the 4th meridian. 2.-BERRY CREEK - SULLIVAN LAKE SPECIAL AREA. All that part of the Province except so much thereof as is included within the corporate boundaries of any town or village, described as follows: 3 Commencing at the north-east corner of township 34, range 8, west of the 4th meridian; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 34 and 35 to the intersection of the road allowance with the east shore of Sullivan Lake; thence southerly and westerly along the said shore of Sullivan Lake to the north-west corner of township 33, range 14, west of the 4th meridian; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 33 and 34 to the north-west corner of township 33, range 15, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the road allowance between ranges 15 and 16 to the south-west corner of township 31, range 15, west of the 4th meridian; thence westerly along the road allowance between town ships 30 and 31 to the north-west corner of township 30, range 16, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the road allowance between ranges 16 and 17 to the south west corner of township 29, range 16, west of the 4th mer idian; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 28 and 29 to the north-west corner of township 28, range 18, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the road allowance between ranges 18 and 19 to the south-west corner of section 19, township 28, range 18, west of the 4th meridian; thence easterly along the south bound ary of the said section 19 to the north-west corner of section 17, township 28, range 18, west of the 4th meridian; thence southerly along the west boundary of sections 17 and 8 of the said township to the south-west corner of section 8; thence easterly along the south boundary of sections 8 arid 9 to the north-west corner of the north-east quarter of sec~ tion 4 of the said township; thence southerly along the west boundary of the east half of the said section 4 to the south west corner of the south-east quarter of the said section; thence easterly to the south-east corner of the said section; thence southerly along the west boundary of section 34, township 27, range 18, west of the 4th meridian to the south-west corner of the north-west quarter of section 34; thence easterly along the south boundary of the north-west quarter of the said section to the south-east corner thereof; thence southerly along the west boundary of the east halves of sections 34, 27 and 22, township 27, range 18. west of the 4th meridian to the intersection of the said boundary with the left bank of the Red Deer River; thence southerly and easterly along the sinuosities of the said bank to the intersection of the said bank with the range line between ranges 7 and 8; thence northerly along the said range line between ranges 7 and 8, to the point of commencement. 3.-THE SOUNDING CREEK - NEUTRAL HILLS SPECIAL AREA. All that part of the Province excepting so much thereof as is included within the corporate boundaries of any town or village described as follows: Commencing at the north-east corner of township 35, range 1 west of the 4th Meridian; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 35 and 36 to the 4 liorth-west corner of township 35, range 3; thence northerly along the road allowance between ranges 3 and 4 to the north-west corner of township 37, range 3; thence westerly along the road allowance between townships 37 and 38 to the north-west corner of township 37, range 7; thence southerly along the range line between ranges 7 and 8 to the intersection of the said range line with the left bank of the Red Deer River in township 23; thence in a generally easterly direction along the said left bank of the Red Deer River to the intersection with the east boundary of section 13 in township 23, range 4; thence northerly along the road allowance between ranges 3 and 4 to the north-west corner of township 26, Range 3; thence easterly along the road allowance between townships 26 and 27 to the intersection with the 4th meridian; thence northerly and along the said 4th meridian to the point of commencement; all west of the 4th meridian. 4.-THE Bow WEST SPECIAL AREA. All that part of the Province except so much thereof as is included within the corporate boundaries of any town or village described as follows: Commencing at the south-east corner of township 12, range 17, west of the 4th meridian; thence northerly along the range line between ranges 16 and 17 to the intersection with the north boundary of township 14; thence easterly along the north boundary. of township 14 to the intersec tion with the right bank of the Bow River; thence in a generally north-westerly direction upstream along the said right bank of the Bow River to the intersection with a line dividing the north and south halves of township 20, in range 19; thence westerly along the said divided line and continuing westerly to the intersection with the range line between ranges 20 and 21; thence southerly along the said range line between ranges 20 and 21 to the north boundary of township 16; thence westerly along the said north bound aryof township 16 to the intersection with