THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT ~ C

Sl. COUNC

A By-law to provide for the waiving of a portion of, the sewer rahe
applied to a certain class of citizens sixty-five years of age or over.

WHEREAS Section 202 of the Municipalities Enabling and Validating

: Act, as amended, reads as follows:

: "202(1) The Council may, by by-law, waive any part of any tax,

rate, or charge imposed for the purpose of providing water, sewers, or pol-

- Zution control and abatement facilities, with respect to their application

to property owned and occupied by any class of citizens sixty-five years of

age or over specified in the by~law.

. (2) Any deficiency resulting from a “waiver of taxes, rates,

or charges pursuant: to subsection (1) shall be made up from the general

revenues of the municipality." i oe

NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of The “Corporation of the

: City of Port Coquitlam, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:

, Lv. , Every. person whe, in accord with the provisions of Section 5 and

Section 7 of the Provincial Homeowner Grant Act; being Chapter 308 of the

, _ Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1960, as amended; certifies that he
‘is sixty-five years of age or over during the current calendar year and is

' ‘the principle supperter of his household and thereby applies for and

receives ‘the additional homeowner grant payable to such person under. the

provisions of the eaid Provincial Homeowner Grant Act shall be entitled,
with respect to the property for which the said application is made, to a
: waiver of, and there shall be waived, the amount of Fourteen Dollars and
“Twenty-five cents ($14.25) of the total annual user rate chargeable ‘under

the provisions of By~law No. 752 of the City being the "City of Port

Coquitlam Sewer Rates By-law, 1964", as amended.

"2. The amount of the said abatement, if not deducted from the rates

and charges imposed by By-law No. 752 at the time of payment shall be paid

by the City Treasurer to the person entitled thereto without further order

of the Council.
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3. This By-law shall apply to the 1975 caiendar year only.
4. This By-law may be cited for all purposes as the “Senior Citizens

Sewer Rutes and Charges Partial Waiver By-law, 1975, No. 1363".

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