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A By-law to provide for the waiving of a portion of the water and
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sewer user rates 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, br by-law, waive any part of any tax,

‘rate or charge imposed for the purpose of providing water, sewers, or pollution
control and abatement facilities, with respect to their application to property
owned and cecupied by any class of citizens sixty-five years of age or over
epecified 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."

NOW THEREFORE the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the City

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

i. (a) Every person who, 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 vears of age or over during the 1979 calendar year and is the
principle supporter of his household and thereby applies for and receives the
agditional homeowner grant payable to such person under the provisions of the
said’ 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 Seventcen Dollars and Twenty-five cents ($17.25)
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,

(b) The awount 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
the City Treasurcr to the person entitled thereto without further order of
Council. . ;
2. (a) Every person who, 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
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