COUNCIL

SUE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM DEC 29 1976

BY-LAW NO. 1485

A By-law to provide for the waiving of a portion of tae water

and sewer user rates applied to a certain class of citizens sixty-five years

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of age or over.

WHEREAS Section 202 of the Municipalities Enabling and Validating

amended, reads as follows:

"202 (1) The Council may, by by-law, waive any part of any tax,
rate cx cnarge imposed for the purpose of providing water, sewers, or pollution
controi and abatement facilities, with respect to their application to property
owned and occupied hy 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."

NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the
City of Port Coquitlam, in open meeting assembled, enacts ac follows:

1. (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 Sratutes of British Columbia, 1960, as amended; certifies that he is
sixty-five years of age ox over during the current calendar year and is the
principle supporter of his household and thereby applies for and receives the’
additional 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 Seventeen 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 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.

2. (a) Every person who, in accord with the provisions of Section’S 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