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BY-LAW NO. 1710 . ' po

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

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, by by-law, waive any part of any tax, rate
or charge imposed for the purpose of providing water, sewers, or polJution
control and abatement facilities, with respect to their application to propecty
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."
NOW THEREFORE the Municipal Council of The Corporation of the City.

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

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1. (a) Every person who, in accord with the provisions of Section 5 ard
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Section 7 of the Provincial Homeowner Grant Act; being Chapter 308 of the
Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1960, as amended; certifies thac he is
sixty-five years of age or over during the 1980 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 Twenty Dollars and Twenty~five cents ($20.25)

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

anended.

(b) The amount of the said abatement, 1£ not deducted from the rates
and charges imposed. by By-law No. 752 at the time of payaent shall be patd 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 5 and
SectJon 7 of the Provincsal Komeowner Grant Acts being Chapter 368 of the

Revised Statutes of British Columbla, 1960, as amended; certifies that he ts

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