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BY-LAW HO,
A By-law to establish a Landlord and Tenant
Advisory Sureau, pursuant to Part II of the
“Landlord and Tenant Act"

WHEREAS the Council in a City or District Municipality shall, ane
any other municipal council may by by-law establish a Landlord and Tenant
Advisory Bureau to carry out the functions assigned to a Landlord and
Tenant Advisory Bureau under Section 66 of Part II of the Landlord and
Tenant act, being Chapter 207 of the R.S.B.C. 1975,

NOW THEREFORE THE NUNICIPAL COUNCIL of
ENACTS AS FOLLOWS: =

2. This By-law may be cited as “LANDLORD AND TENANT ADVISORY BUREAU BY-
LAW, 1973.°

2. An Advisory Bureau. to be known as the "Landlord and Tenant Advisory

Bureau", and hereinafter called the “Bureau” is hereby establishad:

(a) to advise landlords and tenants in tenancy mattera;

(b) to receive complaints from both landlords and tenants and seek
to mediate disputes between landlords and tenants;

{c) to disseminate infoumation for the purpose of educating and
advising landlords and tenants concerning rental practices, rights,
and remedies; and

(a) to recerve and investigate complaints of conduct in contravention
of legislation governing tenancies.

3. The Bureau shall be composed of three members, one member of which

shall be designated by Council as Chairman, appointed by Couneil for a

term of three (3) years, provided however that any appointment may be revoked
by not less than two-thirds of the members of Council present at any meeting.

4. Each member of tne Bureau shall have been a resident of the City or
Municipality of for at least two (2) years prior to his
4ppoiatment and shall be by occupation or experience a person knowledgeable
in respect to tenancy matters, rental practices of landlords and complaints
of tenants about tenancy matters or likely to become proficient therein so
at to be able to advise and mediate disputes arising between landlords

and tenants referred to tha Bureau and to be able to receive and investigate
complaints of conduct in contravention of legislation governing tenancies
including Provincial Statutes and municipal by-laws relating to public
health and safety through officers and employees of the eity or municipality
438igned by the Council.

5. The Bureau shall be responsible for the organization of ali its formal
aad informal activities, including such rules and procedures with respect
to ite affairs as it shall deen expedient and the same may be amended from
time to time, and the Municipal Clerk is hereby authorized to insert from

time to time on behalf of the Sureau appropriate public notices in newspaperg

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ofthe. timas.of meating-and ether activities of the bureau -reriting public

attention,

€. Ald communicationa with the Bureau Shall be in writing addressed ts the
Secretary, Landlord and Tenant Advisory Bureau, c/o City or Municipal
Clark, City Hall,

7. The City or Hunicipal Clerk shall Provide members of the Bureau with
such stenographic and other assistance as the Councii shall direct, includ-
ing a place where the Burcau Can carry out its mediation and other functions
with the parties concerned in camera or otherwise as the Burcau shall direct.

8. A disputant appearing before the Bureau in any mediation matter,

where the Bureau has determined that the parties secking mediation 63...1d
appear separately cr together in Person before it, may appear with or without
a friend.

Ss. All investigations of Complaints of conduct on contravention cf regis-
lation governing tenancies shall be Cerried out for th» purpose of &:tern-
ining whethar sufflcient evidence ix available to place before the Muinici-

pal Prosecutor for his inspecticn and to determine whether any furtsecr or
other measures should be sought in the form of legislation to further regulate
tenancies of residential premises,

30. At the end of each period of six (6) months of Operation the Bureau

shall report to the Municipal or City Council the extent and effect cf its
work in order that the Councli may appreciate tha worth of the Burea:'s
programma and what may be done to assist in furthering the Bureau's functions.
Advice to landlords and tenants in tenancy matters will include information
of tenancy contracts currently in use and will include advice to Prospective
landlords and tenants concerning current rental practices, rights and
Yemedies as filed with the Bureau for public dissemination.

lz. fap A landlord may require or receive a Security deposit for camage

from a tenant under a tenancy agreement entered into or renewed after the
said Act comes into force, other than the rent Payment for a period sot
exceeding one (1) month, which shall be applied in payment of the rent for
the last rent period under the tenancy agreement. Such security d-,osits for
damage shall not exceed one half (5) of the current montly rental rate;

(>) A landlord shal} pay annually, or fifteen days after the terancy is
terminated, whichever is earlier, to the tenant, interest on the se: urity
deposit for damage and the deposit for reat interest at the rate of six (S4&)
per cent per annun.

DONE AND PASSED IN OPEN COUNCIL

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