THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF “Cet N | [
. BY-LAW NO. 1485

Vi 15 1976

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 yeara
of age or over,

WHEREAS Section 202 of the Municipalities Enabling and Validating
Act, as amended, reads as follows:

"202 (1) The Council nay, by 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
‘cwned 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 walver of taxes, rates,
or charges pursuant to subsection (1) shall be made up from the general revenues

‘of the municipality.”

Now ‘THEREFORE, the Muntetpal Council of The Corporation of the
City of Port Coquitlam, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:
l. (a) Every person who, in accord with the provisions of Section 5 and
Section 7 o£ the Provincial Homeowner Grant Act; being Chapter 308 of the
Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1960, as anended; certifies that he is
sixty-five years of age or 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 Dollare 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"
amended,

(b) The anount 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 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