Issuance of summons It shall be the duty of the owner of every dog to see that the dog is securely housed between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. and that at no time shall the dog be on a city street unless the dog is accompanied by some person who has it under effective control by means of a leash or other device approved by the council. to regulate and adjust the levels of all streets of the city and the width and levels of all sidewalks; (e) The council may impose, fix, raise and collect from persons to whom a permit referred to in subsection (1) is granted, an annual or special charge or tax for the permit and the charge or tax shall be imposed, fixed, raised and collected in the same manner as other special and annual taxes or charges under this Act. (1)A person, other than the council or its employees, shall not cut down, trim, or remove trees on a street. The council may by regulation establish an appropriate form and size for that numbering. (b) (b) Where the council is satisfied that additional housing accommodation for those living or working in the city is urgently needed, and that the main purpose of the company is to help, in good faith, in supplying the need, and is not to make profits, and that the company, without borrowing the money required, over and above the proceeds of the guaranteed securities, for the housing accommodation in contemplation, will be able to provide the accommodation, the council may pass a by-law authorizing and providing for the giving by the council of the guarantee to the amount and upon the terms and conditions contained in this Schedule. Read the Development Regulation Appendices. Public Utilities Board The word "property" in this section means land, building, dwelling, structure, wharf or marine work. 113. 59. the formula used in setting rates or user fees paid to the council by a municipal authority served by a regional service; and. For the purpose referred to in subsection (1) available money, whether representing capital or otherwise, may be used but a 10% greater premium shall not be paid upon the redemption or getting in of a share. (a) The members of the court of revision shall be paid the remuneration that the council shall determine. (i) An order under subsection (7) shall not become effective unless confirmed by a resolution of the council approved by at least 5 councillors. Appeal (1)A member of the fire department shall not strike. 193. The commission appointed under section 304 shall have power to require the attendance and testimony of witnesses, and the production of books, papers, contracts and documents relating to matters within the scope of the investigation. 170. The owner of a vehicle removed by the city under subsection (1) shall pay to the city all costs and expenses incurred by the city in connection with the removal and in addition a charge fixed by the council not exceeding $3 a day for each day or part of a day during which the vehicle remains in the possession of the city. 348. requiring commercial property below the prescribed standards to be prepared and maintained to comply with the standards or the land to be cleared of all buildings and structures and left in a graded and levelled condition; and. (b) (11) 322. (4) (8) Money expenditure Planning by-law 296. 302. (3) 11. make rules, regulations and by-laws relating to the licensing of plumbers, the plumbing of buildings and the inspection of the plumbing and to apply the rules, regulations or by-laws within 1.6 kilometres outside the limits of the city as well as within the limits of the city and existing rules or regulations of the council so applied shall be considered to have been validly made and applied; (h) (2) 123. to make special rules, regulations and by-laws governing the erection of buildings on the Southside between Jobs Bridge and Fort Amherst, in that district lying between Temperance Street and Chain Rock, and in other districts to which the general building and sanitary regulations are especially difficult of application, or to which the water and sewage systems have not been extended; and, (g) generally, to give effect to the purpose of sections 340.1 to 340.24. Building and Development arising out of a contract or in tort, by or against the council may be taken in the name of the city. 35. Transfer after annexation 340.4 prescribing standards for the maintenance and occupancy of commercial property within the city and prohibiting the use of the commercial property that does not conform to the prescribed standards; (b) (2) Where a person liable to pay poll tax fails to pay, the city clerk may enforce payment by the means provided by this Act for the enforcement or collection of a tax payable to the city. Where a person, supplied with water by the council, wrongfully does, or permits to be done, anything in contravention of this Act or the regulations, or fails to do anything which under this Act or the regulations ought to be done for the prevention of waste, undue consumption, or contamination of the water, the council may, without prejudice to another remedy against that person, cut off any of the pipes through which water is supplied to him or her or for his or her use, and may stop supplying that person with water so long as the cause of injury remains or is not remedied. In this section, "economic development" means the continuation, expansion or establishment of a business or industry. constitute a hindrance to the maintenance, repair or improvement of the street, (iii) 308. To ensure a safe habitat for all to enjoy there are rules and regulations to support sharing the beach: Beach Code Land Development Code Article IV Beach Use Permits Municipal Elections Act (1)In this section and sections 340.19 and 340.20, "city negotiator" means an official of the city authorized by the council to bargain on behalf of the city under this section, and the city negotiator is considered, on behalf of the city, to be a party to the bargaining. (b) (6) A person who, unless that person is authorized to do so by the council, draws water from, opens, closes, breaks, or interferes with a fire hydrant, water main or water pipe or meter shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $100 or to imprisonment not exceeding 30 days. A house or other building which is erected on a street in contravention of subsection (1), is a public nuisance, and the same proceedings shall be had with respect to it that are provided with respect to other public nuisances. to assist a person or company in establishing or providing a parking lot in or near the city by lending money to that person or company or by guaranteeing the payment of a loan, mortgage, bonds or debentures raised or issued for the purpose of providing a parking lot or by undertaking to purchase from a company or person and on the terms and within the period that the council may determine land owned or acquired by a person or company and used or operated as a parking lot in or near the city; and. The council shall have power to prescribe the height and description of a fence to be erected. may contain other terms or conditions that the council considers appropriate. (5) (2) as to the proportion of the expense to be paid by the parties respectively. prohibit or regulate or prevent the ringing of bells and chimes, blowing of horns, beating of drums and other noises calculated to disturb or be an annoyance to persons; (j) The city spans 446.04 km 2 (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America (excluding Greenland).. Its name has been attributed to the belief that John Cabot sailed into the harbour on the Nativity of . An agent shall file with the council before the 21st day of each month a statement or return showing the total number of gallons of fuel oil, other than tax-exempt fuel oil, sold or delivered by the agent to consumers during the preceding month, whether or not he or she has received payment for the fuel oil, and the number of gallons used by the agent, and the statement shall be verified by affidavit and shall be in the form that the council prescribes. In the case of dwellings where, because of lack of water supply and connections with the sewers, sinks with running water are not provided inside the dwellings, those catch-basins for the disposal of waste water shall be provided as may be considered necessary in the opinion of the council. 370. (4) (2) (a) (b) 357. In this section "member" includes the firefighters and officers of the fire department. to set apart in or adjoining the streets of the city stands for the use of licensees and regulate the use of those stands; (g) . , 19 (2) (5) 80. After 5 (2) 96. (1)The council may by rules, regulations, or by-laws regulate, prohibit and control the construction, alteration, repair, use, operation, location, maintenance, occupancy, change of use, removal or demolition of a trailer. Unless the council otherwise orders, the city engineer or the building inspector shall, upon approval of the plans submitted to him or her, affix to the original plan and sign a permit as follows: "This plan and the attached specifications are approved, and permission is given for construction, alteration or repair of the building provided that nothing shall be done in respect of the building contrary to the laws and regulations of the city.". In estimating the damage to property by the altering or widening of a street the arbitrators shall take into account an additional value or advantage which may accrue to the several proprietors and occupants from the convenience and security given by the widening or altering of the street, and where the arbitrators are of opinion that any proprietors of land so required for the streets may be indemnified at less expense by having an equal portion assigned to them from adjoining land, the arbitrators shall mark off and in similar manner appraise so much of the adjoining land that they may think sufficient to replace the land required for the street, and the land so marked off shall belong to the first-mentioned proprietor and be instead of all indemnity, and the appraised value of the land shall be paid, and shall be in satisfaction of the indemnity, and of all right and title to the land. Orders for possession Check out the various categories of general news, and emergency notifications. 218. (2) Before the council may fluoridate the water supply of the city under subsection (1) it shall hold a plebiscite in the city for the purpose of determining the views of the persons entitled to vote under section 14 of the St. John's Municipal Elections Act as to the extent which the party wall between the parties shall occupy on the ground of each respectively; (b) 340.2 Rules of the road 384. Vidi Audited statement No nomination for mayor or deputy mayor (2) Commercial property A requirement of the council made under paragraph (2)(b) is not enforceable with respect to a residential property until the council has sent notice, which notice, shall, where mailed, be mailed on the same day as it is dated, by registered mail to or served on the owner and all persons known to the council to have an interest in the residential property and upon the occupant of the property. 15. (2) (2) (4) (l) to waive, remit or reduce taxes or assessments on the lands or the lots into which they are divided or the dwellings erected on the land or the tenants of the land or to set a fixed annual payment of, instead of taxes and assessments in the amount and for the period that the council may in its discretion determine and to provide on any basis to the dwellings and to the tenants of the facilities, privileges and services of the city that are now or shall be provided afterward or made available by the city to other properties or property owners in the city; and. (2) (1)Notwithstanding subsection 328(2), the city manager, the city clerk, the city comptroller, the city planning officer, the city engineer and the city solicitor. 207. refuses to give the appraisers correct information, (c) The council shall have power to make rules, regulations, and by-laws for the purpose of putting into effect the powers and performing the functions and duties vested or imposed by this Act in or on the mayor and council or an official of the city, provided always that those rules, regulations, and by-laws shall not be contrary to the laws of the province. For more information about codes, standards and related construction topics, follow the links below (all links are to external websites that are not part of, or controlled by, St. Johns County). 340.24 Parks (14) Private sewage house Where the owner or tenant of a building is unable to alter, repair or maintain the building without entering upon adjoining property, he or she may, where unable to agree with the owner or tenant of the adjoining property on terms of permission for entry, apply to the council. prescribing what offences against regulations may be tried under the Provincial Offences Act 303. A newly constructed building may not be occupied in whole or in part until the required certificates have been issued by the city engineer and plumbing inspector. A substantial ladder shall be fixed to the roof of every dwelling house and kept in good repair by the owner except where a regular access to the roof from the inside is provided. 80. Planning and Development Services John Murphy Building (City Hall Annex), 4th floor10 New Gower StreetP.O. "building inspector" means a building inspector appointed under this Act; (d) (f) It shall be the duty of the city engineer, between the months of May and October of each year, for the detection and prevention of waste to examine all water mains and service pipes of the city during the hours from 12:00 a.m. Vehicle identification (2) "SIGILLUM-MUNICIPALIS-SANCTIONIS TERRAE-NOVAE". Victoria Park (3) until that street is included within the limits of the city. 125. (5) Care of public trees (6) (3) 261. 131. Further powers The council shall have power to make rules, regulations, or by-laws relating to and governing vacations, sick leave, and leave of absence from duty of employees of the council. 12. Offences The council is empowered to construct a dam on the Broad (h) Except as provided by this section, nothing in this section shall take away, restrict or transfer, or be considered to take away, restrict or transfer, any rights of the council, statutory or otherwise. Exception The total amount of securities to be guaranteed shall not in the first instance exceed 75% of an amount to be fixed in the deed of trust as representing the value of the lands and housing accommodation and improvements to be built and made on the lands, and the deed may make provisions for the expenditure of additional money on the lands and housing accommodation and improvements and for the acquisition of additional lands to be made part of the mortgaged premises, and for expenditure on the lands, and for the issue of additional guaranteed securities under the deed, but so that the total amount outstanding shall not exceed 75% of the value of the mortgaged premises to be ascertained and fixed in the manner provided in the deed, and for the issue of the additional securities in advance of expenditure, and for the disposition of the money to be raised by sale, pledge or otherwise, pending the expenditure of it. Preservation of documents (3) Diversion of appropriations (viii) Annulment (13) to prepare and present to the council, not later than December 15 of each year, an itemized estimate of the financial needs of the departments referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) for the next year, and of sums which may be required for other public works that he or she considers necessary; (d) where it is proven to the satisfaction of the council that the owner of the house is unable to pay the cost of the sanitary improvements required it shall be lawful for the council to connect the house with the general water and sewage system by constructing, laying and introducing branch pipes with taps and other appliances that may be necessary for introducing the water from the council's water pipes and for carrying off sewage into the council's main drain or sewer; and to construct upon the premises or within the grounds of the premises sufficient water closets, troughs, or sinks in the manner and in the places that to the council seem most desirable, and the cost of the connection shall be repaid to the council in the manner provided in section 184. 2. (3) to see that all books of accounts directed by the council to be kept by and of the officials of the tax, assessment and collecting departments are correctly kept and submitted for audit upon request and to collect, receive and safely keep all money belonging or accruing due to the city and to pay out the money only to the persons and in the manner that is directed by this Act or by the laws or resolutions of the council; (e) Lien for taxes Extension areas Pension schemes may be brought into operation by by-law and may be either on the contributory or on the non-contributory principle, and the council may enter into the arrangements with insurance companies and other companies in connection with pension schemes that it considers advisable. Park (3) All that area situated and being in the districts of Ferryland and Harbour Main bounded and abutted as follows: By a line starting at the mouth of Mobile River and running in a general northwesterly direction for a distance of 15 miles more or less along the divide between the area drained by Mobile River and the area drained by Witless Bay River and Pierres Brook; then turning and running in a general southwesterly direction for a distance of 13 miles more or less along the divide between the area drained by the Mobile River and the area drained by rivers flowing into Conception Bay and St. Mary's Bay; then turning and running in a general easterly direction along the divide between the area drained by the Mobile River and the area drained by Tors Cove River for a distance of 17 miles more or less to the place of commencement (the area containing 50 square miles more or less). 339. (2) (3) (1)The council shall have power by by-laws, rules or regulations to require the owners, lessees or managers of public buildings within the city limits to make the reasonable provision that the council in its discretion shall prescribe, either generally or in the case of a particular building, for the safety and protection from injury by fire, panic or otherwise of persons resorting to those buildings. (3) to sell or lease all or a part of an area to a corporation, group or person for the development of the area or a part of the area for a purpose which the council considers desirable and upon the terms that the council considers appropriate; (g) 174. . to sell, lease, or dispose of the land forming a street which has been closed permanently by the council under paragraph (c). 340.15 112. A person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding $25, or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 30 days. (2) 175. (2) Appeal Street lighting (1)Subject to existing rights, the council shall have the exclusive right of granting and extending franchises, with or without exclusive rights or privileges, in respect of transportation, light, heat, power, water, gas, sewage, telephone, telegraph and aeronautical developments and enterprises within the limits of the city and all similar public utilities in the city. (ii) 300. (4) revoked and other regulations substituted for it. The definition includes: Excavation, land clearing, grubbing and subdividing parcels of land are all considered development. (ii) Where a vehicle belonging to or in use by the city is employed in effecting removal of the vehicle under subsection (1), the costs and expenses of removal payable by the owner shall be equivalent to the ordinary reasonable charge which would be made by a garage operator if the removal were effected by a truck of a garage operator engaged by the council for the purpose of removal. (3) (a) (1)The decision of the presiding officer on all points of order is final, subject to an appeal by a councillor. 366. (1)The council shall have power to provide light and power for the city and may contract with a person, firm or company for the provision of the light and power that may be required for the purpose. (1)The council shall have power to reduce or remit payment of a general tax on account of the poverty of a person liable to the payment of it. Money shall not be drawn for a purpose until the council has sanctioned the expenditure and ordered the amount to be paid, and money shall not be voted for a purpose otherwise than at the regular weekly meeting of the council except. Where a water tax or instalment of water tax, imposed upon and payable by the occupier of the premises, is not paid to the council by the occupier within 1 month after the tax or instalment is payable by the occupier, the tax or instalment shall become payable immediately to the council by the owner of the premises and shall attach to and be a charge upon the premises in the same manner as other taxes and assessments under this Act and may be recovered by the council from the owner by any of the remedies provided by this Act for the recovery of taxes and assessments; and, upon payment of the tax or instalment to the council in accordance with this subsection, the owner shall be entitled to recover from the occupier by action in a court, the amount so paid by the owner. Unfit dwellings Borrowing money The council shall build public water closets, baths, catch-basins, and wash-houses in the localities that it may consider advisable. 379. for the fighting of fires, the prevention of fire in the city and the inspection of buildings in the city for fire prevention services. (5) "house" includes schools, factories, and other buildings in which more than 1 person is employed at a time; (l) (1)The council shall have possession and control of Windsor Lake, Round Pond, Newfound Pond, George's Pond, Petty Harbour Long Pond, Handy Pond and all lakes and ponds within the catchment area of the Broad Cove River above an elevation of 91.44 metres over mean sea level at the Harbour of St. John's and of the Crown lands within the watershed of those lakes and ponds. Enforcing bylaw regulations and standards; . Notwithstanding another Act or law, all streets and roads within the boundaries of the city as fixed and delimited by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council dated December 10, 1963, or that may be fixed and delimited by Order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council are vested in the city. 221. 68. (5) Regional services (3) A resignation referred to in subsection (1) or (2) shall be filed with the city clerk before the beginning of the notice period set out in subsection 14(5) of the Municipal Elections Act In this Act or rules, regulations or by-laws made under this Act, the words "development or subdivision of land" or the word "subdivide" include a division of land into 2 or more lots or parts or work on land with a view to its division into 2 or more lots or parts. 178. Election void (2) (11) Prohibition in supply area The council may in cases of financial need agree to defer the payment of a person's tax for the period and upon the conditions that it considers just. a class of persons, dependents, pensioners or others who may be granted exemptions under regulations made by the council. Dangerous materials a building which is an accessory building to an existing private family dwelling and for the purpose of this paragraph "accessary building" means a detached building appurtenant to a dwelling and located on the same lot and providing better and more convenient enjoyment of the dwellings; (b) 69. (2) (v) Capital Construction Projects Plan of Crown lands (5) 269. 319. 329. (3) The mayor, or in the mayor's absence, the deputy mayor, or in the absence of the mayor and deputy mayor, the councillor elected under section 16 shall preside at all meetings of the council. provide, purchase, lease or acquire lands, buildings, buses, vehicles, equipment and property or assets considered necessary for the operation of a bus passenger service; (b) and what offences may be dealt with under regulations made under paragraph (h); (g) to manage and have charge of the construction, improvement, repair and maintenance of streets, sidewalks, bridges, water and sewage systems and all other city works, buildings and properties and of all premises and equipment belonging to or used in connection with the departments under his or her charge; (e) A car or vehicle shall not remain stationary on the crossing of a street. (3) Assessment enforced . 338. Lake Effect of error 109. Fire department 364. Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the regulations shall provide that a member shall not.
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