NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 62/02

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 62/02

Local Service District Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Municipalities Act, 1999

(Filed September 17, 2002)

Under the authority of section 415 of the Municipalities Act, 1999, I make the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, September 11, 2002.

Oliver Langdon
Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs

REGULATIONS

Analysis

CNLR 747/96
as amended

1. Section 45 of the Local Service District Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Entry permitted

45. (1) A committee or its authorized representative may, upon giving reasonable notice and at a reasonable time, enter upon all property within the local service district and into buildings and structures on that property, whether publicly or privately owned, to do all things necessary for the purpose of making surveys or examinations or obtaining information relative to the construction, attention, repair, maintenance or inspection of a public water supply system that the committee is empowered to undertake or control.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a committee or its authorized representative may enter upon property without notice where an emergency exists relevant to the operation of the water supply system but in so doing it shall make every reasonable effort to address the emergency without inconvenience to the owner or occupier of that property.

(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), a committee or its authorized representative shall not enter upon, break up or otherwise interfere with a highway vested in the Crown under section 5 of the Works, Services and Transportation Act without the written consent of the minister responsible for that Act under the Executive Council Act.

2. Section 48 of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Entry permitted

48. (1) A committee or its authorized representative may, upon giving reasonable notice and at a reasonable time, enter upon all property within the local service district and into buildings and structures on that property, whether publicly or privately owned, to do all things necessary for the purpose of making surveys or examination or obtaining information relative to the construction, attention, repair, maintenance or inspection of a public sewage system that the committee is empowered to undertake or control.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a committee or its authorized representative may enter upon a property without notice where an emergency exists relevant to the operation of the sewage system but in so doing, shall make every reasonable effort to address the emergency without inconvenience to the owner or occupier of the property.