NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 125/04

Town of Trinity Bay North Order
under the
Municipalities Act, 1999
(O.C. 2004-421)

(Filed October 19, 2004)

Under the authority of section 3 of the Municipalities Act, 1999 the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following Order.

Dated at St. John's, October 18, 2004.

Robert C. Thompson
Clerk of the Executive Council

ORDER

Analysis

        1.   Short title

        2.   Town boundaries

        3.   General election

        4.   Returning officer

        5.   Council

        6.   Assets and liabilities assumed

        7.   Towns disincorporated

        8.   Effective date

Schedule

Short title

        1. This Order may be cited as the Town of Trinity Bay North Order.

Town boundaries

        2. The towns, settlements and lands situated within the boundaries defined in the Schedule are amalgamated, annexed and established to be the Town of Trinity Bay North.

General election

        3. (1) The general election for the Town of Trinity Bay North will take place on November 30, 2004.

             (2)  The town shall be comprised of the merged towns of Catalina, Port Union and Melrose, and the boundaries of the Town of Trinity Bay North are described in the Schedule.

             (3)  The council elected in the November 30, 2004 election shall have effect from the date of the coming into force of this order.

Returning officer

        4. (1) Ms. Melinda Mackey shall be appointed as returning officer for conducting the general election.

             (2)  Ms. Valerie Rogers shall be appointed as the alternate returning officer.

Council

        5. (1) The council which is to have control and management of the Town of Trinity Bay North shall consist of 7 persons:

             (a)  4 councillors to be elected at large; and

             (b)  one councillor to be elected in each of the 3 wards.

             (2)  The mayor of the Town of Trinity Bay North shall be elected from among the elected councillors.

Assets and liabilities assumed

        6. All assets and liabilities of the Towns of Catalina, Port Union and Melrose shall be assumed by the Town of Trinity Bay North.

Towns disincorporated

        7. The following towns are disincorporated and the Orders repealed:

             (a)  the Town of Catalina, as established in the Town of Catalina Order, Consolidated Newfoundland and Labrador Regulations 123/96;

             (b)  the Town of Port Union, as established in the Town of Port Union Order, Consolidated Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 377/96; and

             (c)  the Town of Melrose, as established in the Town of Melrose Order, Consolidated Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 282/96.

Effective date

        8. (1) This order shall come into force on January 1, 2005 or the date the amendments to the Municipalities Act, 1999 directed by MC 2004-0169 come into force, whichever date is later.

             (2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), for the purpose of electing a town council only, this order shall have effect from the date of publication.

Schedule

Beginning at a point on the eastern shoreline of Trinity Bay, that point being the high water mark of a small cove called Southern Bight;

Then north 87° 59' 49" west, 2,124 metres, more or less, to a high point;

Then north 21° 20' 3" west, 2,178 metres, more or less, to the eastern-most extremity of an unnamed pond;

Then north 2° 55' 35" west, 3,168 metres, more or less, to a point on a brook on the southern shoreline of an unnamed pond, that point being 444 metres, more or less east of the dam on the eastern side of Long Pond;

Then north 36° 28' 57" east, 3,115 metres, more or less, to the northern extremity of Lookout Pond;

Then south 83° 42' 34" east, 1,568 metres, more or less to the eastern extremity of Nolan Pond;

Then south 10° 51' 16" east, 2,144 metres, more or less to Shepherd Point;

Then in a southerly direction along the sinuosities of the shoreline at high water mark passing Goodland Point, Catalina Harbour, Courages Point, Port Union, Burnt Point, Black Cove, Melrose Harbour to Southern Bight to the point of beginning.

All bearings refer to grid north and as with distances given are subject to approximation as delineated on the 1:50000 National Topographic Mapping.

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