A BY-LAW OF THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF SMOKY RIVER NO. 130, IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA TO SET AND ESTABLISH THE VARIOUS RATES AND PENALTIES TO BE CHARGED TO USERS OF WATER AND SEWER DELIVERED BY THE MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF SMOKY RIVER NO. 130 WITHIN THE HAMLETS OF GUY AND JEAN COTE.

WHEREAS, it is necessary that income from the water and sewer works within the hamlets be sufficient to maintain and repair the water and sewer works systems within the hamlets of Guy and Jean Cote,

AND WHEREAS, Part 2 and Part 3 of the Municipal Government Act R.S.A. 1994 Chapter M-26.1 provides for Council to set public utility rates and penalties,

NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the Municipal District of Smoky River No.130, duly assembled, hereby enacts as follows:

1. Residential and other users shall be charged at the following water usage rates on a bi-monthly basis:

• for the first 25 cubic metres $74.00 (basic rate)
• over 25 cubic metres - $1.10/cu.m

1. Residential users shall be charged for sewage usage at the rate of $16.00 bi-monthly.
2. All public utility accounts which remain unpaid after sixty (60) days of the forwarding or mailing of the account shall be assessed interest charges at a rate of one and one half percent (1.5%) per month until such accounts are paid in full.
3. Any public utility account which remains unpaid after sixty (60) days of the forwarding or mailing of the account shall be deemed to be an account in default.
4. In the event a water and sewer service has been shut off by reason of non-payment, a reconnection fee of $20.00 and all arrears and penalties shall be payable in advance of the turning on of the services.
5. Where any public utility account is in default, the Municipal District may enforce payment of any rate, charge, toll, fare or rent by any or all of the following methods:

1. by action in any Court of competent jurisdiction,
2. by shutting off the public utility being supplied to the consumer or discontinuing the service thereof, or
3. by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person owing the rates, charges, tolls, fares or rents wherever they may be found within the Municipal District of Smoky River No.130.

7. The powers of the Municipal District of Smoky River No.130 specified in Section 5 of this Bylaw shall be exercised by the Municipal Administrator of the Municipality.
8. In addition to the exercise of the powers specified in Section 5 of this Bylaw, and authorized under Division 4 of the Municipal Government Act Chapter M-26.1, the Municipal Administrator of the Municipality may at any time enter, or instruct the Municipal Assessor to enter, on the assessment and tax roll of a property the amount or amounts of all public utility accounts in default in respect of any public utilities supplied to the subject property; PROVIDED, that this action may be undertaken only in circumstances where the occupant of the property to whom the public utility has been supplied is the owner or purchaser of the property or any building located thereon.
9. Where any public utility accounts in default are entered on the assessment and taxation roll, the amount of any and all such public utility accounts in default are a preferential lien and charge on the real property and may be levied and collected in like manner as municipal rates and taxes are recoverable.
10. This Bylaw shall have force and take effect on the first day of January, 2001,

DONE AND PASSED in open Council assembled at Falher, in the Province of Alberta, this 11^th day of October, 2000.

Received FIRST reading the 11^th day of October, 2000.

Received SECOND reading the 11^th day of October, 2000.

Received THIRD reading and finally passed the 11^th day of October, 2000.

Reeve

Municipal Administrator