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 "municipality_id": "gx-000271",
 "municipality": "Empress",
 "status_type": "Village",
 "jurisdiction": "Alberta",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "fees_rates",
 "label": "Fees & rates",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-06-08",
 "official_website": "https://www.villageofempress.com",
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   "title": "2022 10 Fee Review Bylaw",
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   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://villageofempress.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-Fee-Review-Bylaw.pdf",
   "summary": "Establishes the schedule of municipal service fees and charges for the Village of Empress.",
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   "facts": {
    "schedule_scope": "all administrative fees, and all fee schedules of all bylaws related to provision of Utilities, Development, Licensing or Traffic Control"
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   "fact_citations": {
    "schedule_scope": "3.1"
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   "transcript_url": "/ca/ab/empress/fees/text-0b860dc4691c/",
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   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Bylaw for Tax Rates 2025",
   "category": "fees_rates",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": null,
   "document_url": "https://villageofempress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Bylaw-for-Tax-Rates-2025-.pdf",
   "summary": "Sets the 2025 municipal tax rates and mill rates for the Village of Empress.",
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   "facts": {
    "schedule_scope": "Property tax rates for all classes of land, buildings and improvements in the Village of Empress, Alberta for 2025",
    "notable_fees": "General Municipal mill rate: 26.54828470 (residential/farm/non-residential); ASFF residential 2.4833 mills; ASFF non-residential 4.6762 mills; minimum property tax $625 (farm, residential, commercial)",
    "effective_date": "2025-04-16"
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "schedule_scope": "s. 1 \"levy the following rates of taxation on the assessed value of all land, buildings and improvements\"",
    "notable_fees": "s. 1 tax rate tables; s. 2 \"minimum amount payable as property tax\"",
    "effective_date": "s. 3 \"Read a third and final time on this 16th day of April 2025\""
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}