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BYLAW 1-90
A BYLAW OF THE TOWN OF OKOTOKS,
IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA,
RESPECTING THE NUMBERING OF PARCELS OF LAND
INCLUDING HOUSES AND OTHER STRUCTURES
PLACED THEREON
(As amended by Bylaw 23-10)
WHEREAS a Municipal Council may, pursuant to Section 175 of the Municipal
Government Act, Revised Statutes of Alberta, Chapter M-26 1980 and amendments
thereto, pass a bylaw for the orderly numbering of Iots on the streets and avenues and
for the renumbering of them from time to time as the Council considers expedient.
NOW THEREFORE, the Municipal Council of the Town of Okotoks, duly assembled,
enacts as follows:
1.
This Bylaw may be cited as "The Addressing Bylaw"
2.
In this bylaw
a)
"accessory building" means a building or structure naturally and normally
incidental, subordinate and exclusively devoted to the principal building, and
located on the same lot or site.
b)
"development officer" means the officer appointed pursuant to Section 2.1.1
of the Land Use Bylaw 1-80 and the person appointed to administer this
Bylaw.
c)
"development permit" means a certificate or document permitting a
development and includes a plan or drawing or set of plans or drawings,
specifications or other documents upon which the permit is issued.
d)
"free standing sign" means a display board, screen, structure or material
having characters, letters or illustrations applied thereto or displayed thereon
which is not attached to or part of any other building or structure located upon
the land.
e)
"highway" means a road or way open to the public as a right of way for the
purpose of passing and repassing and includes:
i.
a road or road allowance surveyed under the Surveys Act or any other
Act and;
ii.
a public roadway provided in a subdivision under the Planning Act or
any other Act,
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but does not include a lane.
f)
"lane" means a public thoroughfare not exceeding 30 feet in width which
provides a secondary means of access to a site or sites.
g)
"owner" means any person registered in the Land Titles Office as owner of a
parcel or any person who is beneficially entitled to ownership of a parcel,
whether his interest is registered or not, or the authorized agent of such
person.
h)
"parcel" means an area of land the boundaries of which,
i.
are shown on a plan registered in the Land Titles Office,
or
ii.
are described in the Certificate of Title to the land, and that has not
been divided into smaller areas by any plan or instrument registered in
the Land Titles Office.
i)
"public utility" means a system, works, plan equipment or service whether
owned or operated by or for the Town, or by a corporation under agreement
with or under franchise from the Town or under a Federal or Provincial
statute, which furnishes services and facilities available at approved rates to
or for the use of all the inhabitants of the Town, including but not limited to
i.
communication by way of telephone or telegraph,
ii.
public transportation by bus or other vehicle,
iii.
production, transmission, delivery or furnishing of water, gas or
electricity to the public at large.
iv.
collection and disposal of sewage, garbage and other waste.
j)
"structure" means a house, building, sign or fixture of any type that may be
built or placed on Iand.
k)
"Town" means the Town of Okotoks, and where the context so requires,
means the area contained within the boundaries of the Town of Okotoks.
l)
"Land Use Bylaw" means the Town of Okotoks' Land Use Bylaw 1-80, as
amended.
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3.
All registered parcels of land in the Town of Okotoks fronting upon a Town
highway whether vacant or occupied by a structure, shall be assigned an address
by Administration (23-10), whether or not the address is used for postal service,
location purposes, or computer retrieval.
4.
Every person who obtains a development permit from the Development Officer to
permit the construction of commercial, industrial, or multi-unit residential
development, or for the moving in of Mobile Homes, where more than one building
is involved and where an internal roadway system is utilized, shall be responsible
for the construction, erection and maintenance of directional signs to a standard
acceptable to Administration (23-10), as may be required by the Development
Officer, indicating the location of units therein.
5.
Where internal numbering is required as part of an address, whether for postal
service or utility computer retrieval purposes, the owner shall assign internal
numbering on a plan in accordance with the Policy for Assigning or Revising
Addresses for Parcels and Structures and in a manner acceptable to the
Development Officer. (23-10)
6.
(a) Where a development utilizes a name, to supplement the address for a
property, the owner of the property shall forthwith make application to register such
name with the Town in writing, including any revision thereof and the Town shall
assemble and maintain a registry of name facilities to avoid duplications. (23-10)
(b) Where the name is required for addressing purposes, no fee shall be charged
for registration; in all other cases, a fee in accordance with the Council Fee
Schedule shall be charged for each such registration. (23-10)
7.
All developments requiring public utility services, which developments include but
are not restricted to, free standing signs, parking lots, regulator services, telephone
booths, and civic and government buildings, shall be processed for assignment of
an address.
8.
(a) The proper number allotted pursuant to this bylaw, shall be affixed to the
appropriate structure in a conspicuous place, plainly visible from the highway, no
higher than the first storey of dwelling(s) or in an equivalent height in the case of
other structures.
(b) In addition to complying with subsection (a) above if the property has access to
a lane, the number allotted pursuant to this bylaw, shall be displayed, at all times
at a location plainly visible from the lane.
9.
Nothing in this bylaw shall be construed so as to prevent any owner or occupier of
any structure required by this bylaw to be numbered, from affixing numbers of
such size or type as the owner or occupier prefers, provided that such numbers
are not located above the height specified in Section 8(a) hereof, the numbers are
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the proper numbers allotted to such structure by the Town and are clearly visible
from the highway and/or lane.
10. (a) No owner or occupier of a structure bearing a number shall continue to use the
said number if notified in writing by Administration (23-10) that such structure is
wrongly numbered, or that the number has been revised, as may be necessary
from time to time.
(b) Written notice pursuant to (a) above shall be sent to the owner or occupier by
registered mail and shall require alteration of the wrong number to a correct
number designated by the Town within thirty (30) days of the date of the notice.
11. No person shall remove, deface, or obliterate or destroy the numbers placed upon
or affixed to any structure that has been duly numbered.
12. (a) Where a Bylaw Enforcement Officer believes that a person has contravened
any section of this bylaw set out in Schedule "A" to this Bylaw, which said
Schedule forms a part of the Bylaw, he may serve upon such a person a voluntary
payment tag in the form designated by the Municipal Commissioner allowing
payment of the penalty specified in Schedule "A" for such offence to the Municipal
Treasurer of the Town and such payment shall be accepted by the Town in Lieu of
prosecution for the offence.
(b) If the person upon whom a voluntary payment tag is served fails to pay the
required sum within the time specified in the voluntary payment tag, the provisions
of this section regarding acceptance of payment in Iieu of prosecution do not
apply.
(c) Nothing in this section shall:
(i)
prevent any person from exercising his right to defend any charge
of committing a breach of any of the sections referred to in
Schedule "A";
(ii)
prevent any Bylaw Enforcement Officer from laying an information
or complaint in lieu of serving a voluntary payment tag; or
(iii)
prevent any person from exercising any legal rights such person
may have to lay an information or complaint against any person
(whether such person has made payment under the provisions of
this Bylaw, or not) for a breach of any of the sections listed in
Schedule "A".
(d) Where any person has made payment pursuant to the provisions of this section
and is subsequently prosecuted at the instance of some person other than the
Town, for the offence in respect of which such payment has been made, such
payment shall be refunded.
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13. Wherever in this Bylaw it is directed that a person shall do any matter or thing,
then in default of its being done by such a person, the same may be done by the
Town at the expense of such person and the Town may recover the expenses
thereof, with costs, in any court of competent jurisdiction or in Iike manner as
municipal taxes.
14. Any person who contravenes any provision of this bylaw is guilty of an offence and
is liable upon summary conviction to a fine of not more than ONE THOUSAND
($1,000.00) DOLLARS or in default of payment of the fine to imprisonment for a
period of not more than three (3) months.
15. This bylaw comes into full force and effect upon third and final reading.
Bylaw 1-90 received third and final reading February 26, 1990.
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY
MAYOR AND MUNICIPAL SECRETARY
Bylaw 23-10 received third and final reading June 28, 2010.
ORIGINAL SIGNED BY
MAYOR AND MUNICIPAL SECRETARY
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THIS IS SCHEDULE "A"
TO THE ADDRESSING BYLAW (1-90)
The voluntary payment which may be accepted in lieu of prosecution for a contravention
of any of the provisions of any of the sections set out below shall be that sum set out
opposite the section number:
Section
Specified Sum
For Voluntary Payment
4
$25.00
5(a)
$25.00
5(b)
$25.00
5(c)
$25.00
6(a)
$25.00
8(a)
$25.00
8(b)
$25.00
10(a)
$25.00
10(b)
$25.00
11
$25.00