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TOWN OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE
BY -
LAW 97/01V
A BY- LAW OF THE TOWN OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE IN THE
PROVINCE OF ALBERTA TO PROVIDE FOR THE ORDERLY NUMBERING
OF PARCELS OF LAND AND BUILDINGS.
WHEREAS, Section 58 of the municipal Government Act CHAPTER M-26.1,
R.S.A. 1994 and amendments thereto authorizes Council to pass a bylaw for the
orderly numbering of lots 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 Rocky Motmtain
House, duly assemble^ enacts as follows:
1. This Bylaw may be cited as "The Addressing Bylaw"
2. In this by-law
(a) "development officer" means the officer ap^inted pursuant to the Land
Use bylaw and the person appointed to administer this bylaw.
(b) "development pcrmir means a certificate or document permitting a
development and includes a plan or drawing or set of plaiu or drawings,
specifications or other documents upon which the permit is issued.
(c) "highway" mean a road or way open to the public as a right of way for the
purpose of passing an repassing and includes:
(i)
a road or road allowance sinveyed under the Surveys Act or
any other Act and;
(u)
a public roadway provided in a subdivision under any Act, but
does not include a lane.
(d) "lane" means a public thoroughfare not exceeding 30 feet in width, which
provided a secondary means of access to a site or sites.
(e) "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 entitled to ownership of a parcel, whether his interest
is registered or not, or die authorized agent of such person.
(f) "parcel" means an area ofland the boundaries of which,
(i)
are shown on a plan registered in the Land Titles Office,
(ii)
are described in die Certificate of Tide to the Land, and that
has not been divided into smaller areas by any plan or
instrument registered in the Land Tides Office.
(g) "stracture" mfatm a house, building, sign or fixture of any type that may be
built or placed on land.
(h) 'Town" means the Town of Rocky Mountain House, and where the
context so require, means die area contained widiin the boundaries of the
Town of Rocky Mountain House.
(i) "Land Use Bylaw" means the Town of Rocky Mountain House' Land Use
Bylaw.
3. AU registered parcels ofland in the Town of Rocky Mountain House fronting
iqion a highway whether vacant or occupied by a structure, shall be assigned an
address by the Planning & Development Department, whether or not toe
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 uttlir^d, shall be
responsible for the construction, erection and maintenance of direction signs to
a standard acceptable to the Planning &
Development Department, as may be
required by the Development Officer, indication 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 Development Office shall
assign such nuc^ers.
6. (a) the property number allotted pursuant to this bylaw, shall be affixed to the
appropriate structure in a conspicuous place, plainly visible Irom the
highway, no higher that the first story 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.
7. 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 not located above height specified in Section
8A hereof, the numbers are the property numbers allotted to such structure by
the Town and are clearly visible from the highway and/or lane.
8. (a) No owner or occupier of a structure bearing a number shall continue to use
the said number if notified in writing by the Planing and
Development
Department 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 &e Town within thirty (30) days of the date
of the notice.
9. No person shall remove, deface, or obliterate or destroy the
numbers placed upon or affixed to any structure that has been duly numbered.
10. (a) Where a Bylaw Enforcement Officer believes that a person has
contravened any section of fliis 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 allowing payment of die penalty specified in
Schedule "A" for such offence to die Town and such payment shall be
accepted by the Town in lieu of prosecution for the offence.
(b) If the person tqion whom a voluntary pa3nnent tag is served fails to pay the
required sum within the time specified in the voluntary pajment tag, the
provisions of this section regarding acceptance of payment in lieu of
prosecutions do not apply.
(c) Nothing in this section shall:
(j) prevent any person from exercising his right to defend any change
of committing a breach of any of die sections referred to in Schedule
"A":
(ii) prevent any Bylaw Enforcement Officer from laying an information
or coirqilaint 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 complain against any person (vdiether
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 hag made payment pursuant to the provisions of this
Sections and is subsequendy prosecuted at die 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.
11 Wherever in the 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 coun of competent jurisdiction or m like
manner as municipal taxes.
12. Any person who contravenes any provision of this bylaw is
and is liable upon summary conviction to a fine of not more ihaii ONt
THOUSAND ($1000.00) DOLLARS or in default ofpayment ot the tine to
imprisonment for a period of not more than three (3) months.
13. This bylaw comes into full force and effect upon third and final reading.
R£AD A FIRST TIME THIS 14™ DAY OF JANUARY A.D. ,1997
READ A SECOND TIME THIS 18™ DAY OF FEBURARY A.D.. 1997
READ A THIRD TIME THIS 18 TH DAY FEBRUARY A.D., 1997
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Town Manager
Mayor
THIS IS SCHEDULE «A"
TO THE ADDRESSING BYLAW (97/01V)
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 sums set out
opposite the section number
Section
4
6(a)
6(b)
8(a)
8(b)
9
Specified Sum
For Voluntary Pavment
$50.00
$50.00
$50.00
$50.00
$50.00
$50.00.