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BYLAW NO. 1488, 2020
A bylaw to defer the 2020 Annual Tax Sale
WHEREAS under the Local Government Act S.645 authorizes Council to conduct an annual
tax sale on the last Monday of September;
AND WHEREAS, a declaration of a state of emergency throughout the whole of the Province
of British Columbia was declared on March 18, 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic;
AND WHEREAS under Ministerial Order No. M159 under the Emergency Program Act
Section 15 (1) allows Council to defer the annual tax sale for 2020, provided for under Division
7 [Annual Municipal Tax Sale] of Part 16 [Municipal Provisions] of the Local Government Act,
until September 27, 2021, with the effect that the annual tax sale would be on that date in
respect of the upset price described in section 649 [upset price for tax sale] of that Act;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the District of Hope, in open meeting assembled, enacts
as follows:
1. CITATION
This bylaw may be cited as the District of Hope 2020 Annual Tax Sale Deferment
Bylaw No. 1488, 2020.
2. ENACTMENT
That the 2020 annual tax sale be deferred until September 27, 2021.
Read for a first, second and third time this 27th day of July, 2020.
Adopted this 27th day of July, 2020.
Original Signed by Peter Robb
Original Signed by Donna Bellingham
Mayor
Director of Corporate Services
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