1116 Sewer Parcel Tax Bylaw

Lake Cowichan, British Columbia

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1 TOWN OF LAKE COWICHAN Bylaw No. 1116-2025 A BYLAW TO AMEND A SANITARY SEWER PARCEL TAX WHEREAS the Community Charter allows a Council, by bylaw, to amend and levy a parcel tax to provide all or part of the funding for a service; AND WHEREAS the Council of the Town of Lake Cowichan wishes to recover a portion of the costs of the Town's sanitary sewer service through a parcel tax; NOW THERFORE the Council of the Town of Lake Cowichan, in open meeting assembled enacts as follows: 1. TITLE This Bylaw may be cited for all purposes as the "Town of Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Parcel Tax Bylaw No. 1116-2025". 2. DEFINITIONS In this bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires COUNCIL means the Council of the Town of Lake Cowichan; TOWN means the Town of Lake Cowichan. 3. PARCEL TAX FOR THE LAKE COWICHAN SANITARY SEWER SERVICE (1) Council hereby increases the parcel tax levy for the Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Service, for the calendar year 2025 and all subsequent years. (2) The Town is to prepare an assessment roll for the Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Parcel Tax Roll to be used for imposition of this parcel tax. (3) This parcel tax shall be levied as a single amount for each parcel that has the opportunity to be provided with sanitary sewer service regardless of whether or not the service is being used. (4) The amount of this parcel tax shall be increased from Two Hundred and Fifty ($250.00) dollars per parcel per year to Three Hundred and Twenty Five ($325.00) dollars per parcel per year. 4. EXEMPTION Parcel that have no opportunity to connect to the Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Service are exempt from this parcel tax. Town of Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Parcel Tax Bylaw No 1116-2025 2 5. REPEAL That upon adoption of the bylaw being the "Town of Lake Cowichan Sanitary Sewer Parcel Tax Bylaw No. 1116-2025", Bylaw No. 1071-2022 and all amendments thereto are hereby repealed. READ A FIRST TIME on the 25th day of February, 2025. READ A SECOND TIME on the 25th day of February, 2025. READ A THIRD TIME on the 25th day of February, 2025. RECONSIDERED, FINALLY PASSED and ADOPTED by the Municipal Council of the Town of Lake Cowichan on the 25th day of March, 2025. Tim McGonigle Mark Brown Mayor Corporate Officer