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The Rural Municipality of Mountain
BY-LAW NO. 01/2024
BEING A BY-LAW OF THE RURAL MUNICIPALITY OF MOUNTAIN FOR THE PURPOSE OF APPROVING THE ANNUAL FINANCIAL PLAN AND TAX LEVY FOR 2024.
WHEREAS Section 304(1) of The Municipal Act provides as follows:
304(1) No later than May 15 of each year, after adopting its operating budget for the year, a Council must by by-law
(a) set a rate or rates of tax sufficient to raise
(i) the revenue to be raised by property taxes as set out in the operating budget, and
(ii) the revenue to be raised in the year to pay for a local improvement or special service and pay the requisitions payable by the municipality;
(b) impose taxes
(i) in accordance with the tax rate or rates set under clause (a) on the portioned value of each assessable property in the municipality that is liable under The Manitoba Assessment Act to that tax, and
(ii) where the tax in respect of a local improvement or special service, in accordance with the local improvement or special services by-law, and
(c) set a due date for payment of taxes.
AND WHEREAS the Rural Municipality of Mountain has made the annual estimates of all sums required by the municipality for the year 2024 which estimates are attached hereto as Schedule 'A' and form part of this by-law.
AND WHEREAS assessments according to the latest revised assessment roll of the Rural Municipality of Mountain are as follows:
Other Property Assessment - Education Support Levy 2,038,030
Rateable Properties for School Division Levies 56,994,320
Rateable Properties for General Municipal Purposes 55,979,000
Rateable Business Assessment 168,000
Rural Area 51,225,600
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Rural Municipality of Mountain in Council duly assembled hereby enacts a by-law as follows:
ESTIMATES
THAT the estimates of The Rural Municipality of Mountain of all sums required for the lawful purposes of the municipality for the year 2024 as set forth in Schedule 'A' attached hereto and identified by the signatures of the Reeve and Chief Administrative Officer are hereby approved and adopted.
UNCONTROLLABLE PURPOSES
THAT the respective rates of so much on the dollar be and hereby are levied for the year 2024 upon the assessed value of all the rateable property and personal property in the municipality respectively liable therefore, according to the latest revised assessment roll of real and personal property thereof, to raise the sums required for the uncontrollable purposes of the municipality, which said rates, assessed values and sums required are set out in Schedule 'A',
The following respective Foundation and Special Rates of so many mills on the dollar, under Section 182, 183 and 187 of 'The Public Schools Act' as shown in Schedule 'A':
Education Support Levy 8.128 mills
School Division
Swan Valley 12.167
Mountain View 13.87
Frontier 12.837
CONTROLLABLE PURPOSES
That a general rate of 16.45 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied for the year 2024 upon the assessed value of all the rateable property in that portion of the municipality described as the levy at large, according to the last revised general and personal property assessment rolls thereof, to provide for the payment of the amount estimated as required for the general controllable purposes of the municipality which includes:
General Government Services 710,175.27
Protective Services 171,857.40
Transportation Services 1,055,579.50
Environmental Health Service 198,980.00
Public Health and Welfare Services 17,911.00
Environmental Planning and Community Development Services 185,000.00
Economic Development Services 189,077.63
Recreation and Cultural Services 62,080.00
Fiscal Services 280,045.32
Transfers 567,725.00
That a rate of 12.46 mills on the dollar be and is thereby levied for the year 2024 on all properties that are not within the LUD of Birch River, LUD of Mafeking or LUD of Pine River.
That a rate of 2.0 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied for the year 2024 for Bridge Repair and Replacement as set out in By-Law No. 03/2015.
That a rate of 3% be hereby levied upon the assessed value of all rateable property liable according to the last revised Business Assessment Roll of the municipality.
LUD OF BIRCH RIVER
That a rate of 31.2 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied for the year 2024 on properties respectively assessed out in Schedule 'A', to provide for payment to the LUD of Birch River;
That a rate of 2.046 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied on all properties [including otherwise exempt] for the Birch River Force Main and Lift Station to be levied against all properties described in Debenture By-Law No. 01/2007;
That a rate of $0.25 per lineal foot for the Birch River Force Main and Lift Station to be levied against all properties described in Debenture By-Law No. 01/2007;
That a rate of 21.96 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied on all properties [including otherwise exempt] for the Birch River Sewer Phase 2 to be levied against all properties described in Debenture By-Law No. 02/2009;
That a rate of $.75 per lineal foot for the Birch River Sewer Phase 2 to be levied against all properties described in Debenture By-Law No. 02/2009;
LUD OF MAFEKING
That a rate of 23.14 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied for the year 2024 on properties respectively assessed out in Schedule 'A', to provide for payment to the LUD of Mafeking;
LUD OF PINE RIVER
That a rate of 47.59 mills on the dollar be and is hereby levied for the year 2024 on properties respectively assessed out in Schedule 'A', to provide for payment to the LUD of Pine River;
PAYMENT OF TAXES
THAT all taxes and rates imposed and levied in the Rural Municipality of Mountain for the year 2024 shall be deemed to have been imposed, and due and payable on the 30th day of September, 2024.
THAT taxes shall be liable to penalty of 1.25% per month, compounded monthly beginning the first day of October, 2024.
THAT discounts shall be made in respect of all taxes due and payable as follows:
June 1 - July 31, 2024 2%
August 1-31, 2024 1%
September 1-30, 2024 Par
DONE AND PASSED as a By - Law of The Rural Municipality of Mountain, at Birch River, in the Province of Manitoba, this 24th day of April, A.D. 2024.
Rural Municipality of Mountain
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Reeve
Keith Behrmann
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Chief Administrative Officer
Paige Wozny
Read a first time this 12th day of April, A.D. 2024.
Read a second time this 24th day of April, A.D. 2024.
Read a third time this 24th day of April, A.D. 2024.
I, Paige Wozny, Chief Administrative Officer of the Rural Municipality of Mountain, hereby certify under the corporate seal of the Municipality, that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of By-Law No. 01/2024 of The Rural Municipality of Mountain, which has been given 3rd reading on the 24th day of April, A.D. 2024.
The Rural Municipality of Mountain
CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER