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## EXHIBIT "A" BYLAW NO. 18 A BYLAW RESPECTING DEED TRANSFER TAX
BE IT ENACTED by the Council of Region of Queens Municipality, under the authority of the Municipal Government Act, S.N.S. 1998, Chapter 18, as follows:
1. This bylaw shall be known as Bylaw Number 18 and may be cited as the "Deed Transfer Tax Bylaw".
## DEFINITIONS
2. "Deed" means an instrument by which land is conveyed, transferred, assigned, or vested in a person, but does not include a will, mortgage, agreement of sale or lease for a term of less than twenty-one years.
## DEED TRANSFER TAX
3. On every deed, whereby property situate wholly or partly within Region of Queens Municipality is conveyed, a deed transfer tax of one and one-half percent of the value of the property thereby conveyed is imposed and levied and payable to the Municipality.
## PENALTIES
4. Any person found to be in violation of this bylaw shall be liable, upon convection, to a fine of not less than Five Hundred Dollars ($500) and not more than Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000) and, in default of payment, to a term of imprisonment of a minimum of One (1) day and not to exceed Ninety (90) days.
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## EFFECTIVE DATE
- This bylaw shall take effect from the 1st day of June 2021.
## REPEAL
6. Deed Transter Tax Bylaw adopted by the Council of Region of Queens Municipality on the 15th day of March, 2010, is hereby repealed effective 11:59 p.m. on May 31, 2021.
## OFFICIAL CERTIFICATION
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT this bylaw was passed by the Council of Region of Queens Municipality at a duly constituted meeting of said Council held on the 11th day of May, 2021.
SIGNED by the Mayor and Deputy Clerk this 11th day of May, 2021.
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READINGS: First Reading:
Date of Publication:
Second Reading:
Newspaper Passing:
Filed / Approved:
April 13, 2021
April 21, 2021
May 11, 2021
May 19, 2021
Minister of Municipal Affairs
May 19,2021