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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LAIRD
By-Law No. 2088-26
BEING A BY-LAW to set and levy final tax rates and to repeal By-law 2085-26, and to
further provide for penalty and interest in default of payment thereof for 2026.
WHEREAS Section 312 of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended, provides that the
Council of a local municipality shall pass a by-law to levy a separate tax rate on the
assessment in each property class; and
WHEREAS Section 307 and 308 of the said Act require tax rates to be established in
the same proportion to tax ratios; and
WHEREAS the sum required for general municipal expenses purposes is estimated at
$2,083,088; and
WHEREAS certain education rates are provided in various regulations, and
commercial and industrial education amounts have been requisitioned by the Province;
and
WHEREAS By-law 2085-26, passed on May 21, 2026, contained incorrect tax rates
and must be repealed and replaced;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Laird enacts as
follows:
1. THAT the following tax rates are hereby adopted for the year 2026:
MUNICIPAL EDUCATION TOTAL
CLASS
RATE
RATE
TAX RATE
Res/Farm
0.01423784
0.00153000
0.01576784
Commercial Occupied
0.01506221
0.00880000
0.02386221
Commercial Vacant
0.01054355
0.00880000
0.01934355
Industrial Occupied
0.01391180
0.00880000
0.02271180
Industrial Vacant
0.00904267
0.00880000
0.01784267
Farmlands
0.00355946
0.00038250
0.00394196
Managed Forests
0.00355946
0.00038250
0.00394196
Aggregate Extraction 0.01132013
0.00511000
0.01643013
BT Shortline Railway Right-of-Way
0.11815000
2. THAT all taxes shall become due and payable in two installments as follows:
50% of the final levy shall become due and payable on July 17, 2026.
50% of the final levy shall become due and payable on September 18, 2026.
3. THAT on all taxes of the levy which are in default, a penalty of 1.25 per cent shall
be added, and thereafter a penalty of 1.25 per cent per month will be added on the
first day of each and every month the default continues, until December 31, 2026.
4. THAT on all taxes in default on January 1, 2027, interest shall be added at the rate
of 1.25 per cent per month for each month or fraction thereof in which the default
continues.
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5. THAT penalties and interest added in default shall become due and payable and
shall be collected as if the same had originally been imposed and formed part of
such unpaid tax levy.
6. THAT taxes are payable to the Township of Laird, at the Municipal Office, 3
Pumpkin Point Road West, R. R. #4, Echo Bay, ON P0S 1C0.
7. That By-law 2085-26 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
8. THAT this by-law comes into force and take effect upon the date of passing.
PASSED in open meeting this 18th day of June 2026.
Mayor __________________________
Shawn Evoy
Seal
Clerk ___________________________
Jennifer Errington