WHEREAS,
the municipality requires the ability to control the water
supply to each individual rental unit or tenant within a
structure containing more than one rental unit or tenant,
including the ability to meter water supply to each rental unit
or tenant and the ability to turn on and off the water supply to
each rental unit or tenant;
AND WHEREAS,
the Municipal Act R.S.O. 1990 C. M-45, S. 222(1)
authorizes the municipality to pass by-laws requiring owners of
buildings in the Municipality to connect to water works of the
municipality and in default of such connection by the owner of
the building, to make the connection and recover the cost;
AND WHEREAS,
the Public Utilities Act R.S.O. 1990 C. P-52, S.6
authorizes the municipality to determine satisfactory
installation of a service pipe;
AND WHEREAS,
the Public Utilities Act R.S.O. 1990 C. P-52, S.28
authorizes the municipality to pass by-laws for the maintenance
and management of the water works including by-laws to determine
the rent or work charges for fittings, apparatus, meters or
other things leased or furnished to consumers and providing for
the collection of such rates, charges and rents;
AND WHEREAS,
the Public Utilities Act R.S.O. 1990 C. P-52, S.50
authorizes the municipality to have free access to all parts of
every building to which water is supplied for the purpose of
inspecting or repairing, or altering or disconnecting any
service pipe, within or without the building or for placing
meters upon any service pipe connection within and without the
building and further to fix the costs of such alterations or
installation and further authorizes the municipality to enter
the premises in or upon which water is supplied to cut off the
supply of water where the municipality lawfully refuses to
continue to supply it;
NOW THEREFORE,
the council of the Corporation of the Township of North Dundas,
HEREBY ENACTS as follows;
1.
A Rental unit
has the meaning ascribed in S.1 of the Tenant Protection Act
, S.O. 1997, c.24 excluding S.1(b) and including premises
occupied by a tenant
within the meaning of the Commercial Tenancies Act, R.S.O.
1990, c. L-7 as amended.
2.
An Owner of a building means the
party in whose name the property, in which the Rental Unit is
located, appears on the municipal tax roll.
3.
The
Owner of a building shall provide separate water supply systems to
each individual rental unit or tenant
at the building terminus of the service pipe
connecting the main to the building such that the supply of
water/service pipe to each individual rental unit or tenant can be
separately metered and turned off and on without affecting the
other rental units or tenants or occupiers of the building.
4. Where the Owner of a
building fails to provide such works as set out under 2 above, the
municipality may, on nine months notice as provided for in
S.222(3) of the Municipal Act, enter in and upon the
property of the Owner and complete the works at the expense of the
Owner and collect such costs in accordance with S.222.
5. The Owner of a building may, instead of installing the
works described above or permitting the municipality to do so,
advise the municipality that the water and sewer account for the
Rental Unit shall be recorded as an account in the Owner's name or
as part of the Owner's account and subject to being added to the
Owner's tax roll in the event of default in payment. An Owner
wishing to exercise this option must do so by written notice to
the municipality within 30 days of being advised by the
municipality that separate connections are required.
READ
A FIRST AND SECOND TIME THIS 9th DAY OF September, 2002.
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Mayor
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Clerk
READ
A THIRD AND FINAL TIME AND PASSED ON THIS 9th DAY OF SEPTEMBER
2002.
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Mayor
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Clerk
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