CANADA: Under and by virtue of the Public Parks Act, and of a by-law No. of the corporation of the under the powers in said Act contained, of passed promise to pay to the which said sum the city of The corporation of the bearer the sum of case may be) promise to pay at (insert where payable) on the (or as the day of 18 with interest at the rate of per cent., said interest to be payable (half-yearly, or as the case may be) to the bearer of the annexed coupons or interest warrants respectively, upon the presentation thereof at the said An Act to authorize Cities, Towns and Villages to provide Gas and other means of Lighting and Heating. SHORT TITLE, s. 1. CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS, s. 2. POWERS AS TO LANDS, SS. 3-5. ! REMOVAL OF FITTINGS, S. 9 (3). POWER TO CARRY WORKS INTO AD- PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY NOT TO RESTRICTIONS AS TO LAYING MAINS, ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be known as "The Municipal Light and Short title. Heat Act." 46 V. c. 21, s. 1. may construct 2.-(1) The corporation of every city, town, or incorporated Corporations of cities, etc., village shall have power to manufacture and supply, for the use of the corporation and of all persons, gas for heating, cooking, gas works, etc. and all other purposes for which gas can be used, and to manu May sell coke, etc. May rent or purchase lands. Property of corporation exempt from distress. Corporation may break up streets, etc. Corporation may carry of buildings to supply other parts. facture and supply electric, galvanic, or any other artificial light or heat, either in connection with gas or otherwise; and for these purposes shall have power to construct, purchase, improve, extend, hold, maintain, manage and conduct any works which they may deem requisite; and shall have power to acquire any patent or other rights, for the manufacture or production of any artificial light or heat, and also to supply, sell or lease, all fittings, machines, apparatus, meters, or other things for the purposes aforesaid. (2) The corporation may sell and dispose of coke, tar, and every other product, refuse or residuum obtained in or from their said works, and any surplus coal they may have on hand. (3) The corporation shall have power to rent or purchase such lands and buildings as they deem necessary or advantageous for the purposes aforesaid. (4) No property of the corporation shall be liable to be seized for rent due to the landlord of any lands or buildings upon or in which gas, electricity or other means of lighting or heating, may be supplied by the corporation. 46 V. c. 21, s. 2. 3. The corporation, or their servants under their authority, may, for the purpose of laying down, taking up, examining, or keeping in repair the pipes or wires used for conducting the gas, electricity, or other means of lighting or heating, break up, dig, and trench in, upon, through, over and under the highways, streets, lanes, roads, squares, and other public passages and places in the municipality, or, with the consent of the owner, in, upon, through, over and under, any private property; or may, upon poles or otherwise, conduct such wires or rods along and across such streets, lanes, roads, squares and other public passages and places, or, with the consent of the owner, upon private property. 46 V. c. 21. s. 3. 4.-(1) Where there are buildings within the municipality pipes and wires the different parts whereof belong to different proprietors, or are through parts in possession of different tenants or lessees, the corporation may carry pipes, wires or rods, to any part of any building so situate, passing over the property of one or more proprietors, or in the possession of one or more tenants, to convey the gas, electricity, or other means of lighting or heating, to the property of another, or in the possession of another. May also break up pas (2) Such pipes, wires or rods shall be carried up, and attached to the outside of the building, unless consent is obtained to carry the same in the inside. 46 V. c. 21, s. 4. 5.-(1) The corporation may also break up and uplift all passages common sages common to neighbouring proprietors or tenants, and dig or cut trenches therein, for the purpose of laying down pipes or wires, or taking up or repairing or examining the same, doing as to different proprietors. little damage as may be in the execution of the powers hereby conferred, and restoring such passages to their original condition without unnecessary delay. (2) The corporation shall make satisfaction to any owner or tenant for all damages sustained by him in the execution of the said powers conferred by this section. 46 V. c. 21, s. 5. not to be 6. The corporation shall construct and locate their gas and Public safety other works, and all apparatus and appurtenances thereunto endangered. belonging or appertaining, or therewith connected, and wheresoever situated, so as not to endanger the public health or safety. 46 V. c. 21, s. 6. poration con supply 7. Where the corporation has constructed any works for Municipal corsupplying the municipality with gas and where there is a suf- structing ficient supply thereof, it shall be the duty of the corporation works to to supply with gas all buildings within the municipality situate buildings on upon land lying along the line of any supply pipe of the line of supply, corporation, upon the same being requested by the owner, occupant or other person in charge of any such building. 47 V. c. 26, s. 1. on request. maintenance 8. The corporation may, from time to time, make and en- Power to make force all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations for the by-laws for general maintenance and management of all works constructed and manageor maintained under this Act, and of the officers and others ment of works, employed in connection with them, and for the collection of the rates or charges for supplying gas or electricity or other means of lighting or heating hereunder, and for the rent of fittings, machines, apparatus, meters or other things leased to consumers, and for fixing such rates, charges and rents, and the times and places when and where the same shall be payable; and the corporation may allow for prepayment or punctual payment such discount as they deem expedient. 46 V. c. 21, s. 7. enforce pay 9.-(1) The corporation may enforce payment of such rates, Power to charges or rents by action in any Court of competent juris- ment of rates. diction, or by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person owing such rates, charges or rents, wherever the same may be found in the municipality in which the gas, electricity or other means of lighting or heating is supplied. (2) Such distress and sale shall be conducted in the same Distress and manner as sales are conducted for arrears of taxes, and the sale. costs chargeable shall be those payable to bailiffs under The Rev. Stat. Division Courts Act. c. 51. (3) Where any consumer discontinues the use of the gas or Removal of other means of lighting or heating furnished by the corpora- premises of fittings from tion, or the corporation lawfully refuses to continue any longer consumers. to supply the same, the officers and servants of the corporation may at all reasonable times enter the premises in or upon Power to carry works into adjoining municipalities. Restrictions as to laying mains in streets used for the mains company. which such consumer was supplied with gas, or other means of lighting or heating, for the purpose of removing therefrom any fittings, machines, apparatus, meters, pipes or other things being the property of the corporation, in or upon such premises, and may remove the same therefrom, doing no unnecessary damage. 46 V. c. 21, s. 8. 10. A corporation possessing, or intending to construct works under this Act may, under a by-law of an adjoining municipality, whether a city, town, village or township, exercise the like powers within the adjoining municipality as it may under this Act within its own municipality, upon such terms as may be agreed upon; and the corporation of the adjoining municipality may either require to be paid a sum in gross, or annually, for such privilege or may pay a sum in gross or annually therefor. 46 V. c. 21, s. 9. 11. In case a gas company or any unincorporated firm or person has laid down main pipes for the supply of gas in or through any of the streets, squares or public places of a of an existing municipality the corporation shall not, without the consent of such company, firm or person first had and obtained, nor otherwise than upon payment to such company of such compensation as may be agreed upon, lay down any main pipe for the supply of gas within six feet of such companies' main pipes, or if it be impracticable to cut drains for such other main pipes at a greater distance, then as nearly six feet as the circumstances of the case will admit. This section is subject to any antecedent agreement between the company and municipal corporation. 46 V. c. 21, s. 12. Rev. Stat. c. 164, ss. 83-93 incorporated herewith. Rev. Stat. c. 192, ss. 38-45 incorpor 12. The sections numbered from 83 to 93, both inclusive, of The Act respecting Joint Stock Companies for supplying Cities, Towns and Villages with Gas and Water, are hereby incorporated with this Act as if the same were repeated herein, with the substitution of "corporation" for "company' wherever "company" occurs in the said sections. 46 V. c. 21, s. 10. of 13. The sections numbered from 38 to 45, both inclusive, The Municipal Water-works Act, are also hereby ated herewith. incorporated with this Act as if the same were repeated herein, with the substitution of "gas or other" for "water" where "water" occurs in the said sections, except in the fourteenth line of section 43 where "gas or other light or heat" shall be substituted for the said word "water." 46 V. c. 21, s. 11. Rights conferred by special Acts preserved. 14. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to diminish the rights of any company under any special Act, or of any unincorporated owners or owner of existing gas works for the supply of gas to any municipality. 46 V. c. 21, s. 13. CHAPTER 192. An Act to provide for the construction of Municipal Waterworks. CIPALITY, s. 28. SALE OF PROPERTY, s. 29. MONEY BORROWED TO BE A CHARGE Number and qualification, s. 39. Not to be interested in contracts, Council may assume work, s. 42. Oaths of office and records of pro- Rates to be paid over to Munici- OF MINOR WATER WORKS, S. 46. RENTING HYDRANTS, s. 47. CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS ON PETI TION OF ELECTORS, ss. 48-50. RESTRICTION AS TO CONTRACTS, s. 30. ACT TO BE READ WITH MUNICIPAL LIABILITY OF PERSONS WORKS, S. 31. DAMAGING ACTS, s. 51. HE ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Municipal Water-work's Short title. Act" 45 V. c. 25, s. 1. may construct 2. The corporation of every township, city, town or incor- Corporations porated village shall have power to construct, build, purchase, of Cities, etc., improve, extend, hold, maintain, manage and conduct water- water works. works, and all buildings, materials, machinery and appurtenances thereto belonging, in the municipality and in the neighbourhood thereof as hereinafter provided. 50 V. c. 29, s. 48. 45 V. c. 25, s. 2; 3. The corporation shall have power to employ engineers, Powers. surveyors and such other persons, and to rent, with such conditions, covenants and stipulations as the corporation shall deem requisite or necessary, or purchase, at the option of the |