INCORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF STRONG

BY-LAW # 2011-002

BEING a By-Law to impose an interest charge expressed as a percentage per month for non payment of tax arrears.

WHEREAS THE MUNICIPAL ACT, 2001 S.O. 2001, CHAPTER 24 SECTION 345 (3), provides for the Treasurer to add to the amount of all taxes due and unpaid, interest at the rate of one-half of one percent per month or fraction thereof from the 31st day of December in the year in which the taxes were levied until the taxes are paid provided that the Council may increase such rate to a rate not exceeding one and one quarter percent per month, and

WHEREAS the Council deems it advisable to enact such a By-Law,

, The Council of the Corporation of the Township of Strong (hereinafter called the Corporation) enacts as follows:

1. That the Treasurer be authorized to add to the amount of all taxes due and unpaid, interest at the rate of one and one quarter percent per month for each month or fraction thereof from the 31st day of December in the year in which the taxes were levied until the taxes are paid.

2. That no interest charge added to the arrears of taxes shall be compounded.

3. That any interest charge on the arrears of taxes imposed by any previous By-Law shall cease to have effect on the day the interest charge imposed by this By-Law comes into effect.

4. That this By-Law shall come into force on the day it receives third reading and is finally passed.

Read a First, Second time, this 11^th day of January 2011on a Motion by: Jason Cottrell and Seconded by: J. D. Newstead,

Read a Third time and finally passed in Council on a Motion by: Merlyn Snow

Seconded by: J.D. Newstead this 25^th day of January 2011 and the Seal of the Corporation affixed thereto.

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MAYOR, Christine Ellis

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CLERK , Linda Maurer

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