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MUNICIPALITY OF BAYHAM
BY-LAW NO. 2019-001
A BY-LAW TO PROVIDE FOR AN INTERIM TAX LEVY
WHEREAS Section 317 of The Municipal Act, 2001, Chapter 25, S.O. 2001, as
amended, provides for an interim levy for 2017 on the assessment of property in the
municipality rateable for local municipal purposes, subject to certain restrictions;
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Bayham deems it
advisable and expedient that such a levy should be made;
THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Municipality of Bayham enacts as
follows:
1. That for the year 2019, the interim tax levying amounts to be levied, raised and
collected on all real property taxable within the residential, farmland, pipeline,
multi-residential, commercial and industrial classes, and liable to pay the same
according to the last revised assessment roll, shall be fifty (50) percent (%) of the
total amount of annualised taxes for municipal and school purposes levied on the
property for the previous year, that is for the year 2018.
2. The said interim tax levying amounts shall be due and payable in two instalments
at the Municipality of Bayham Office at 56169 Heritage Line, Straffordville, on or
before the following dates:
FIRST INSTALMENT February 28, 2019
SECOND INSTALMENT May 24, 2019
Notice of such taxes due shall be sent by first class mail by the Tax Collector to
those persons or firms liable for the payment of taxes.
5. That a charge as a penalty of one and one-quarter per cent on the amount of any
outstanding taxes levied in 2019 shall be made on the first day of each calendar
month thereafter in which default continues, until December 31St 2019, and any
such additional amount shall be levied and collected in the same manner as if it
had been originally imposed with and formed part of such levy.
6. That interest of one and one-quarter per cent on the amount of any taxes due
and unpaid after December 31, 2019, shall be charged on the first day of each
calendar month thereafter in which the default continues.
7. That taxes may be levied, in accordance with the provisions of this by-law on the
assessment of property that is added to the assessment roll after this by-law is
passed.
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8. That the provisions of the Municipal Act with respect to the levy of the yearly
rates and the collection of taxes apply mutatis mutandis to the levy of rates and
collection of taxes under this by-law.
9. That this by-law shall become effective as of the 1st day of January 2019.
READ A FIRST AND SECOND TIME this 3rd day of January 2019.
READ A THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED this 3rd day of January 2019.
MAYOR