C-47.1 - Municipal Powers Act

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111. A regional county municipality may operate, alone or with another person, an enterprise that produces electricity from a source of renewable energy. The enterprise may carry on any storage activity that is incidental to its production activities.
In the case of a hydro-electric power plant, the enterprise must be controlled by the regional county municipality. However, if the regional county municipality operates the enterprise with a local municipality or a band council within the meaning of the Indian Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. I-5) or the Naskapi and the Cree-Naskapi Commission Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18), the enterprise may be controlled by one or more of those operators.
If the enterprise is operated jointly under the first paragraph with another municipality or a band council, it need not be operated in the territory of all of those operators.
2005, c. 6, s. 111; 2005, c. 50, s. 116; 2006, c. 31, s. 123; 2010, c. 42, s. 16; 2021, c. 31, s. 103; I.N. 2022-02-01.
111. A regional county municipality may operate, alone or with another person, an enterprise that produces electricity from a source of renewable energy. The enterprise may carry on any storage activity that is incidental to its production activities.
In the case of a hydro-electric power plant, the enterprise must be controlled by the regional county municipality. However, if the regional county municipality operates the enterprise with a local municipality or a band council within the meaning of the Indian Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. I-5) or the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18), the enterprise may be controlled by one or more of those operators.
If the enterprise is operated jointly under the first paragraph with another municipality or a band council, it need not be operated in the territory of all of those operators.
2005, c. 6, s. 111; 2005, c. 50, s. 116; 2006, c. 31, s. 123; 2010, c. 42, s. 16; 2021, c. 31, s. 103.
111. A regional county municipality may operate, alone or with another person, an enterprise that produces electricity at a wind farm or at a hydro-electric power plant.
In the case of a hydro-electric power plant, the enterprise must be controlled by the regional county municipality. However, if the regional county municipality operates the enterprise with a local municipality or a band council within the meaning of the Indian Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. I-5) or the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18), the enterprise may be controlled by one or more of those operators.
If the enterprise is operated jointly under the first paragraph with another municipality or a band council, it need not be operated in the territory of all of those operators.
2005, c. 6, s. 111; 2005, c. 50, s. 116; 2006, c. 31, s. 123; 2010, c. 42, s. 16.
111. A regional county municipality may operate, alone or with another person, an enterprise that produces electricity at a wind farm or at a hydro-electric power plant.
In the case of a hydro-electric power plant, the enterprise must be controlled by the regional county municipality. However, if the regional county municipality operates the enterprise with a local municipality or a band council within the meaning of the Indian Act (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter I-5) or the Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (Statutes of Canada, 1984, chapter 18), the enterprise may be controlled by one or more of those operators.
2005, c. 6, s. 111; 2005, c. 50, s. 116; 2006, c. 31, s. 123.
111. A regional county municipality may form a limited partnership with a private-sector enterprise for the purpose of producing electric power by harnessing wind energy or a hydro-electric power.
The private-sector enterprise must at all times provide at least half of the contribution to the common stock of the partnership, and must be the partnership’s general partner.
2005, c. 6, s. 111; 2005, c. 50, s. 116.