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C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec
Section 544
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544. (Repealed).
544. Every local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to regulate, upon such conditions as may be considered proper, circuses, theatres or other public exhibitions, and subject them to a duty or tax which must not exceed $50 for each performance provided, however, that no person or partnership may be obliged to pay more than $200 in the same year.
Every tax imposed by a by-law made under this paragraph, if it is not paid on demand, may be levied with costs by way of the seizure and sale of the debtor’s movable property. Articles 1014 to 1018 shall apply to such seizure and sale; however, for the application of article 1018, the words “amounts which appear on the collection roll” shall mean “tax claimed by the municipality”.
(2) to regulate public dance-halls in the territory of the municipality.
No permit or license may be granted, under any Act whatever, for keeping a public dance-hall in the territory of the municipality in opposition to a by-law passed under this paragraph;
(3) (paragraph repealed);
(4) to prohibit persons bathing or washing themselves in public waters, or in the open air near public roads or squares, or to regulate the manner in which bathing or washing in such places may be done;
(4.1) to regulate public beaches and public or private swimming-pools for safety purposes, to compel every person operating a public beach or swimming-pool to obtain an annual license and to fix the cost of the license;
(5) to prohibit wearing of bathing suits in public places elsewhere than on beaches, on the site of lakes, rivers or watercourses and any other place used as public baths;
(6) to prohibit the wearing of immodest clothes or wearing apparel on the roads and in public places in the territory of the municipality;
(7) to prohibit any building or part of a building, situated within such distance as the by-law may prescribe from any church or other building used habitually for purposes of public worship, being used as an inn, a restaurant, a liquor shop, a bowling-alley, or a place to which the public is admitted for the purpose of dancing or engaging in any noisy game or amusement;
(8) to license, regulate or prohibit pin-ball machines, billiards, pool, pigeon-hole tables, bowling alleys, bagatelle boards, shooting galleries, electronic games and electronic game arcades;
(9) to determine where, and the kind of building in which, serving of mares may be carried on in the territory of the municipality.
544. Every local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to regulate, upon such conditions as may be considered proper, circuses, theatres or other public exhibitions, and subject them to a duty or tax which must not exceed $50 for each performance provided, however, that no person, firm or corporation may be obliged to pay more than $200 in the same year.
Every tax imposed by a by-law made under this paragraph, if it is not paid on demand, may be levied with costs by way of the seizure and sale of the debtor’s movable property. Articles 1014 to 1018 shall apply to such seizure and sale; however, for the application of article 1018, the words “amounts which appear on the collection roll” shall mean “tax claimed by the municipality”.
(2) to regulate public dance-halls in the territory of the municipality.
No permit or license may be granted, under any Act whatever, for keeping a public dance-hall in the territory of the municipality in opposition to a by-law passed under this paragraph;
(3) (paragraph repealed);
(4) to prohibit persons bathing or washing themselves in public waters, or in the open air near public roads or squares, or to regulate the manner in which bathing or washing in such places may be done;
(4.1) to regulate public beaches and public or private swimming-pools for safety purposes, to compel every person operating a public beach or swimming-pool to obtain an annual license and to fix the cost of the license;
(5) to prohibit wearing of bathing suits in public places elsewhere than on beaches, on the site of lakes, rivers or watercourses and any other place used as public baths;
(6) to prohibit the wearing of immodest clothes or wearing apparel on the roads and in public places in the territory of the municipality;
(7) to prohibit any building or part of a building, situated whithin such distance as the by-law may prescribe from any church or other building used habitually for purposes of public worship, being used as an inn, a restaurant, a liquor shop, a bowling-alley, or a place to which the public is admitted for the purpose of dancing or engaging in any noisy game or amusement;
(8) to license, regulate or prohibit pin-ball machines, billiards, pool, pigeon-hole tables, bowling alleys, bagatelle boards, shooting galleries, electronic games and electronic game arcades;
(9) to determine where, and the kind of building in which, serving of mares may be carried on in the territory of the municipality.
544. Every local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to regulate, upon such conditions as may be considered proper, circuses, theatres or other public exhibitions, and subject them to a duty or tax which must not exceed $50 for each performance provided, however, that no person, firm or corporation may be obliged to pay more than $200 in the same year.
Every tax imposed by a by-law made under this paragraph, if it is not paid on demand, may be levied with costs by way of the seizure and sale of the debtor’s movable property. Articles 1014 to 1018 shall apply to such seizure and sale; however, for the application of article 1018, the words “amounts which appear on the collection roll” shall mean “tax claimed by the municipality”.
(2) to regulate public dance-halls in the territory of the municipality.
No permit or license may be granted, under any Act whatever, for keeping a public dance-hall in the territory of the municipality in opposition to a by-law passed under this paragraph;
(3) (paragraph repealed);
(4) to prohibit persons bathing or washing themselves in public waters, or in the open air near public roads or squares, or to regulate the manner in which bathing or washing in such places may be done;
(5) to prohibit wearing of bathing suits in public places elsewhere than on beaches, on the site of lakes, rivers or watercourses and any other place used as public baths;
(6) to prohibit the wearing of immodest clothes or wearing apparel on the roads and in public places in the territory of the municipality;
(7) to prohibit any building or part of a building, situated whithin such distance as the by-law may prescribe from any church or other building used habitually for purposes of public worship, being used as an inn, a restaurant, a liquor shop, a bowling-alley, or a place to which the public is admitted for the purpose of dancing or engaging in any noisy game or amusement;
(8) to license, regulate or prohibit pin-ball machines, billiards, pool, pigeon-hole tables, bowling alleys, bagatelle boards, shooting galleries, electronic games and electronic game arcades;
(9) to determine where, and the kind of building in which, serving of mares may be carried on in the territory of the municipality.
544. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to regulate, upon such conditions as may be considered proper, circuses, theatres or other public exhibitions, and subject them to a duty or tax which must not exceed $50 for each performance provided, however, that no person, firm or corporation may be obliged to pay more than $200 in the same year.
Every tax imposed by a by-law made under this paragraph, if it is not paid on demand, may be levied with costs by way of the seizure and sale of the debtor’s movable property. Articles 1014 to 1018 shall apply to such seizure and sale; however, for the application of article 1018, the words “amounts which appear on the collection roll” shall mean “tax claimed by the corporation”.
(2) to regulate public dance-halls in the municipality.
No permit or license may be granted, under any Act whatever, for keeping a public dance-hall within a municipality in opposition to a by-law passed under this paragraph;
(3) (paragraph repealed);
(4) to prohibit persons bathing or washing themselves in public waters, or in the open air near public roads or squares, or to regulate the manner in which bathing or washing in such places may be done;
(5) to prohibit wearing of bathing suits in public places elsewhere than on beaches, on the site of lakes, rivers or watercourses and any other place used as public baths;
(6) to prohibit the wearing of immodest clothes or wearing apparel on the roads and in public places of the municipality;
(7) to prohibit any building or part of a building, situated whithin such distance as the by-law may prescribe from any church or other building used habitually for purposes of public worship, being used as an inn, a restaurant, a liquor shop, a bowling-alley, or a place to which the public is admitted for the purpose of dancing or engaging in any noisy game or amusement;
(8) to license, regulate or prohibit pin-ball machines, billiards, pool, pigeon-hole tables, bowling alleys, bagatelle boards, shooting galleries, electronic games and electronic game arcades;
(9) to determine where, and the kind of building in which, serving of mares may be carried on within the limits of the municipality.
544. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:
(1) to prohibit circuses, theatres, or other public exhibitions from being held; to regulate them upon such conditions as may be deemed proper, and subject them to a duty or tax which must not exceed $50 for each performance provided, however, that no person, firm or corporation may be obliged to pay more than $200 in the same year.
Every tax imposed by a by-law made under this article, if it is not paid on demand, may be levied upon all movables and effects, even upon those which are ordinarily exempt from seizure, found in the possession of any of the persons connected with such circus, theatre or exhibition, under a warrant of seizure signed by the mayor or by a justice of the peace, and executory forthwith, without other preliminary formality;
(2) to regulate or prohibit public dance-halls in the municipality.
No permit or license may be granted, under any Act whatever, for keeping a public dance-hall within a municipality in opposition to a by-law passed under this paragraph;
(3) to prohibit, on Sundays and holydays of obligation, horse races and all other horse exercises, upon any racecourse or place whatever;
(4) to prohibit persons bathing or washing themselves in public waters, or in the open air near public roads or squares, or to regulate the manner in which bathing or washing in such places may be done;
(5) to prohibit wearing of bathing suits in public places elsewhere than on beaches, on the site of lakes, rivers or watercourses and any other place used as public baths;
(6) to prohibit the wearing of immodest clothes or wearing apparel on the roads and in public places of the municipality;
(7) to prohibit any building or part of a building, situated whithin such distance as the by-law may prescribe from any church or other building used habitually for purposes of public worship, being used as an inn, a restaurant, a liquor shop, a bowling-alley, or a place to which the public is admitted for the purpose of dancing or engaging in any noisy game or amusement;
(8) to license, regulate or prohibit pin-ball machines, billiards, pool, pidgeon-hole tables, bowling alleys, bagatelle boards, shooting galleries, electronic games and electronic game arcades;
(9) to determine where, and the kind of building in which, serving of mares may be carried on within the limits of the municipality.
