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C-19 - Cities and Towns Act

Section 411
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411. The council may make by-laws:
(1)  to authorize the officers or employees of the municipality to visit and examine, at any reasonable time, all movable and immovable property, as also the interior or exterior of any house, building or edifice whatsoever, to ascertain if the by-laws of the council are executed in respect thereof, to verify any information or determine any fact necessary to the exercise by the municipality of the power to issue a permit or a notice of compliance of an application and to grant an authorization or any other form of permission, conferred on the municipality by an Act or regulation, and to compel the owners or occupants of such property, buildings and edifices to admit such officers or employees;
(2)  (paragraph repealed);
(3)  to authorize, at the time of an inspection, the seizure of any article offered for sale or sold or delivered, in contravention of the by-laws passed in virtue of this Act or of the charter.
The officers or employees who carry out an inspection shall, on request, produce identification and a certificate issued by the municipality attesting their authority.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 425; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1979, c. 51, s. 260; 1992, c. 61, s. 118; 2000, c. 19, s. 3; 2001, c. 35, s. 27.
411. The council may make by-laws:
(1)  To authorize the officers or employees of the municipality to visit and examine, at any reasonable time, all moveable and immoveable property, as also the interior or exterior of any house, building or edifice whatsoever, to ascertain if the by-laws of the council are executed in respect thereof, and to compel the owners or occupants of such property, buildings and edifices to admit such officers or employees;
(2)  (Paragraph repealed);
(3)  To authorize, at the time of an inspection, the seizure of any article offered for sale or sold or delivered, in contravention of the by-laws passed in virtue of this Act or of the charter.
The officers or employees who carry out an inspection shall, on request, produce identification and a certificate issued by the municipality attesting their authority.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 425; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1979, c. 51, s. 260; 1992, c. 61, s. 118; 2000, c. 19, s. 3.
411. The council may make by-laws:
(1)  To authorize the officers or employees of the municipality to visit and examine all moveable and immoveable property, as also the interior or exterior of any house, building or edifice whatsoever, to ascertain if the by-laws of the council are executed in respect thereof, and to compel the owners or occupants of such property, buildings and edifices to admit such officers or employees;
(2)  (Paragraph repealed);
(3)  To authorize, at the time of an inspection, the seizure of any article offered for sale or sold or delivered, in contravention of the by-laws passed in virtue of this Act or of the charter.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 425; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1979, c. 51, s. 260; 1992, c. 61, s. 118.
411. The council may make by-laws:
(1)  To authorize the officers or employees of the municipality to visit and examine all moveable and immoveable property, as also the interior or exterior of any house, building or edifice whatsoever, to ascertain if the by-laws of the council are executed in respect thereof, and to compel the owners or occupants of such property, buildings and edifices to admit such officers or employees;
(2)  (Paragraph repealed);
(3)  To authorize the confiscation of any article offered for sale or sold or delivered, in contravention of the by-laws passed in virtue of this act or of the charter.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 425; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1979, c. 51, s. 260.
411. The council may make by-laws:
(1)  To authorize the officers or employees of the municipality to visit and examine all moveable and immoveable property, as also the interior or exterior of any house, building or edifice whatsoever, to ascertain if the by-laws of the council are executed in respect thereof, and to compel the owners or occupants of such property, buildings and edifices to admit such officers or employees;
(2)  To provide that no immoveable newly erected or altered or the destination or use of which has been changed shall be occupied before a certificate is issued by municipal authority establishing that the newly erected or altered immoveable, or the new destination or use of the immoveable, as the case may be, is in conformity with the by-laws of the municipal corporation; to establish the procedure respecting the application for and issue of such certificate;
(3)  To authorize the confiscation of any article offered for sale or sold or delivered, in contravention of the by-laws passed in virtue of this act or of the charter.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 425; 1968, c. 55, s. 5.
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