To amend by-law number 447

CANADA

PROVINCE OF QUEBEC

MUNICIPALITY OF SHAWVILLE

BY-LAW NUMBER 447-1

 TO AMEND BY-LAW NUMBER 447

MUNICIPAL REGULATIONS CONCERNING

THE IMPOSITION OF A TAX

FOR THE FUNDING 911 EMERGENCY CENTERS

Regulation decreeing the imposition of a tax for the financing of 9-1-1 emergency centers.

The council decrees the following:

1.  For the purposes of this Regulation, the following means:

  1. “Client” a person who purchases a telephone service for a purpose other than to make new supply as a telecommunications service provider.
  • “Telephone service” telecommunications service that meets the following two conditions:
  1. It tracks the 9-1-1 to join directly or indirectly a 9-1-1 emergency center providing service in Québec;
  • It is  provided in the territory of the local municipality, by a telecommunications service provider

When a telecommunications service provider reserves one of its’ telephone services for its own use, it is deemed, for this service a customer referred to in paragraph 1 of the first paragraph.

For the purposes of sub-paragraph of paragraph 2 of the first paragraph, the telecommunication service is deemed to be supplied in the territory of the local municipality where the telephone number assigned to the customer using the service has a Québec area code.

Articles 2 and including section 5 of By-law 447-1 are replaced by the following:

  • As of January 1, 2024, $0.52 per month per telephone number will be added to each telephone service fee or in the case of a multiline service other than a Centrex service, per outgoing access line.
  • The customer must pay the fee for each month in which he receives, at any time, a telephone service.
  • This Regulation shall enter into force on the date of the publication of a notice to that effect that the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Land Occupancy publishes it in the Gazette officielle du Québec, in accordance with article 2.1 of the by-law governing the 9-1-1 municipal tax (chapter F-21,r 14).
  • The amount of the tax is indexed, on January 1 of each year beginning in 2025, according to the rate corresponding to the annual variation in the all-items average consumer price index for Quebec, excluding alcoholic beverages tobacco products smokers’ articles and recreational cannabis for the last 12 months ending June 30th of the year preceding the year for which the amount of the tax is to indexed.

This amount, thus indexed, is reduced to the nearest cent if it includes a fraction of cent less than $0.005; it is increased the nearest cent of it includes a fraction of a cent equal to or greater than $0.005.

FOR THESE REASONS,

         THEREFORE it was moved by Bill Hobbs, and unanimously adopted that the by-law for the imposition of a tax for the financing of 9-1-1 emergency centres.

By-Law number 447-1 was read at the regular meeting of the Council held on November 14, 2023 and entered into force according to law.

Bill McCleary                                                             Crystal Webb

Mayor                             Director General

CERTIFICATE OF PUBLICATION

     I, the undersigned, residing at Shawville, Quebec, do hereby certify under my oath of office, that I have published the public notice concerning By-Law No. 447-1 by posting one copy thereof, at the places designated by the Council between the hours of two and four o’clock in the afternoon, on the 15th day of November 2023.

     In testimony whereof, I give this certificate of publication on this 15th day of November 15th two thousand and twenty three.

                                                                                Crystal Webb 

                                                                                                Director General