APPENDIX B: Unofficial Redlined Consolidation of Bylaw 2537

WATER SUPPLY LOCAL SERVICE AREA ESTABLISHMENT BYLAW NO. 1, 1997

Consolidated for Public Convenience (This bylaw is for reference purposes only)

ORIGINALLY ADOPTED NOVEMBER 12, 1997 (Consolidated with Amending Bylaw 3372, 4541)

For reference to original bylaws or further details, please contact the Capital Regional District, Legislative Services Department, 625 Fisgard St., PO Box 1000, Victoria BC V8W 2S6 T: 250.360.3127, F: 250.360.3130, Email: legserv@crd.bc.ca, Web: www.crd.bc.ca

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CAPITAL REGIONAL DISTRICT

BYLAW NO. 2537

A BYLAW TO ESTABLISH A WATER SUPPLY LOCAL SERVICE IN THE REGIONAL DISTRICT EXCEPT LANGFORD ELECTORAL AREA, THE GULF ISLANDS AND THE DISTRICT OF HIGHLANDS

WHEREAS

A. Section 2 of the Capital Region Water Supply and Sooke Hills Protection Act, S.B.C. Chap. 5 (the "Act") requires the Capital Regional District, on or before a date specified by Regulation, to adopt for the Water Supply Local Service established under subsection (1) of that Act, a bylaw that meets all the requirements for a bylaw under section 806(1) and (2) of the Municipal Act, and includes all or part of each of the initial participating areas;

B. The approval of the Minister of Municipal Affairs to the bylaw is required under section 2(3) of the Act;

C. Section 807(1)(b) and (2) of the Municipal Act requiring assent of the electors or consent on their behalf, does not apply to this bylaw;

D. This bylaw is deemed to be a Service Establishment Bylaw under the Municipal Act, and Part 24 of the Municipal Act applies to the service established under this bylaw, except where the Act and the Regulations under it prevail.

NOW, THEREFORE, the Regional Board of the Capital Regional District in open meeting assembled enacts as follows:

Local Service

1. A water supply local service is established in the participating areas. The service established and operated includes acquiring, supplying, and distributing drinking water from any source or sources for the use of the inhabitants of the Capital Regional District for all purposes, and without limiting the foregoing, includes: a) providing high-quality water for current and future users of the water supply service; b) conserving the water supply and managing the water supply area’s environment in cooperation with local governments, first nations, the government, and the public; c) managing, acquiring and disposing of land, facilities, and equipment including leasing, maintenance, construction, deactivation, and rehabilitation of roads, drainage structures, bridges, facilities, and other real and personal property associated with the service; d) managing plant and animal invasive species and other biosecurity risks to source water quality, and engaging in wildlife management activities for those species posing a risk to water quality; e) erection, construction, operation, and maintenance of monitoring, communication, conveyance, treatment, scientific, wildfire, wildlife, and security infrastructure and works; f) engaging in forest and ecological management activities and treatments that aid in managing forest fuels, maintaining or improving, forest health, forest resilience, biodiversity, or wildlife habitat, including the disposal of logs or other by-products resulting from these activities; g) engaging in surveillance and security including patrolling by ground and air; and h) engaging in wildfire suppression and wildfire management activities.

(Bylaw 4541)

Boundaries

2. The boundaries of the water supply local service area are contiguous with the boundaries of the participating areas listed in section 3.

Participating Areas

3. The following are the participating areas in the local service established by this bylaw:

• City of Victoria
• District of Oak Bay
• District of Saanich
• Township of Esquimalt
• District of Central Saanich
• Town of Sidney
• District of North Saanich
• Town of View Royal
• City of Colwood
• City of Langford
• District of Metchosin
• District of Sooke
• District of Highlands
• Juan de Fuca Electoral Area

(Bylaw 3372)

Cost Recovery

4. The annual costs for the water supply local service, net of grants and other revenues, shall be recovered by one or more of the following: a) by property value taxes imposed in accordance with Division 2 of Part 11 of the Local Government Act; b) by the imposition of a parcel tax imposed under sections 386 and 388 of the Local Government Act; and c) by the imposition of fees and other charges that may be fixed by separate bylaw; and d) by revenues received by way of agreement, enterprise, gift, grant, or otherwise;

(Bylaw 4541)

Maximum Requisition

5. The maximum amount that may be requisitioned under section 339(1)(e) of the Local Government Act for the annual cost of the local service will be NIL.

Citation

6. This Bylaw may be cited as "Water Supply Local Service Area Establishment Bylaw No. 1, 1997".

Geoff Young, Chairperson Carmen Thiel, Secretary

FILED WITH THE INSPECTOR OF MUNICIPALITIES THIS 14th DAY OF November 1997