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Part 6 — Finance and Property Division 1 Finance

162 Payment by council of a municipality

Current to 2025-12-11 · Official PDF

(1) A municipality, in each year, shall pay to the board of each
school division in which the area of the municipality is included the
amount of the requisition transmitted by the board of the school
division under this Part.
(2) In the same manner and at the same time as it levies the
amount of the basic requisition made under section 160, a
municipality shall levy on the assessable property in the part of the
separate school district or school division that is within the
municipality
(a) the amount of any other requisition referred to in section
175
, and
(b) the amount required for the purposes of the Alberta School
Foundation Fund under section 167.
(3) A municipality shall pay to a board or the Alberta School
Foundation Fund the amount required under this Part in equal
quarterly instalments on the last banking day of each of the months
of March, June, September and December in that year.
(4) If a municipality has not received the requisition of the board
of a school division or the mill rates under section 167 by March
15, the municipality shall make a payment on account to that board
or the Alberta School Foundation Fund, as the case may be, based
on the requisitions or payments of the previous year.
(5) If a municipality fails to pay the amount required from time to
time under this Part as required by this Part, the amount becomes a
debt due, owing and payable to the school division or the
Government, as the case may be.
(6) With the permission of the Minister, a debt referred to in
subsection (5) may be recovered by an action in debt.