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Part 3 — Special Municipal Powers and Limits on Municipal Powers Division 1 Expropriation

63 Revising bylaws

Current to 2026-05-14 · Official PDF

(1) A council of a municipality may, by bylaw, revise any of its
bylaws or any one or more provisions of them in accordance with
this section.
(2) A bylaw under this section may

RSA 2000

(a) omit and provide for the re peal of a bylaw or a provision of
a bylaw that is inoperative, obsolete, expired, spent or
otherwise ineffective;
(b) omit, without providing fo r its repeal, a bylaw or a provision
of a bylaw that is of a transitional nature or that refers only
to a particular place, person or thing or that has no general
application throughout the municipality;
(c) combine 2 or more bylaws into one bylaw, divide a bylaw
into 2 or more bylaws, move provisions from one bylaw to
another and create a bylaw from provisions of one or more
other bylaws;
(d) alter the citation and title of a bylaw and the numbering and
arrangement of its provisions, and add, change or omit a
note, heading, title, marginal note, diagram or example to a
bylaw;
(e) omit the preamble an d long title of a bylaw;
(f) omit forms or other material contained in a bylaw that can
more conveniently be contained in a resolution, and add
authority for the forms or other material to be prescribed by
resolution;
(g) make changes, without mate rially affecting the bylaw in
principle or substance,
(i) to correct clerical, t echnical, grammatical or
typographical errors in a bylaw,
(ii) to bring out more clearly what is considered to be the
meaning of a bylaw, or
(iii) to improve the expression of the law.
(3) The title of a revised bylaw must include the words "revised
bylaw".
(4) A bylaw under this section must not be given first reading until
after the chief administrative officer has certified in writing that the
proposed revisions were prepared in accordance with this section.
RSA 2000 cM-26 s63;2017 c13 s1(5)
64 Repealed 2017 c13 s1(6).

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public use land acquisition, 644
purpose of planning and
development, 617
regulations, 618.4, 693.1, 694
requirement to pass land use bylaw,
640(1)
stop order (See stop order)
subdivision plans not compliant,
approvals, 654(2)
time
alternative time period, 640.2(1)
to apply after previous refusal,
640(5)
land use districts. See districts
lease of capital property
borrowing definition, 241(a.1)(ii)
leave for councillors, parental and
maternity, 144.1
levies
bylaws, 649
community revitalization levy (See
community revitalization levy)
off-site levy (See off-site levy)
redevelopment levy (See area
redevelopment plans)
liability of board members
ARB members, 470(6), 484
business improvement area board
members, 52
SDAB members, 628.1
liability of councillors, 249, 275, 535
defamation actions, 535(3)
enforcement, 249(4), 275(3)
good faith standard, 535(2)
jointly and severally liable for
unauthorized expenditures,
249(3), 275(2)
offences under the Act, 569
unauthorized expenditures,
borrowings, or grants,
174(1)(k), 249(1)-(3), 275
liability of municipal and provincial
assessors, 284.1(3), 284.2(3)
liability of municipalities, 527.2-534
discretionary exercise, 529
failure to repair roads, public places
and works, 532
actions by persons exercising
lawful powers, 532(5)
failure to perform duty, 532(2)
knew or should have known,
532(6)
loss or damage beyond others'
losses, 532(4)
notice of event to municipality
required, 532(9)-(10)
private roads or places, 532(3)
reasonable state of repair for area
of municipality, 532(1)
reasonable steps taken, 532(7)
traffic control device destruction
or removal, 532(8)
inspections and maintenance
damage, 530
non-negligence actions, 528
notice to municipality
of damage or injury from snow on
roads, 531(2)-(3)
of damage or injury re roads,
public places and public
works, 532(9)-(10)
private roads or places, 532(3)
public places, 532
public utility non-negligence actions,
528
public works, 532
public works affecting land, 534
appeals, 534(13)
compensation, 534(3)-(6)
costs, 534(12), 534(15)(b)
disputes to Tribunal, 534(10)-(15)
injurious affection, definition,
534(1)
notice to public of right to
compensation, 534(2)
regulations, 534(15)
roads, 531-534
injury or damage due to failure to
repair, 532
non-negligence actions, 528
private road not under
municipality, 532(3)
snow on, with gross negligence,
531