Part 2 — Bylaws Division 1 General Jurisdiction
8 Powers under bylaws
may in a bylaw passed under this Division
(a) regulate or prohibit;
(b) deal with any development, activity, industry, business or
thing in different ways, divide each of them into classes and
deal with each class in different ways;
(c) provide for a system of licences, permits or approvals,
including any or all of the following:
(i) establishing fees for li cences, permits and approvals,
including fees for licences, permits and approvals that
may be in the nature of a reasonable tax for the activity
authorized or for the purpose of raising revenue;
(ii) establishing fees for licen ces, permits and approvals that
are higher for persons or businesses who do not reside or
maintain a place of business in the municipality;
(iii) prohibiting any development, activity, industry, business
or thing until a licence, permit or approval has been
granted;
(iv) providing that terms and conditions may be imposed on
any licence, permit or approval, the nature of the terms
and conditions and who may impose them;
(v) setting out the conditions that must be met before a
licence, permit or approval is granted or renewed, the
nature of the conditions and who may impose them;
(vi) providing for the duration of licences, permits and
approvals and their suspension or cancellation for failure
to comply with a term or condition or the bylaw or for
any other reason specified in the bylaw;
(c.1) establish and specify the fees, rates, fares, tariffs or charges
that may be charged for the hire of taxis or limousines;
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(d) provide for an appeal, the body that is to decide the appeal
and related matters.
(2) Subject to section 7.1, without restricting section 7, 2 or more
municipalities may, by bylaw adopted by the council of each
participating municipality, establish an intermunicipal business
licensing program.
(3) The Minister may make regulations respecting intermunicipal
business licensing programs.
RSA 2000 cM-26 s8;2022 c5 s4;2022 c16 s9(4)
May, 2026
assessed person, 304-305
access to assessment records or
summaries, 299-301.1
duties, 304(3)
housing accommodations, 304(4)
notice of amended assessment to,
305(1)
notice of change of address from,
304(3)
notice of new assessment to,
305(2)
person liable to pay tax, 331
coal machinery and equipment,
304(1)(g)
community aggregate payment levy,
409.2
community revitalization levy, 381.3
designated manufactured home,
304(1)(j)-(k)
drainage works under lease, licence
or permit, 304(1)(d)
drilling oil, gas, coal, brine or salt
wells or combination or by-
product under lease, licence or
permit, 304(1)(f)
grazing land, 290(3)
irrigation works under lease, licence
or permit, 304(1)(d)
land, 304(1)(a)
land and improvements, 304(1)(b)
lease, licence or permit from Crown
or municipality, 304(1)(c)
manufactured home communities,
304(1)(j)-(k), 304(6)-(7)
mining minerals under lease, licence
or permit, 304(1)(f)
oil sands machinery and equipment,
304(1)(g)
pipeline pumping or compressing,
304(1)(f)
railway land under lease, licence or
permit, 304(1)(d)-(d.1)
regulations for determination of
assessed person, 322(1)(e.2)(ii)
assessment classes
assessment roll, 303(f)
assigning classes, 297, 297.1
business tax assessments and taxes,
374(2), 377(3)-(4)
bylaw for sub-classes, 297(2)-(3.5),
297.1
bylaws as continuous, 325.1
classes and sub-classes
class 1 residential, 297, 297.1,
322(1)(g.02)-(g.03)
class 2 non-residential, 297,
354(3.1)
class 2 other non-residential
property, 297, 354(3.1)
class 2 small business property,
297, 354(3.1)
class 2 vacant non-residential
property, 297
class 3 farm land, 297
class 4 machinery and equipment,
297, 354(3.1)
more than one assigned, 297(2)-
(3)
transitional, 297.1(1)
definitions of classes
farm land, 297(4)(a)
machinery and equipment,
297(4)(a.1)
non-residential, 297(4)(b)
residential, 297(4)(c)
small business property, 297(3.3)-
(3.5)
school requisitions, 359.2(2)-(4)
tax rates (See tax rates)
transitional, 297.1(1)
assessment notices, 308-312
address unknown, 310(2)
amended, 305, 308.1(2), 309, 312
assessed person for assessed
property (See assessed person
for assessed property)
assessment roll corrections, 305-306
bylaw on electronic
communications, 308.1
certification of date of sending,
310(4)-(5)
changes in tax status, 305(3)
combined assessment and tax
notices, 308(4)
complaints, 309