CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 53

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PART VIII

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tgage

Title to mort, and rectification of register.

s.208

(c) in the case of a transmission of a mortgage

otherwise than as aforesaid, of satisfactory

evidence of the transmission,

and on payment of such sum, if any, not exceeding five

dollars, as the Council may determine, the clerk of the

Council shall cause an entry to be made in the register

of the date of the transfer or transmission, and of the name

and description of the parson becoming entitled thereunder

to the mortgage.

(4) Any change of name or address on the part of a

person antitled to a mortgage shall forthwith. be notified

to the clerk of the Council, who, on being satisfied thereof,

shall alter the register accordingly.

(5) The register shall be open at all reasonable

hours to public inspection without payment.

(6) If any person,

(a) having the custody of the register, refuses

inspection of the register to any person; or (b) being required under this section to make an

entry in the register, refuses or wilfully

neglects so to do,

he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not

exceeding, in the case of an offence under paragraph (a)

of this sub-section, one hundred dollars, or, in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) of this sub-section, five

hundred dollars.

89. (1) The Council shall be entitled to treat as

exclusively entitled to a mortgage, in relation to which

entries have been duly made in the register, the person

appearing by the latest of those entries to be entitled

thereto.

(2) If the name of any person is, without sufficient

cause, entered in or omitted from the register, or default

is made or unnecessary delay takes place in making any

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