CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 77

PART XIII

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Inspection of documents.

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s.283

135. - (1) The minutes of proceedings of the Council

shall be open to the inspection of any registered elector for

the Municipality on payment of a fee not exceeding one dollar

and any such elector may make a copy thereof or an extract

therefrom.

(2) Any such elector as aforesaid may inspect and make

a copy of or extract from an order for the payment of money

made by the Council.

(3) The accounts of the Council and of the municipal

treasurer shall be open to the inspection of any member of the

Council and any such member may make a copy thereof or an

extract therefrom.

(4) The balance sheet and financial statement of the

Council and any report by an auditor on the accounts of the

Council shall be open to the inspection of any such elector as

aforesaid, and any such elector may make a copy thereof or an

extract therefrom and, subject to the exigencies of the business

of the Council, copies thereof shall be delivered to any such

elector on payment of such reasonable sum as the Council may

determine.

(5) A document äirected by this section to be open to

inspection shall be so open at all reasonable hours, and, except

where otherwise expressly provided, without payment.

(6) If a person having the custody of any document in

this section mentioned,

(a) obstructs any person entitled to inspect the

document or to make a copy thereof or extract

therefrom in inspecting the document or making a

copy or extract; or

(b) without reasonable cause wilfully refuses or neglects

on demand to give copies or extracts to any person

entitled to obtain copies or extracts,

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

exceeding one hundred dollars.

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