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Appointment

of valuers.

Valuation of tenements to be made.

Powers of valnors.

Penalties,

ORDINANCE No. 21 OF 1885.

Municipal Rates.

The term public institution means the City Hall and also any tenement or portion of a tenement used or maintained wholly for any of the following

purposes:

Art, Burial,

Charitable relief,

Education,

Literature,

Medical relief of the sick,

Religious Worship,

Science,

and not for gain or pecuniary profit.

Valuation.

2. The Governor in Council may, from time to time, appoint one or more valuers for the purposes of this Ordinance, and may allow them such remuneration as he thinks fit.

3. The valuers so appointed shall, in each year, before such day as the Governor in Council directs, make a valuation of the tenements in the Colony, or of such part thereof as the Governor in Council directs.

4. Any valuer may require the owner or occupier of any tenement to furnish him with the particulars specified in form A in the schedule hereto; and

May, from time to time, enter into and upon any tenement for the purpose of making a valuation thereof; and

May call upon such owner or occupier to exhibit to him all receipts for rent, rent- books, accounts, or other documents whatever connected with the rent or value of such tenement.

If the owner or occupier refuse to allow him to enter any tenement, he may give to such owner or occupier written notice requiring permission to enter; and after twenty- four hours from the delivery of such notice may, at any time during the day time, enter into and upon the said tenement and inspect the same, and, if necessary, may use force to effect his entry, doing no more damage than is necessary for the purpose.

5. If any owner or occupier of a tenement refuses or neglects to f said particulars within one week after being required to do so;

Or knowingly furnishes false or incorrect particulars;

furnish the afore-

Or refuses to exhibit to the valuers any receipt for rent or book or other docu- ment relevant to the valuation ;

Or prevents, hinders, or obstructs any valuer from entering or inspecting any tenement after delivery of such notice and after the lapse of twenty-four hours;

He shall, on conviction in a summary way, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.