Legislative Calendar
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Apr 01, 2024 | Day on which, if a municipality is not providing policing and law enforcement, it shall be considered a "contributing area" for the purposes of the Police Act. | [66.2(1) PA] |
Apr 01, 2024 | Interest rates for refunds of tax overpayments, refund of municipal tax sale money and on taxes in arrear or delinquent are set January 1, April 1, July 1 and October 1. Circulars provided by Ministry of Municipal Affairs. | [239 CC; 654(4), 668(2) LGA; 245(1)(b) CC; 246(1)(b) CC; 1,2 MTR; IRR] |
Apr 10, 2024 | Regional Districts must send to the minister charged with the administration of the Taxation (Rural Area) Act requisitions in respect of each service starting amount required during the year in respect of each treaty first nation participating area on or before April 10. | [257(4) LGA] |
Apr 10, 2024 | Regional Districts must send an invoice to taxing treaty first nation on or before April 10 if fees, charges and other amounts for works or services provided are owed in relation to the treaty lands of a taxing treaty first nation and not paid on or before December 31 of the previous year. | [258(6) LGA] |
Apr 10, 2024 | Regional Districts must send requisitions to each municipality in respect of each service during the year on or before April 10. | [385(1), 387(1) LGA] |
Apr 10, 2024 | On or before April 10 in each year, the designated regional district officer must deliver to the surveyor of taxes a requisition of funds in respect of each service that states the amount required during the year from each electoral participating area, and the officer's certification. | [387(1) LGA] |
Apr 12, 2024 | Last day for the assessment authority to provide free of charge to regional Hospital District Boards information setting out the current year net taxable value of all land and improvements in each member municipality, the treaty lands of each taxing treaty First Nation and the other rural area, in the district, on both the completed and revised assessment rolls, for the purpose of requisitioning and raising funds under the Hospital District Act. In the case of the North West Regional Hospital District, in addition to the information provided above, the authority must provide free of charge the net taxable value of all land and improvements in Nisg?a'a Lands. | [66 (3) (4) AA] |
Apr 15, 2024 | Where a municipality is collecting taxes for a regional transit commission, it shall on or before the 15th day of each calendar month, pay to British Columbia Transit all of those taxes collected during the preceding calendar month. | [17 BCTR] |
Apr 15, 2024 | On or before April 15 in each year, the assessment authority must forward to the tax collector of every municipality in British Columbia and to the Surveyor of Taxes a copy of the bylaw of the authority imposing the taxes under this Act. On receipt of a copy of the bylaw, the tax collector of each municipality or the Surveyor of Taxes, as the case may be, must have the taxes levied placed on the tax roll. | [20 AAA] |
Apr 19, 2024 | Last day for Regional Hospital Districts to (1) send to each municipality a requsition statement the amount required of that member municipality; and (2) in the case of each member of the district that is not a city, district, town, village or treaty lands of a taxing treaty first nation, transmit to the minister responsible for the FAA a requisition stating the amount required of improvement districts and rural areas in the district. Submit copies of the requisition to the improvement districts and rural areas. | [25(1) & 25(3) HDA] |
Apr 26, 2024 | Last date by which a municipal council must publish a notice in a newspaper regarding an unclaimed surplus from tax sale. | [254 CC; 659(5) LGA] |
Apr 30, 2024 | For wastewater discharges to ground and water for which the contributory population is 10,000 persons or more, a local government discharger, on receiving notice from a director, must prepare and submit a report as specified in the Regulation, before May 1 of each year. | [EMA; 66(1), (2) and (3) MWR] |
Apr 30, 2024 | Last day for Regional Hospital Districts to notify the minister in writing of the total of the amounts being requisitioned and the uniform rates to be levied throughout the district. | [25(4) HDA] |
Apr 30, 2024 | Last day for the assessment authority to forward to each taxing treaty first nation a requisition for the amount determined for the treaty first nation by applying the approved rates to net taxable value of all land and improvements in the treaty lands, and must include a statement of those rates. | [20 (4.1) AAA] |
Apr 30, 2024 | Monthly reports to: Canada Revenue Agency for GST/PST; Statistics Canada for building permits; Health Authority for water quality testing. |
AA |
Assessment Act |
HOGA |
Home Owner Grant Act |
AAA |
Assessment Authority Act |
HOGR |
Home Owner Grant Regulation |
AAR |
Assessment Act Regulation |
IRR |
Interest Rates Under Various Statutes Regulation |
ALCA |
Agricultural Land Commission Act |
LA |
Library Act |
AAPR |
Assessment Averaging and Phasing Regulation |
LECFA |
Local Elections Campaign Financing Act |
ALRR |
Agricultural Land Reserve, ;Use, Subdivision and Procedures Regulation |
LTDA |
Land Tax Deferment Act |
BCTA |
BC Transit Act |
MEVA |
Municipalities Enabling and Validating (No. 4) |
BCTR |
BC Transit Regulation |
MFAA |
Municipal Finance Authority Act |
CC |
Community Charter |
MHA |
Manufactured Home Act |
CIFSA |
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Act |
MHTA |
Manufactured Home Tax Act |
CIFSR |
Cremation, Interment and Funeral Services Regulation |
MTR |
Municipal Tax Regulation |
ESC19A |
Economic Stablization (COVID-19) Act |
MWR |
Municipal Wastewater Regulation |
EMA |
Environmental Management Act |
PA |
Police Act |
FDA |
Financial Disclosure Act |
PTR |
Police Tax Regulation |
FIA |
Financial Information Act |
SA |
School Act |
FWA |
Fireworks Act |
SCBCTAA |
South Coast BC Transportation
Authority Act |
HDA |
Hospital District Act |
STRR |
School Tax Remitting Regulation |
HDAR |
Hospital District Act Regulation |
WCA |
Weed Control Act |