MUNICIPAL BOARDS ACT Sanitary Boards changed to Municipal Boards · 2022 Revised Edition
20. Returns may be required for purposes of valuation
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
In order to enable the Board to assess the annual value of any houses, lands, tenements or buildings liable to assessment, the Chairman may require the owner or occupier thereof to furnish returns of the rent thereof and to give all such information as may be necessary for the preparation of the assessment list or otherwise for the purpose of such assessment, and for the like purpose the Chairman or any person appointed in writing by him for that purpose may at any time between sunrise and sunset enter and inspect and if necessary survey the same:
Chairman
“Chairman” means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of the office of Chairman of the Municipal Board, and includes a Deputy Chairman;
Provided that no entry shall be made under this section into any dwelling-house in actual occupation, unless with the consent of the occupier, without 24 hours previous notice in writing to such occupier specifying the hour as near as may be of such intended entry.
house
“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office and shop, also schools and any other buildings in which persons are employed;
Any person who refuses or fails to furnish such return or to give such information as aforesaid for the space of one week from the day on which he shall have been required to do so, and whoever knowingly makes a false or incorrect return or gives false or incorrect information, and any person who hinders, obstructs or prevents the Chairman or any person appointed by him as aforesaid from entering, inspecting or surveying any such houses, lands, buildings or tenements, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $3,000.
Terms defined in s 2
Chairman
Defined · s 2“Chairman” means the officer for the time being lawfully performing the duties of the office of Chairman of the Municipal Board, and includes a Deputy Chairman;
house
Defined · s 2“house” includes dwelling-house, warehouse, office and shop, also schools and any other buildings in which persons are employed;
occupier
Defined · s 2“occupier” means the person in occupation of the premises in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person, but does not include a lodger;
owner
Defined · s 2“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the land or premises in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the same if such land or premises were let to a tenant; and in any case in which such person cannot be found or makes default includes also the occupier, if any, of such land or premises;