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Volume 45, No. 23

B.C. Reg. 345/2002

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

December 17, 2002

B.C. Reg. 345/2002, deposited December 11, 2002, pursuant to the LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT [Section 346]. Order in Council 1080/2002, approved and ordered December 11, 2002.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the attached Greater Victoria Community Port Improvements Exemption Regulation is made. — G. ABBOTT, Minister of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

GREATER VICTORIA COMMUNITY PORT IMPROVEMENTS

EXEMPTION REGULATION

Greater Victoria community port

(1) The Greater Victoria Harbour is prescribed as a community port for the purposes of

section 346 of the

Local Government Act in relation to the lands and improvements referred to in this regulation.

(2) The lands to which this regulation applies are the following lands of the Greater Victoria Harbour lying within the Victoria District:

PID: 025-434-047

Lot A, Plan VIP73551;

PID: 017-797-438

That part of

Sec. 31, Beckley Farm, Victoria District, Plan 4 shown outlined in red on Plan 799 O.S. except parts in Plans 1845R, 26729, and VIP 73680;

PID: 025-392-247

Lot A, Plan VIP73551;

PID: 002-012-804

Lot 1 of Lots 1352A, 1366, 1367, 1368 and 1369, Victoria City Plan 28160;

PID: 009-422-455

Lot 1293 except

part included in Plan 21724;

PID: 025-392-816

Lot 1, Plan VIP73553;

PID: 011-521-481

Lot 1, Plan 46965;

PID: 025-392-573

Lot A, Plan VIP73552;

PID: 009-214-071

Part of bed of Victoria Harbour fronting Lots 5 & 6, Block 70, Plan 219 shown coloured in red on Plan DD75157G.

Improvements exempt from taxation

(1) Land referred to in

section 1 (2) that is used as a park, and any related improvements on that land, are exempted from property tax levies under any Act.

(2) The following improvements on lands referred to in

section 1 (2) are exempted from property tax levies under any Act:

(

a) docks, wharves, rafts, piers, piles, breakwaters, retaining walls and jetties;

(

b) canals and drydocks;

(

c) fuel pumps;

(

d) monuments;

(

e) fences;

(

f) port navigational aids, including floats, unenclosed lighthouses, unenclosed communications towers and range lights;

(

g) things referred to in

section 1 (2) (

k) of the Assessment

Act ;

(

h) lights and light standards;

(

i) reservoirs, storage tanks, and fish rearing ponds;

(

j) fish passes, fish ladders, fish ways or other fish protective devices that provide for the safe and adequate passage of fish over, around or through an obstacle;

(

k) roads, sidewalks, aircraft runways and other paved areas;

(

l) railway tracks;

(

m) tunnels, bridges and dams;

(

n) water and sewer mains.

(3) As an exception, an exemption under this regulation does not apply to improvements held or occupied by a person other than the operator of the community port.

(4) For greater certainty, an exemption under this regulation does not apply to

(

a) a structure or work that is a building designed primarily for the shelter of people, living things, plant or personal property,

(

b) any paved areas or other improvements used by the operator's employees for the purposes of parking, or

(

c) an outdoor theatre.

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