[39] Bill 20 As Amended by Standing Committee (PDF)
Bill PR20 2008
An Act respecting the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus
Preamble
The board of directors of the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus (the Lebovic Campus) has applied for special legislation to exempt certain land from taxation for municipal and school purposes, other than local improvement rates, beginning in 2008, while the land is used for a specified purpose. The applicant represents that the Lebovic Campus was incorporated under the Corporations Act by letters patent dated July 21, 1948 as the Jewish Community Centre of Toronto, that it has obtained several supplementary letters patent, including supplementary letters patent changing its name, and the most recent supplementary letters patent, in which it changed its name to its current name, is dated October 6, 2006. The applicant represents that it is a registered charity within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada). The applicant also represents that the Lebovic Campus has a freehold interest in the land and will be operating a not-for-profit community campus offering a variety of community services on the land.
It is appropriate to grant the application.
Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:
Definition
1. In
this Act,
"specified
property" means the land, as defined in the Assessment Act, comprising
approximately 50 acres on the west side of Bathurst Street, north of Rutherford
Road, and municipally known as 9600 Bathurst Street in the City of Vaughan and
as may be more particularly described in a by-law passed under section 2.
Definition
1. In this Act,
"specified property" means the land, as defined in the Assessment Act, comprising approximately 50 acres on the west side of Bathurst Street, north of Rutherford Road, being composed of Part of Lots 17 and 18, Concession 2, Vaughan, more particularly identified as P.I.N.s 03341-2301(LT), 03341-2302(LT) and 03341-2303(LT) within the records of the Land Registry Office, York Region (No. 65).
Tax
exemption by-law
2. The council of the City of Vaughan
may pass a by-law exempting the specified property from taxes for municipal
purposes, other than local improvement rates, beginning January 1, 2008, if,
(a) the specified property is occupied and used
solely for the purposes of the Lebovic Campus;
(b) the Lebovic Campus is the registered owner
of the specified property; and
(c) the Lebovic Campus is a registered charity
within the meaning of the Income
Tax Act (Canada).
Tax exemption by-law
2. The council of the City of Vaughan may pass a by-law exempting the specified property, or any portion of it, from taxes for municipal purposes, other than local improvement rates, beginning January 1, 2008, if,
(a) the specified property, or the portion of it that is subject to the by-law, is occupied and used solely for the purposes of the Lebovic Campus;
(b) the Lebovic Campus is the registered owner of the specified property, or the portion of it that is subject to the by-law; and
(c) the Lebovic Campus is a registered charity within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada).
Property exempt from school taxes
3. (1) If
the council of the City of Vaughan passes a by-law under section 2, the
specified property the specified property, or the portion of it that
is subject to the by-law, is
also exempt from taxes for school purposes for so long as the by-law remains in
effect.
Chargeback
(2) Section 353 (taxes collected on behalf of other bodies) of the Municipal Act, 2001 applies, with necessary modifications, to taxes cancelled by subsection (1).
Commencement
4. This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Short title
5. The short title of this Act is the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Jewish Community Campus Act, 2008.
This reprint of the Bill is marked to indicate the changes that were made in Committee.
The changes are indicated by underlines for new text and a strikethrough for deleted text.
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Explanatory Note
The purpose of the Bill is set out in the Preamble.