CHAPTER 33. An Act to amend The Municipal Hail Insurance Act. (Assented to April 8, 1926.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Municipal Hail Insur- Short title ance Act Amendment Act, 1926." amended 2. The Municipal Hail Insurance Act, being chapter 174 Section 2 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended by striking out paragraph (h) of section 2 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(h) 'Minister' shall mean the Minister of Municipal "Minister" Affairs; "(hh) 'Owner' shall mean any person who is registered "Owner" under The Land Titles Act as the owner of a free hold estate in possession of land; “(hhh) 'Purchaser' shall mean any person who has pur- “Purchaser” chased or otherwise acquired land within the district whether he has purchased or otherwise acquired the land direct from the owner thereof or from another purchaser, and has not become the owner thereof." 3. Section 24 of the said Act is amended by striking out Section 24 subsections (1) and (2) and substituting therefor the fol- amended lowing: "(1) No insurance shall be given upon crops upon (a) unpatented land; or (b) land which has been subdivided into blocks and "Provided, however, that insurance may be given upon crops grown on Soldier Settlement Board lands whether patented or unpatented if the said Board gives written consent to the taxation of the said lands upon the application hereinafter provided for: "Provided further that insurance may be given on crops grown on land subdivided for the purpose of obtaining a division thereof into parcels more convenient for carrying out agricultural or pastoral operations. Section 24 further amended Section 26 amended Section 29 amended Section 31 amended Section 33 amended New section 34 Section 36 amended "(2) The purchaser in possession of any land upon the crops of which insurance may be given, or if there is no such purchaser, the owner thereof, may apply for insurance in writing in the prescribed form to the secretary-treasurer of the municipal district in which the land described in the application is situated." 4. Section 24 is further amended by striking out paragraph (a) of subsection (4) thereof, and substituting therefor the following: "(a) the name and address of the applicant;" 5. Section 26 of the said Act is amended by striking out the words "the owner or occupant of the land on which such crop was growing" and substituting therefor the words "the applicant for insurance." 6. Section 29 of the said Act is amended as to subsection (2) thereof by adding thereto the following proviso: "Provided, however, that where no part of the insured crop has sustained a loss of five per cent, the cost of inspection may, at the discretion of the Board, be charged to the claimant and the amount of such cost shall be added to the rates imposed under this Act." 7. Section 31 of the said Act is amended by striking out paragraph (a) and by relettering paragraphs (b) and (c) as (a) and (b). 8. Section 33 of the said Act is amended by adding as subsection (2a) thereof immediately after subsection (2) the following: "(2a) The Board may fix different rates for different parts or areas of the hail insurance district." 9. Section 34 is hereby struck out and the following substituted therefor: "34. On or before the fifteenth day of October in each year the Board shall send to the secretary-treasurer of each municipal district a statement of the parcels of land crop on which has been insured, and the amount of the tax attributable to each such parcel." 10. Section 36 of the said Act is amended by striking out subsection (1) thereof and substituting therefor the following: "(1) The secretary-treasurer shall enter upon his tax roll opposite the description of each parcel of land set out in the statement, the amount of the tax attributable thereto, and such tax shall be a municipal tax and recoverable in the same manner as municipal taxes, and the persons liable to pay the same shall be subject to the same penalties for nonpayment as are provided for the non-payment of municipal taxes." amended 11. Section 37 of the said Act is amended as to subsec- Section 37 tion (1) thereof by striking out the word "owner" where it occurs in the third line, and substituting therefor the word "lessor." into 12. This Act shall come into force on the day upon comingf Act which it is assented to. |