Bill C-70

REGULATIONS

(a) the preservation, control and management of parks;

(b) the protection of flora, soil, waters, fossils, natural features, air quality, and cultural, historical and archaeological resources;

(c) the protection of fauna, the taking of specimens of fauna for scientific or propagation purposes, and the destruction or removal of dangerous or superabundant fauna;

(d) the management and regulation of fishing;

(e) the prevention and remedying of any obstruction or pollution of waterways;

(f) the prevention and extinguishment of fire on park lands or threatening park lands, and requiring persons residing or being in the vicinity of such a fire to report it or to assist in its extinguishment;

(g) the issuance, amendment and termination of leases, licences of occupation and easements or servitudes, and the acceptance of the surrender or resiliation of leases and the relinquishment of licences of occupation and easements or servitudes, of or over public lands

(i) in towns and visitor centres, for the purposes of residence, schools, churches, hospitals, trade, tourism and places of recreation or entertainment,

(ii) in resort subdivisions, for the purpose of residence,

(iii) outside towns, visitor centres and resort subdivisions, for the purposes of schools, churches, hospitals, service stations, tourism and places for the accommodation, recreation or entertainment of visitors to parks, and

(iv) in the town of Banff, for the purpose of the exercise by a local government body of functions entrusted to it under section 36;

(h) the restriction or prohibition of activities and the control of the use of park resources and facilities;

(i) the establishment, operation, maintenance and administration of works and services of a public character, such as water, sewage, electricity, telephone, gas, fire protection, garbage removal and disposal and cemeteries, including the designation, granting and maintenance of plots in cemeteries, and respecting the use of those works and services;

(j) the establishment, maintenance, administration and use of roads, streets, highways, parking areas, sidewalks, streetworks, trails, wharves, docks, bridges and other improvements, and the circumstances under which they must be open or may be closed to public traffic or use;

(k) the control of traffic on roads, streets and highways and elsewhere in parks, including the regulation of the speed, operation and parking of vehicles;

(l) the surveying of public lands, the making of plans of surveyed lands, the delimitation in such plans of the boundaries of towns, visitor centres, resort subdivisions and cemeteries, the designation of surveyed lands as towns, visitor centres, resort subdivisions or cemeteries and the subdividing of lands so designated;

(m) the control of the location, standards, design, materials, construction, maintenance, removal and demolition of buildings, structures, facilities, signs and other improvements and the establishment of zones governing uses of land and buildings;

(n) the control of businesses, trades, occupations, amusements, sports and other activities or undertakings including the places where they may be carried on;

(o) the preservation of public health and the prevention of disease;

(p) the inspection of buildings, structures, facilities and other improvements for the purpose of the enforcement of regulations made under paragraphs (m), (n) and (o);

(q) the abatement and prevention of nuisances;

(r) the determination of fees, rates, rents and other charges for the use of park resources and facilities, the provision of works and services referred to in paragraph (i) and improvements referred to in paragraph (j), and the issuance and amendment of permits, licences and other authorizing instruments pursuant to subsection (3);

(s) public safety, including the control of firearms;

(t) the use, transportation and temporary storage of pesticides and other toxic substances;

(u) the control of domestic animals, including the impounding or destruction of such animals found at large;

(v) the acquisition or disposition of prehistoric and historic objects and reproductions of them and the sale of souvenirs, consumer articles and publications;

(w) the authorization of the use of park lands, and the use or removal of flora and other natural objects, by aboriginal people for traditional spiritual and ceremonial purposes;

(x) the control of access to parks by air;

(y) maximum amounts of fines in respect of contraventions of provisions of the regulations or of permits, licences or other authorizing instruments issued pursuant to the regulations, for the purposes of subsection 25(2); and

(z) the summary removal from a park, by park wardens or enforcement officers, of persons found contravening specified provisions of this Act, the regulations or the Criminal Code, and the exclusion from a park for prescribed periods of those persons or persons convicted of offences under those provisions.

(a) to vary any requirement of the regulations for purposes of public safety or the conservation of natural resources in the park;

(b) to issue, amend, suspend and revoke permits, licences and other authorizations in relation to any matter that is the subject of regulations and to set their terms and conditions; and

(c) to order the taking of any action to counter any threat to public health or to remedy the consequences of any breach of the regulations in the park.

(a) levying taxes on residents of a park, or on rights or interests in land in a park, to be applied to the cost of health and welfare or hospital services supplied to residents of the park;

(b) levying taxes on rights or interests in land in a park, to be applied to the cost of the establishment, maintenance, operation and administration of works and services referred to in paragraph 16(1)(i), to be levied with respect to

(i) all lands in the park, other than land in a park community,

(ii) lands in areas of the park specified by the regulations, or

(iii) lands benefited by those works or services; and

(c) respecting the sale or forfeiture of lands and rights or interests in lands for non-payment of taxes.

(a) establish classes of land, including buildings, structures, improvements and other fixtures;

(b) prescribe the manner of assessing the value of any class of land;

(c) determine the rate to be applied to the assessed value of any class of land in any park, or prescribe the manner of determining that rate;

(d) exempt certain land from taxation in whole or in part;

(e) provide for local improvement taxes applicable to land that benefits from specified improvements; and

(f) make provision for the collection and administration of taxes, including interest on unpaid taxes, and the imposition of penalties for non-payment of taxes, including the forfeiture of lands, leases and licences of occupation.

(a) is a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada, owed by the person by whom the tax is payable and by any other person to whom the land is transferred or the lease or licence of occupation is assigned; and

(b) in the case of a tax payable by the owner, constitutes a charge against the land.

(a) Wood Buffalo National Park;

(b) Wapusk National Park;

(c) Gros Morne National Park;

(d) any park established in the District of Thunder Bay in the Province of Ontario; and

(e) any park established in an area where the continuation of such activities is provided for by an agreement between the Government of Canada and the government of a province respecting the establishment of the park.

(a) specify what are traditional renewable resource harvesting activities;

(b) designate classes of persons authorized to engage in those activities and prescribe the conditions under which they may engage in them;

(c) prohibit the use of renewable resources harvested in parks for other than traditional purposes;

(d) control traditional renewable resource harvesting activities;

(e) authorize the removal and disposal of any equipment or harvested resources left in a park in contravention of the regulations, and provide for the recovery of expenses incurred in their removal and disposal; and

(f) notwithstanding anything in this subsection, authorize the superintendent of a park

(i) to close areas of the park to traditional renewable resource harvesting activities for purposes of park management, public safety or the conservation of natural resources,

(ii) to establish limits on the renewable resources that may be harvested in any period, or to vary any such limits established by the regulations, for purposes of conservation, and

(iii) to prohibit or restrict the use of equipment in the park for the purpose of protecting natural resources.

ENFORCEMENT

(a) any person whom the warden or officer finds committing an offence under this Act; or

(b) any person who, on reasonable grounds, the warden or officer believes has committed or is about to commit an offence under section 27.

(a) enter and search any place and open and examine any package or receptacle in accordance with a warrant issued under subsection (2) at any time during the day or, if so specified in the warrant, during the night; and

(b) seize any thing that the warden or officer believes on reasonable grounds is a thing described in subsection (2).

(a) any thing in relation to which there are reasonable grounds to believe an offence under this Act or the regulations has been committed, or

(b) any thing that there are reasonable grounds to believe will afford evidence with respect to the commission of such an offence,