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THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
BY-LAW 82- W7
A By-law to provide for the notification of resident
electors of the location of the polling place.
Whereas The Municipal Elections Act, SO 1977, Section 46, Subsections 7 and 8
as amended, provides as follows:
7. In municipalities having more than 5,000 electors, the Clerk
shall advise each elector of the location of the polling
place in which that elector is to vote; .
(a) In the case of a resident elector, by mailing or causing to
be delivered to the elector a notice of the location of such
polling place; and
(b) In the case of a non-resident elector, by mailing to the
elector a notice of the location of such polling place.
8. Notwithstanding clause (a) of subsection 7, the Council of a
municipality having more than 5,000 electors may, by By-law
passed not later than the first day of September of an election
year, provide that the Clerk shall advise each resident elector
of the location of the polling place at which that elector is
to vote by mailing or causing to be delivered to the
address of the elector anoti ce of the 1 coati on of such po 11 i ng
place, which notjce shall be directed to all the electors at
that address.
And Whereas the municipality of the Town of Newcastle has more than 5,000
electors;
NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE enacts
as follows:
1. The Town Clerk of the Corporati on of the Town of Newcastle be
and the same is hereby authorized to advise each resident elector
of the location of the polling place at which the elector is to
vote by mailing or causing to be delivered to the address of
the elector, a notice of the location of such polling place,
which notice shall be directed to all electors at that address.
By-law read a first and second time this 28 day of July 1982.
By-law read a third time and finally passed this 28 day of July 1982.
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