An old or divided municipality’s council may act on certain land and municipal-service matters only with transition board approval or board guidelines, and the board may issue those guidelines.
1. During 2000, section 107 of the Municipal Act does not prevent the council of an old municipality or divided municipality from, (a) doing any act under the Planning Act or the Condominium Act with respect to land in the old municipality or divided municipality; or (b) doing any act under any other Act, including the purchase, sale or other disposition of land, the provision of municipal services and entering into any agreement with respect to municipal services, if the act is necessary for or directly relates to an act of the council of the old or divided municipality under the Planning Act or the Condominium Act with respect to land in the old or divided municipality. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 1. 2. (1) The council of an old municipality or divided municipality shall not exercise any of the powers or perform any of the duties the old or divided municipality is authorized to do under section 1 unless it is done with the approval of the transition board or in accordance with guidelines issued by the transition board under section 3. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 2 (1). (2) For greater clarity, subsection (1) does not apply with respect to the actions of a person or body acting under authority delegated to them by the council of the old municipality or divided municipality. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 2 (2). 3. The transition board may issue guidelines with respect to the matters referred to in section 1. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 3. 4. (1) An act of the council of an old municipality or divided municipality authorized under section 1 is deemed, for all purposes, to have been done, (a) if the act receives the approval of the transition board after the act is done, on the day the approval is granted by the transition board; (b) if the act receives the approval of the transition board before the act is done, on the day the act is actually done; (c) if the act is done in accordance with guidelines issued before the act is done, on the day the act is actually done; (d) if the act is done in accordance with guidelines issued after the act is done, on the day the guidelines are issued by the transition board. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 4 (1). (2) If more than one of clauses (1) (a) to (d) apply to an act, the act is deemed to have been done on the earliest day. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 4 (2). (3) If the transition board does not make a decision with respect to a request for an approval of an act of the council of an old municipality or divided municipality or for the issuance of guidelines authorizing an act of the council of an old or divided municipality on or before the fourteenth day following the day the transition board receives the request, the transition board is deemed to have given its approval of the act on the fifteenth day following receipt of the request. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 4 (3). (4) Subsection (3) does not apply if, on the day the transition board receives the request, it has already issued guidelines which prevent the council of the old or divided municipality from doing that act. O. Reg. 592/00, s. 4 (4).