County responsible for sanitary sewage
76. (1) The County shall have the sole responsibility for the collection and disposal of all sewage including the financing thereof, except as provided for in subsection (7), in the County and all of the provisions of any general Act relating to the collection and disposal of such sewage and the financing thereof by a municipal corporation or a local board thereof and all of the provisions of any special Act relating to the collection and disposal of such sewage and the financing thereof, by an area municipality or a local board thereof including the Local Improvement Act apply with necessary modifications to the County, except the power to establish a public utilities commission. No area municipality to collect sanitary sewage (2) No area municipality shall have or exercise any powers under any Act for the collection and disposal of sewage and financing thereof, except as provided in subsections (7) and (9). Vesting of sanitary sewage facilities (3) All sewage works, sewer systems and treatment works, including buildings, structures, plant, machinery, equipment, devices, intakes and outfalls or outlets, or other works designed for the interception, collection, settling, treating, dispersing, disposing or discharging of sewage, except as provided in subsection (7), and all real and personal property of any nature whatsoever used solely or primarily for the purpose of the collection and disposal of such sewage in the County by any area municipality is vested in the County on the 1st day of January, 1975, and no compensation or damages shall be payable to any area municipality in respect thereof. County liability (4) The County shall pay to the corporation of any area municipality before the due date all amounts of principal and interest becoming due upon any outstanding debt of such area municipality in respect of the property assumed by the County under subsection (3), but nothing in this subsection requires the County to pay that portion of the amounts of principal and interest that under the Local Improvement Act is payable as the owners’ share of the local improvement work. Default (5) If the County fails to make any payment as required by subsection (4), the area municipality may charge the County interest at the rate of 15 per cent per year thereon, or such lower rate as the council of the area municipality determines, from such date until payment is made. Agreements (6) With respect to any agreements entered into or matters commenced by any municipality or local board thereof in the County respecting the interception, collecting, settling, treating, dispersing, disposing or discharging of sewage, including the financing thereof, except as provided for in subsection (7), the County Council shall stand in the place and stead of such municipality or local board for all purposes of any such agreement or matter. Land drainage (7) The County shall be responsible for undertaking the land drainage system including storm sewers with respect to county roads and any surrounding lands which naturally drain into such land drainage system and may undertake a land drainage program including storm sewers in any part of the County as the County Council deems necessary and the area municipalities shall be responsible for all other land drainage systems, including storm sewers, within their respective boundaries. Assumption of area municipal land drainage systems (8) Where the County undertakes a program provided for in subsection (7), the County may assume all or any portion of the land drainage system, including storm sewers, of an area municipality, without compensation, and subsections (4) and (5) shall apply thereto, with necessary modifications. Idem (9) The County is entitled to enter into agreements with any person, area municipality or local board thereof with respect to any of the matters provided for in this Part, and in such event the person, area municipality or local board thereof has authority to enter into such agreements. R.S.O. 1990, c. C.42, s. 76. PART X   FINANCES 77. Repealed: 1997, c. 5, s. 65 (1).