Definitions
1.In this Act, “Board” means the Ontario Municipal Board; (“Commission”) “bridge” includes a viaduct, culvert, subway and embankment, and a pavement on a bridge; (“pont”) “clerk” means the clerk of the municipality and includes any officer or person authorized or required by the council to perform any duty that under this Act is to be or may be performed by the clerk; (“secrétaire”) “constructing” and “construction” include reconstructing and reconstruction, wholly or in part, when the lifetime of the work has expired; (“construction”) “corporation” means the corporation of a municipality; (“municipalité”) “corporation’s portion of the cost” means that part or proportion of the cost of a work that is not to be specially assessed, but is payable by the corporation; (“partie du coût à la charge de la municipalité”) “council” means the council of the corporation of a municipality; (“conseil”) “county” includes a district; (“comté”) “court of revision” means a court of revision constituted under this Act; (“commission de révision”) “curbing” includes a curbing of any material in or along a street, whether constructed in connection with or apart from the laying down of a pavement or sidewalk, or with or without a projection for the purpose of a gutter; (“bordure”) “engineer” includes an officer or person authorized or required by the council to perform any duty that under this Act is to be or may be performed by an engineer; (“ingénieur”) “frontage”, when used in reference to a lot abutting directly on a work, means that side or limit of the lot that abuts directly on the work; (“longueur de façade”) “lifetime”, as applied or applicable to a work, means the lifetime of the work as estimated by the engineer or, in case of an appeal, as finally determined by the court of revision or the judge, as the case may be; (“durée de vie”) “lot” means a subdivision or a parcel of land that by the Assessment Act is required to be separately assessed, and “lots” means more than one lot as so defined; (“lot”, “lots”) “municipality” includes a union of townships, a municipality composed of more than one township, a township, a city, a town and a village, but not a county; (“municipalité”) “owner” and “owners” mean respectively the person or persons appearing by the last revised assessment roll of the municipality to be the owner or owners of land, and, except in the case of a township, includes a tenant for years, the unexpired term of whose tenancy including any renewal thereof to which the tenant is entitled extends for not less than the period during which the special assessment for the work is to be made, if by the terms of the tenancy the tenant would be liable for the payment of the special assessment for the work, but does not include a person who is, or is assessed as, owner where there is a tenant for years of the land who is an owner within the meaning of this definition; (“propriétaire”, “propriétaires”) “owners’ portion of the cost” means that part or portion of the cost of a work that is to be specially assessed upon the land abutting directly on the work or upon land immediately benefited by the work; (“partie du coût à la charge des propriétaires”) “pavement” includes any description of pavement or roadway; (“chaussée”) “paving” includes macadamizing, planking and the laying down or construction of any description of pavement or roadway and the construction of a curbing; (“pavage”) “published” means published in a daily or weekly newspaper which, in the opinion of the clerk, has such circulation within the municipality as to provide reasonable notice to those affected thereby, and “publication” has a corresponding meaning; (“publié”, “publication”) “sewer” includes a common sewer and a drain and two or more sewers connected as a system of sewers; (“égout”) “sidewalk” includes a footway and a street crossing; (“trottoir”) “specially assessed” means specially rated for or charged with part of the cost of a work; (“assujetti à un impôt extraordinaire”, “imposition extraordinaire”) “street” includes a lane, alley, park, square, public drive and public place, or a part of any of them; (“rue”) “value” means the assessed value according to the last revised assessment roll of the municipality; (“valeur”) “watermain” includes two or more watermains connected in a system of waterworks and hydrants; (“conduite d’eau”) “work” means a work or service that may be undertaken as a local improvement; (“ouvrage”) “work undertaken” means a work that is undertaken as a local improvement. (“ouvrage entrepris”, “ouvrage à entreprendre”) R.S.O. 1990, c. L.26, s. 1. Works that may be Undertaken as Local Improvements