Public hearing: alternate advertising bylaw

Leduc County is proposing that our website become the primary source of information for bylaws, resolutions, meetings, public hearings and other items required under section 606 of the Municipal Government Act (MGA).

Currently, we must advertise these items in a newspaper or other publication circulating in the area or mail a notice to every residence in the affected area. Section 606(1) allows a municipality to identify an alternate method of communicating this information via a bylaw.

Leduc County is proposing that its website be the primary method used to communicate the information required under section 606 of the Act, in addition to any other method deemed appropriate by administration.

View the official notice of public hearing

OUTCOME OF PUBLIC HEARING

 The proposed bylaw was adopted by Council at the public hearing on March 8, 2022. View the bylaw.

PETITIONING

Section 232 of the MGA states that this bylaw may be petitioned to Council. This means that the electors of Leduc County have an opportunity to submit a petition to require the bylaw or resolution be put to a public plebiscite. The general requirements for a petition are contained in section 224 of the MGA. 

The signatures on a petition for a new bylaw must be collected no more than 60 days before the date on which the petition is filed with Leduc County’s CAO (the County Manager). Petitions requesting an amendment or repeal of a bylaw or resolution must be filed with the CAO within 60 days of the bylaw or resolution being passed; this bylaw passed on Tuesday, March 8, 2022.

Petitions, other than petitions for local improvement bylaws, must be signed by electors of Leduc County equal in number to at least 10 per cent of the population. According to the 2021 federal census, the permanent population of Leduc County is 14,416. This means a petition needs to contain at least 1,441 signatures.

To learn more about petitioning a bylaw to Council, visit our bylaws web page.