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THE CORPORATION OF THE COUNTY OF ESSEX <br /> <br />BY-LAW # 02-2000 <br /> <br />A BY-LAW TO EXPAND THE ESSEX COUNTY LIBRARY <br />SERVICE TO INCLUDE ALL ESSEX COUNTY <br />MUNICIPALITIES <br /> <br />WHEREAS by By-law Number 1596, passed on the 15th day of December, 1965, the <br />Corporation of the County of Essex did establish a County Library Service for <br />municipalities in the County of Essex; <br /> <br />AND WHEREAS By-law Number 3309-97 re-established the Essex County Library <br />Board on January 1, 1998, in accordance with the Order of the Minister of Municipal <br />Affairs and Housing, dated July 4th, 1997; <br /> <br />AND WHEREAS the Essex County Library Board, as re-established on January <br />1st, 1998, replaced the Essex County Library Board as it existed on December <br />31~t, 1997, for all purposes; <br /> <br />AND WHEREAS municipalities within the County of Essex have been restructured; <br /> <br />AND WHEREAS in accordance with the Order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and <br />Housing, dated November 19th, 1997 the library boards of the former Lakeshore <br />Township and the former Town of Leamington were dissolved on December 31~, 1998; <br /> <br />AND WHEREAS, in accordance with the Order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and <br />Housing, dated November 19th, 1997, all assets and liabilities of the library boards of the <br />former Lakeshore Township and former Town of Leamington are deemed to be assets <br />and liabilities of the new Town of Lakeshore and new Municipality of Leamington; <br /> <br />NOW THERFORE BE IT ENACTED THAT in accordance with the Order of the <br />Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, dated November 19th, 1997, the Essex <br />County Library Board, effective January 1st, 1999, shall serve the following areas: <br /> <br />The Town of Amherstburg, the Town of Essex, the Town of LaSalle, the <br />Town of Tecumseh, the Town of Lakeshore, the Town of Kingsville and <br />the Municipality of Leamington. <br /> <br />BE IT ENACTED that in accordance with the Public Libraries Act, R.S.O., 1990, <br />c.P.44, subsection 26(1), the annual estimates of the Essex County Library Board, <br />as adopted by Essex County Council, shall be included in the amount required by <br />the County for general county purposes under subsection 162(1) of the Municipal <br />Act, R.S.O., 1990, c.M.45, and shall be apportioned among municipalities <br />forming the County on the basis of weighted assessment. <br /> <br /> <br />