A Candidate must be a resident of the municipality or a non-resident owner or tenant of land in the municipality or the spouse of such non-resident owner or tenant;
- a Canadian citizen and at least 18 years old;
- not legally prohibited from voting; and not disqualified by any legislation from holding municipal office.
- You must pay a fee of $100 for a Councillor and $200 for Mayor. Persons Disqualified – Council
MEA, s.17, s.90, s.91 Municipal Act, s.258, s.423, s.424
The following persons are disqualified from being elected or from holding office as a member of council:
- Except in accordance with MEA, s.30 (Leave of Absence), an employee of the municipality or a person who is not an employee of the municipality but who is the clerk, treasurer, integrity commissioner, auditor general, ombudsman or the lobbyist registrar referred to in s.223.11 of the Municipal Act, 2001, or a meeting investigator referred to in s.239.2(1) of the municipality or a person who is not an employee of the municipality but who holds any administrative position of the municipality
- A judge of any court
- A Senator, a Member of Parliament, or a Member of Provincial Parliament
- A person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment in a penal or correctional institution (this does not include a person serving house arrest or a person awaiting sentencing)
- A corporation • A person acting as executor or trustee or in any other representative capacity except as a voting proxy
- A person convicted of a corrupt practice under the MEA, or of an offence under the Criminal Code (Canada) in connection with an act or omission that relates to an election to which this Act applies, then the person is ineligible to be nominated for, or elected or appointed to, any office until the next two regular elections have taken place after the election to which the offence relates
- A person disqualified for violations of financial requirements or violations of requirements for filing financial information as per s.92(1) and s.88.23(2) of the MEA • S.423(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that a member of a municipal council who knowingly votes to authorize the borrowing of any amount larger than permitted under s.407 is disqualified from holding any municipal office for two years
- S.424(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that if a council applies any money raised for a special purpose or collected for a sinking or retirement fund to pay current or other expenditures other than those permitted by this Act, each member who votes for the application is disqualified from any municipal office for two years
- S. 424(3) of the Municipal Act, 2001 provides that if a council neglects in any year to levy the amount required to be raised for a sinking or retirement fund, each member of the council is disqualified from holding any municipal office for two years, unless the member shows efforts to procure the levying of the amount
- S.9(1) of the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act provides that a member may be disqualified from holding municipal office for a period of up to seven years if found to have contravened the Act
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