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Clinton News-Record, 1978-05-25, Page 7A special presentation of life memberships was made on May 18th at the regular meeting of the Goshen United Church Women: Evelyn McKinley, left, presented a certificate and pin to Elaine McBride, and Elsie McKinley, right, made a similar presentation to Elizabeth Clarke. (photo by Marjorie Havterl wilding permits may be illegal BY JEFF SEDDON Officials from Huron County's 26 municipalities discovered Friday that they may be illegally charging for building permits. Roman Dzus, county planner, told the Huron County Municipal Officers' Association annual meeting that unless a municipality has passed a bylaw enforcing the Ontario Building Code it has no legal basis to charge for, or issue, building permits. Dzus said the Ontario Building Code Act of 1974, Massed by the provincial government, is the only legislation that can be used to control construction in a munici -- pa ity. Dzus said the Ontario Building Code stipulated that a municipality appoint a chief building official to administer construction inside its boundaries and specified that all buildings conform to -the terms of the code. • The planner said that the code was adopted on a province wide basis as of December 31, 1975 and at that time municipalities were required to pass bylaws to administer and enforce the building code. He said any, municipality not passing the appropriate bylaws at that time could have any of its building permits since then challenged and will probably find they are invalid. Dzus said that municipalities were given the mandate to charge for building permits and control construction by virtue of the planning act in the past but the adoption of the building code in 1975 superseded that authority. He said the planning act was once the legislation governing building permits and the hiring of building inspectors or other building officials that each municipality voluntarily made use of. He said the hiring of building officials is no longer voluntary but lorcanda tory. The planner said municipalities choosing not to enforce the Ontario Building Code may find themselves liable if a new building not meeting the requirements of the Ontario code is faulty or collapses. He said that if a municipality has not carried out its responsibilities to enforce the code it may be held partially responsible for property or personal damages. Bayfield reeve Ed Oddleifson balked at the suggestion that each municipality be required to t a chief building official on its payroll. He said Bayfield, and probably a lot of other smaller municipalities, will have to pay someone to ad- minister the building code and "dammit we can't afford it•' Science Centre Tour Dzus said the building code The annual outing of the recommends municipalities Brucefield-Kippen United hire people familiar with Church Adventurers and construction trade and in- Young Peoples and friends formed with zoning and took plate on Victoria Day. planning regulations but The tour, arranged by Rev. pointed out that it is not an E.S. Stephens, took them for absolute requirement. He the day to the Science Centre said many municipalities in Toronto. No outing would merely make their clerk- be complete without a trip to treasurer the chief building MacDonald's so after a hectic official or share the cost for and tiring day in Toronto the an official with a neighboring group stopped at Stratford for muriicipality. He said the the supper hour. appointment of the official Assisting in the trip were need not cause a municipality Mrs. Beatrice Stoll and Mrs. financial hardship. Ann Walters. The bus was He said the fees charged for driven by Mr. Edison building permits may offset the cost of the building of- ficial. He said a provincial average charge of $6.00 for every $1,000 of construction provides for up to 80 per cent of the wage for the building official. He added that each municipality has the right to determine the permit fees and can set them to either pay the official from the tax dollar and keep the fees relatively low or set them higher and use the money to pay the wage. Stanley township clerk Mel Graham said that his municipality had adopted the building code bylaw and appointed a chief building official and found the move solved many problems for township council. He said council set the fee for building permits and turned the matter over to the building official for administration. "I hate to blow up our building inspector but I think it's the best thing since sliced bread in our township," he said. News from Varna By Mary Chessell The sympathy of the people of this community is extended to Mrs. Broeze and the family of the late Henry Broeze, who passed away early Thursday morning. He was a highly esteemed resident and businessman. Congratulations to 'Tanis Chuter, who received her County Honours Award in 4-H club work at their recent Achievement Day. As the Flowers of Hope Campaign draws to a close, we'd like to inform our readers of a display of out- door furniture produced by employees of ARC Industries at Dashwood, which may be seen at Ron Heimrich's in Zurich. It includes redwood lawn furniture (finished or unfinished), umbrella tables, deck furniture, planters, gate signs, etc. This is ex- ceptionally well -made fur- niture for which they take orders. They also have their bakeshop operating, and they make a large selection of hand-crafted articles which may be seen anytime. People are invited to take tours of their facilities to see the excellent ' training these handicapped people receive, and speakers are available for groups. Paul Consitt has been given the honour of acting as page boy at the County Council meeting on `Friday. Many people from this area were in Clinton High School last Wednesday to hear the school choirs and bands of central Huron present an excellent concert. The large senior choir of Centennial School at Brucefield was dressed in cardigans in the school colours of green and gold. Both of our choirs took part in the concert. Brian Chessell is a member of the Clinton High School Band. Varna businessman dies Henry Broeze The former owner and operator of the Varna Feed Mill, Henry Broeze died in Clinton Public Hospital on May 18. He was in his 66th year. . Mr. Broeze was a well- known member of the Varna community through his business, which he ran from 1957 until 1977. He was also an active member of the Exeter Bethel Reformed Church. Mr. Broeze is survived by his wife Rita, daughters Dianne Windisch of Waterloo, Joanne of London, and son, John of Sackville, New Brunswick. He is also sur- vived by son-in-law Hart Windisch, two step -daughters Jane McBurney of Woodstock and Christine Heimstra of Ayr, Two step -sons Albert Feyhr of Woodstock and Bob Fehyr of Ingersoll along with two brothers, Jhan and Gerrit and three sisters, Johanna Goedhart, Jenneke Boom and Fenneke Hosman all of the Netherlands also survive Mr. Broeze. He is predeceased by his first wife, Gerda Broeze who died in 1969 and is also predeceased by one brother Fritz. Funeral services were held from the Bethel Reformed Church on Saturday, May 20 with Rev. Van Essen in charge. Interment followed in Baird's Cemetery, Stanley Township. Pallbearers were Norman Smith, Bill Taylor, Melvin Johnston, Dinant de Vries, Barnet Van Steeg and Fred Kleinhaar. Flowerbearers were Anton Blok and Albert Postma. News from Brucefield A MacLean, who was also one of the leaders for the day. A tired, but happy group arrived back in Seaforth at 8:00 pm. convinced that it was one of the best outings they ever had. Youth Anniversary The annual Youth Anniversary will be held in Brucefield United Church, Sunday May 28 with the Rev. John Oestreicher the guest minister. Special music will be provided by the junior and senior choirs. IF YOU'VE GOT A LOT TO IMPROVE... DO IT NOW WITH "SPRING SPECIALS" FROM HOMECARE! CLINTON NEWS -RECORD, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1978 --PAGE 7 ERECTONAT SYSTEM SUN DECK .KIT Get more out of life this summer by building a sun deck all by yourself. It will be ideal for barbecues, sun bathing, or just lazing around. Plans are included. 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