Government of Saskatchewan ministries, Crown corporations and organizations are implementing contingency plans to minimize the impacts of postal service disruption.
Les ministères, sociétés d’État et organismes du gouvernement de la Saskatchewan mettent en œuvre des plans d’urgence visant à réduire les répercussions de l’interruption du service des postes.
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All public roads (including lanes, streets and original road allowances) are owned by the Crown. Other than provincial highways, municipalities are given the authority to direct, control and manage all streets and roads within their municipality.
A municipality has discretion over where and when roads may be built depending on its budget, and over the construction and maintenance standards. No law exists that requires a municipality to build any road. Each situation is unique and subject to a municipality's discretion.
Section 13 of The Municipalities Act sets out the procedure to close a street or road owned by the Crown and under the direction of the municipality. A municipality may close a street or road in order to:
When closing a street or road in order to be sold, the title will be transferred from the Crown to the purchaser. As well, the street or road is no longer under the municipality's direction and is no longer available for public travel.
The municipality is required to provide public notice in accordance with its public notice policy stating that council is considering enacting a bylaw to close a road allowance. The notice must state:
Additional notice may be required where the proposed closure requires the approval of the Minister of Highways. Before considering a bylaw to close a street or road, council will provide persons who claim to be negatively impacted an opportunity to be heard.
Any lease or sale of a roadway must not eliminate access to land, and the lease or sale is subject to any existing easements or public right of way for public utility services. Leases of closed roadways are required to contain a provision which enables the municipality to prematurely terminate the lease or to request public access. Copies of lease agreements, along with the bylaw, are to be filed with the Minister of Highways.
The Ministry of Highways must review the following requests for consent:
Effective April 1, 2019, municipalities must pay service fees for any of the following land transactions:
Section 22 of The Municipalities Act provides authority for municipalities to enter into a Road Maintenance Agreement (RMA) with haulers, shippers or receivers of delivered goods. Municipalities often use RMAs in cases where there is concentrated heavy hauling from an identifiable source or there is heavy haul traffic that routes through a municipality where the hauler, shipper or receiver does not have a property tax base.
RMAs are intended to address the incremental costs associated with heavy hauling and not the full cost of maintenance, construction and repair of municipal roads. Rates for RMAs and other regulations are set by the province and these can be found starting in section 9 of The Municipalities Regulations. The Government of Saskatchewan amended The Municipalities Regulations related to RMAs, which came into effect on January 1, 2022.
The updated regulations create a more consistent, transparent and clear process for all involved. Key changes include:
Download the 2024-25 Road Maintenance Agreements. A sample RMA template (Word) is also available for municipalities and industry to use when creating an agreement.
The published RMA rates are based on data for 2021. The rates will be refreshed again by the end of 2025 and be effective for the years 2026 and 2027.
Municipalities have the authority to pass a bylaw to charge gravel crushers and extractors a gravel extraction licence fee. Formulas found in Section 8.1 of The Municipalities Regulations set out the maximum fee a municipality may establish. The formula was implemented in 2008 and is used to update the maximum fee every two years.
Effective January 1, 2024, the maximum gravel extraction rates for 2024 and 2025 will be:
The maximum fee is increased based on the annual percentage changes for the "all-items" Consumer Price Index (CPI) for Saskatchewan for the two years before the first year the new rates are to come into effect. The rate increase for 2024 and 2025 represents a CPI inflation rate of 3.3 per cent in 2021 and 7.1 per cent in 2022.
Questions or concerns about gravel extraction maximum fees can be directed to a municipal advisor at 306-787-2680.
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