Bill PR6 explained in plain English
Art Gallery of Guelph Act, 2014
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Bill Pr6, also known as the Art Gallery of Guelph Act, 2014, changes the name of The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre and updates its governing legislation.
This Bill changes the name of The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre to the Art Gallery of Guelph. It also updates the rules about how the Art Gallery of Guelph is run, who its sponsoring bodies are, and how its board of trustees is selected. The Bill repeals the original Act that established The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre.
- Continues The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre as a corporation without share capital under the new name, Art Gallery of Guelph.
- Defines the objects of the Art Gallery of Guelph, including collecting and exhibiting art, operating a community art centre, and conducting educational programs in the visual arts.
- Grants the Art Gallery of Guelph the capacity, rights, powers, and privileges of a natural person, subject to the limitations in the Act.
- Specifies that the sponsoring bodies are not obligated to provide financial or other support to the Gallery.
- Prohibits the use of provincial educational grants for support of the Gallery.
- Establishes the composition of the board of trustees for the Art Gallery of Guelph, including a minimum and maximum number of trustees and how they are appointed or elected by sponsoring bodies and members.
- Empowers the board to pass by-laws for the management of the Gallery, including governing public use, membership classes, meetings, board operations, and the addition or removal of sponsoring bodies.
- Grants the board additional powers to appoint officers and employees, establish committees, and enter into agreements.
- Allows the board to determine the Gallery's fiscal year.
- Grants the Gallery powers regarding property, including purchase, acquisition, holding, and disposition, subject to certain conditions.
- Allows the board to borrow money and issue securities with the prior written approval of all sponsoring bodies.
- Grants the board powers to invest the Gallery's funds.
- Exempts real property owned by the Gallery from municipal and school taxation if used for the Gallery's purposes.
- Prohibits the expropriation of the Gallery's real property by most corporations or persons.
- Requires the Gallery's property and income to be applied solely towards its objects.
- Restricts the board from selling, hypothecating, mortgaging, or pledging property that was given with such a condition.
- Requires the board to appoint auditors and provide audit reports to sponsoring bodies.
- Requires the board to prepare and provide annual reports and other requested reports to sponsoring bodies and the Lieutenant Governor.
- Repeals The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre Act, 1978.
- The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre (now the Art Gallery of Guelph)
- The board of trustees of the Art Gallery of Guelph
- The Corporation of the City of Guelph (as a sponsoring body)
- The University of Guelph (as a sponsoring body)
- The Upper Grand District School Board (as a sponsoring body)
- Members of the Art Gallery of Guelph
- The public using the Gallery's facilities
- Elementary and high school students and the general public participating in educational programs
- The County of Wellington (removed as a sponsoring body)
- Municipal and school taxation authorities (in relation to property tax exemption)
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council
- Sponsoring bodies are not obligated to provide financial or other support.
- Provincial educational grants are not to be used to support the Gallery.
- The Gallery's property and income must be applied solely towards its objects.
- The board must appoint auditors and provide reports.
- The board must prepare and provide annual reports.
- The board may add, remove, or substitute sponsoring bodies.
- The board may pass by-laws governing various aspects of the Gallery's operations.
- The board may appoint officers and employees.
- The board may borrow money with prior written approval from all sponsoring bodies.
- The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent (December 11, 2014).
- Real property owned by the Gallery is exempt from municipal or school taxation if used for the Gallery's purposes.
- Grants paid for educational purposes shall not be used to support the Gallery.
- The Gallery may charge admission fees as set by by-laws.
- The Gallery may charge fees for membership classes as set by by-laws.
- The board may borrow money and issue securities.
- The Act does not specify enforcement mechanisms or penalties for non-compliance, but it does outline powers and procedures for the Gallery's operation and governance.
- The specific details regarding the term of office, remuneration, re-election, re-appointment, termination of trustees, replacement of vacant positions, and selection of chair/vice-chairs are to be set out in the board's by-laws, and are not detailed in the Act itself.
- The number of trustees appointed by additional sponsoring bodies is to be determined by the board, but not more than three for each additional body.
- The borrowing of money and the sale, hypothecation, mortgage, or pledge of property to secure debt requires the prior written approval of all sponsoring bodies.
This Act repeals the previous legislation that established and governed The Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre.
Source: Section 19
This Act effectively replaces and repeals the Macdonald Stewart Community Art Centre Act, 1978, by continuing the corporation under a new name and establishing new governing provisions.
Source: Section 2(1) and Section 19
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