Local Government: A British Columbia Legal Handbook

William Buholzer's classic portable guide to BC local government laws

Current to: July 1, 2015

Bill Buholzer has completed a new edition of his guide to local government laws, which CLEBC has released under the title Local Government: A British Columbia Legal Handbook. Bill is well known as an author and lawyer; this guide has always attracted a wide audience in the legal and local government communities.

Local Government: A British Columbia Legal Handbook provides an accessible, topic-by-topic review of how the Local Government Act and the Charter work with other legislation to govern each aspect of local government law, and offers insights into how the courts of British Columbia and other Canadian "broad municipal powers" jurisdictions view local government laws.

Read our interview with the author.

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Highlights of the 2015 Update

The 2015 edition adds commentary on key new developments, including:

• campaign financing and reporting under the Local Elections Campaign Financing Act
• elections and voting under the Local Government Act
• administration of building standards under the pending Building Act
• regulation of land use contracts under the Local Government Act
• transportation issues, such as the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation
• important judicial decisions in 2014 and 2015
• all other noteworthy developments since December 2012

For the convenience of subscribers, the 2015 edition includes the full text of the Community Charter.

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CLEBC Legal Editor
Jonathan Vogt
jvogt@cle.bc.ca

CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: The Statutory Context for British Columbia's Local Governments

Chapter 2: Local Government Bodies

Chapter 3: Local Government Elections

Chapter 4: Local Government Services

Chapter 5: Local Government Regulatory Powers

Chapter 6: Local Government Corporate Powers

Chapter 7: Local Governance

Chapter 8: Local Government Finance

Chapter 9: Planning and Land Use Management

Chapter 10: Attacking Local Government Decisions

Community Charter

Community Charter Transitional Provisions, Part 1

Case Table

Statute Table

Index

This guidebook includes finding tools that provide speedy access to the chapters and the legislation

• ten topical chapters provide frequent cross-reference to the Community Charter and the Local Government Act
• statute table, with section-by-section access from the table to the chapters
• comprehensive subject index
• over 300 pages in a convenient 6" by 9" softbound format
• online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law

Author
William A. Buholzer — Young, Anderson, Vancouver

About the author
William A. Buholzer is a partner at the Vancouver firm of Young, Anderson, where his practice focuses on land use and planning law, building regulation, and other local government issues. He worked for several years as a city planner in Alberta and BC. Mr. Buholzer is a graduate of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and the Faculty of Law, UBC, and was called to the BC bar in 1991. He is the author of British Columbia Planning Law and Practice (Butterworths), and the author of the “Planning and Zoning” title in Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (2008). Mr. Buholzer is a past chair of the Municipal Law section of the CBA, BC Branch, an associate member of Continuing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and adjunct professor at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. In 2010, Mr. Buholzer was elected to the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners in recognition of his contribution to the planning profession.