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 draft RESIDENCY Law

Attention all MFN Band Members, please fill out this survey to enter into our Chi-Naakinagewin Draw. Each week in June and July, we will draw 3 names for $50 VISA gift cards. Submit using the online survey! Or fill out and place in the dropbox at the band office. Please call or email if you need a local pick-up, or would like to give you answers over the phone at amandasayers@mississaugi.com or 705-356-1621, ext. 2213.
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Summary
Introduction

The Residency Law was developed to help maintain who is residing with Mississauga First Nation community. This law also helps hold our community members accountable for handing all appropriate information into the Band Office to be filed on record. The Residency Law intentions is to ensure that all appropriate information is documents but also gives that insight of who is residing within the community. The following content will give you an understanding of what to expect from the Residency Law.
Purpose
The Residency Law intentions is to ensure that all appropriate information is documents but also gives that insight of who is residing within the community. The following content will give you an understanding of what to expect from the Residency Law.
Intake Process
All requests for a Residency Permit must be filed with the Residency Committee and shall include the following:
  1. The applicant’s reasons for applying for permission to reside
  2. The approximate time requesting for permission to reside
  3. The location at which the applicant proposes to reside
  4. The name of the spouse of the applicant, if any
  5. The name(s) of the applicant’s dependent children, if any
  6. A CPIC or other criminal check completed within the preceding 60 days
  7. Verification of the applicant’s sources of income
  8. Any other information the applicant is requested to provide relating to the considerations of the Residency Committee as set out in Section 8 (a).
Timeline
After the filing of a properly completed, application, the Committee shall invite the applicant to a regularly scheduled Committee meeting to review the application within 30 days.
Revocation
On the receipt of a petition from at least ten (10) Mississauga Band Members residing on the Reserve, the Residency Committee may revoke the Residency Permit of any non-member who is referred to in section 3 where, after a hearing, it has been shown that the person, while resident on the reserve,
  1. has been convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code of Canada for which a pardon has not been granted, involving:
    1. violence or the threat of violence to a person
    2. sexual abuse or assault
    3. a hate crime or a racially motivated crime
    4. the abuse of an elder, including financial abuse 
Enforcement Officer
An officer may order any person who is residing on the reserve, and who is not lawful entitled to reside on the Reserve according to section 3 of this law, to cease to reside on the reserve.
 
Penalties
Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this law commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding thirty (30) days, or both.

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SATURDAY | CLOSED
​SUNDAY | CLOSED

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Blind River, Ontario P0R 1B0
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  • Home
  • About Us
  • Community
    • Covid-19 Resources
    • News >
      • Annual Pow-Wow
      • Events
      • Weekly Newsletter
      • Minwaajim - Smoke Signal
    • Mississagi Trust
    • In Motion Fitness Centre
    • Library
    • Youth
    • Employment
    • Red Pine Lodge
    • Women's Shelter
    • Mental Health Resources
    • Police Services
    • Local Business Directory
  • Governance
    • Laws & Policies
    • Notice of Assertions
    • Chief & Council >
      • Previous Councils
    • Minutes & Agendas
    • Committees
    • Membership
    • Affiliations & Relations >
      • Nisoonag Partnership
    • Reports & Publications
  • Departments
    • Education >
      • Anishnaabemowin
      • Binojee Nagadawenjigamik Daycare
      • Post-Secondary
    • Chi-Naakinagewin >
      • Sustainable Harvesting
      • Safe Separation Law
      • Residency Law
      • Family Unity Declaration - Abinojii Adziwin Project
    • Economic Development
    • Health Services
    • Social Services >
      • Support for Families
    • Infrastructure >
      • Public Works
      • Fire Services
    • Housing
    • Lands & Natural Resources >
      • Land Use Map
      • By-Law Services
    • Finance
    • Niigaaniin
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