20220704 14304800 1.0 TRUE Special Area Boundary Outline boundaries Rural Municipality Municipality Special Area Special Areas The layer Special Area Boundary Outline represents the outline of all the polygons that represent Special Areas in Alberta. Special Area is a rural municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The layer Special Area Boundary Outline represents the outline of of all the polygons that represent Special Areas in Alberta. Special Area is a rural municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Special Area is a rural municipality type defined under the authority of the Municipal Government Act. Special Areas were established under the Special Areas Act in 1938 due to extreme hardship of the drought years of the 1930s. The Special Areas Act of 1938 has more or less remained intact although there were some amendments in 1966 and 1985. Special Area refers to a rural area in southeast Alberta.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The Special Area dataset provides users with GIS ready polygonal representation of all Special Areas in the province of Alberta, and is suitable for indexing or analysis purposes.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The layer is not visible beyond the scale of 1:27,733,946 with its symbology controlled by scale-based sizing.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV> Government of Alberta <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;font-size:12pt"><P><SPAN>Data Use Limitations</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>To access the data you must agree to the terms of the Open Government License - Alberta.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Use of this information will be governed by the terms of the Open Government License - Alberta, in force as of the date you accessed the information, found at https://open.alberta.ca/license</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Distribution Liability</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Under the terms of the Open Government License - Alberta, the Information is licensed as is, and the Information Provider excludes all representations, warranties, obligations, and liabilities, whether express or implied, to the maximum extent permitted by law. The Information Provider is not liable for any errors or omissions in the Information, and will not under any circumstances be liable for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential, or other loss, injury or damage caused by its use or otherwise arising in connection with this license or the Information, even if specifically advised of the possibility of such loss, injury or damage.</SPAN></P></DIV>