Capital Regional District, British Columbia
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The Capital Regional District (CRD) is a sub-provincial administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands: (Saltspring, Galiano, Pender, Saturna, Mayne), and several smaller islands. On Vancouver Island, the CRD encompasses the thirteen municipalities of Greater Victoria and the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (including the unorganized districts of East Sooke, Port Renfrew, Jordan River, and the southern Malahat). Its administrative locus is in the City of Victoria. The total land area is 2,341.11 km² (903.9 sq mi).
The CRD is one of several regional districts in British Columbia and had an official population of 325,754 as of the Canada 2001 Census. Its responsibilities include providing funding for non-profit arts groups, administering the water supply, providing public health services, and overseeing thirty regional parks, trails, and regional park reserves encompassing over 100 km². The CRD can also pass bylaws that are binding in its member municipalities. These include a controversial smoking ban in all public places, first introduced in 1996.
The CRD assumes responsibilities ordinarily undertaken by municipalities in unorganized districts of the CRD. These responsibilities include animal control, building inspection, fire protection, and parking and bylaw enforcement. Some of the region's municipalities avail themselves of some of these services in a contractual arrangement with the CRD.
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