C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 524 Disposition versions

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524. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:

(1)  to aid agriculture and horticulture within the municipality.

The local corporation may, if it deems fit, grant the aid above-mentioned by mere resolution;

(2)  to aid in the establishment and maintenance of free public libraries, library associations and mechanics’ institutes in the municipality, or in adjoining municipalities;

(3)  to establish and maintain poor houses, houses of refuge or other establishments for the refuge and relief of the poor and destitute; to give domiciliary relief to the poor of the municipality; and to aid hospital centres or charitable institutions established in the municipality or elsewhere in Québec.

Grants to hospital centres or charitable institutions, authorized under this paragraph, may be paid in equal annual instalments over a period of not more than 25 years, and, in such case, the by-law does not require to have the approval of the elector-proprietors, but it must be approved by the Government;

(4)  to aid an agricultural cooperative situated within the county of which such municipal corporation forms part.

M.C. 1916, a. 398; 1917-18, c. 82, s. 1; 1919, c. 59, s. 24; 1930, c. 105, s. 1; 1930-31, c. 115, s. 1; 1971, c. 48, s. 161; 1979, c. 36, s. 26.