C-37.2 - Act respecting the Communauté urbaine de Montréal

Section 210 Disposition versions

1985-06-20

1985-01-01

1982-07-11

0001-01-01

210. The budget of the Community and the budget of the Transit Commission shall be submitted to the Council not later than 15 November at a special meeting called for such purpose.

Such meeting shall be adjourned as often as necessary and, subject to the following paragraph, shall not be closed until the budget of the Community and the budget of the Transit Commission are adopted.

If the budget of the Community and the budget of the Transit Commission are not adopted by the Council on 5 December, they shall automatically come into force from such date.

However, if the budget of the Community or the budget of the Transit Commission comes into force automatically under this section without having been formally approved by the Council, ten members of the Council representing the City of Montréal or five members of such Council appointed by other municipalities may apply to the Commission municipale du Québec, by a petition served upon the Community, and, where such is the case, upon the Transit Commission, and filed with the Commission municipale du Québec before the ensuing 20 December of the same year, to have such budgets amended in whole or in part.

After it has notified the municipalities concerned and heard those which have expressed their desire to be heard, the Commission municipale du Québec must render its decision before the ensuing 1 February. In such decision it may confirm or amend the budget. Nevertheless, it shall not amend the budget unless it is convinced that such budget entails serious prejudice to the ratepayers of any part of the territory of the Community.

According as to which party loses, it may order the Community or such municipalities as it designates to pay to the Community or to the municipalities which it designates such amount as it considers equitable to meet the expenses incurred for such appeal; the order for such purpose shall be homologated upon a motion to the Provincial Court or, if the amount in dispute is three thousand dollars or more, by the Superior Court; the order so homologated shall be executory in the same manner as a judgment of such a court.

It may also make any interlocutory order to safeguard the rights of the interested parties during the suit.

1969, c. 84, s. 248; 1972, c. 73, s. 7; 1974, c. 82, s. 21; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.