234.2. Before giving an opinion under any of sections 51, 53.7, 56.4, 56.14 and 65 to a regional county municipality that is the responsible body with respect to an RCM plan applicable to a territory contiguous to the territory of the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal or the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, the Minister must request that the metropolitan community give its opinion on the document submitted to the Minister.
Before giving an opinion under any of those sections to the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec or to a regional county municipality that is the responsible body with respect to an RCM plan applicable to part of the territory of the metropolitan community, the Minister must request an assessment from the Commission de la capitale nationale du Québec with respect to the document submitted.
The opinion or assessment requested under either of the first two paragraphs must be received by the Minister, respectively, within 45 or 60 days after the request is made, depending on whether the ministerial opinion is applied for under any of sections 51, 53.7 and 65 or either of sections 56.4 and 56.14. Despite section 47 of the Act respecting the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal (chapter C-37.01) or section 38 of the Act respecting the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec (chapter C-37.02), the council of the metropolitan community may delegate to the executive committee the power to prepare the opinion requested by the Minister. Aside from inconsistency with government policy directions referred to in the sections mentioned in the first paragraph, an objection or disapproval expressed by the Minister under any of those sections may be based on a reason set out in the opinion or assessment received by the Minister. For the purposes of the provisions that concern the process of amendment or revision of the RCM plan or an interim control by-law related to that process and that refer to consistency or inconsistency with government policy directions, that reference also includes the solution or lack of a solution offered to the problems raised in the opinion of the Minister based on the opinion or assessment received by the Minister.
The first four paragraphs do not apply when the Minister gives an opinion(1) under section 53.7 on a replacement by-law referred to in the second paragraph of section 53.8;
(2) under section 53.7 if the proposed amendment to the RCM plan results from the application of section 53.12 or 53.13;
(3) under section 56.14 in respect of a revised replacement RCM plan adopted pursuant to a request by the Minister under the second paragraph of that section; or
(4) under section 65 on a replacement interim control by-law adopted pursuant to a request by the Minister under the second paragraph of that section.
2010, c. 10, s. 94; 2023, c. 122023, c. 12, s. 931.