C-37.1 - Act respecting the Communauté urbaine de l’Outaouais

Section 135 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

1991-01-01

1985-01-01

1983-06-23

0001-01-01

135. Such budget 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 unless the budget is adopted.

If it is not adopted by the Council before 15 December, such budget shall automatically come into force from such date.

However, if it comes into force automatically under this section without having been formally approved by the Council, five members of the Council may apply to the Commission municipale du Québec, by a petition served upon the Community and filed with the Commission municipale before the ensuing 1 January, to have such budget amended in whole or in part.

After it has notified the municipalities interested and heard those which expressed the desire to be heard, the Commission municipale must render its decision before the ensuing 1 February. It may confirm or amend the budget. Nevertheless, it shall not amend the budget unless it is convinced that such budget entails a serious prejudice to the ratepayers.

It may order the Community, the Transit Commission or such municipalities as it designates, to pay, according to the losing party, 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, according to the jurisdiction involved, 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. 85, s. 173; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.