E-2.1 - Act respecting elections in certain municipalities

Section 121 Disposition versions

1980-06-18

121. Chapters II and III of Part I apply for the purposes of a general election prescribed for 1980 solely to a municipality having a population, on 18 June 1980, of 20 000 or over. For the purposes of that election in that municipality, the periods mentioned in the first and second paragraphs of section 3 expire on 31 July and 31 August 1980, respectively, the first paragraph of section 4 applies imperatively, and the by-law contemplated in section 3 may be passed without following the procedure provided in sections 3.3 to 3.8.

1978, c. 63, s. 121; 1979, c. 39, s. 14; 1980, c. 16, s. 33.

1979-06-22

121. A municipality having a population of 20 000 or over but under 100 000, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1978 under that act, may, in a by-law that its council adopts and puts into force in accordance with this act, decree that the following apply thereto:

(a)  Part I of this act, or

(b)  only chapters I, IV, V, VII and VIII of such Part.

Chapters I, VII and VIII of Part I of this act apply to a municipality having a population of 20 000 or over, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1979 under this act. Such a municipality may, by by-law of its council adopted and put into force in accordance with the act governing it, order that Chapters II, III, IV, V and VI of Part I of this act apply to it as well.

Any municipality having a population of less than 20 000, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1979 under this act may, by by-law of its council adopted and put into force in accordance with this act and approved by the Minister of Municipal Affairs, order that Chapters I, II, III and VIII of Part I of this act apply to it.

The provisions made applicable to a municipality by a by-law adopted in conformity with this section become effective in this municipality on the date of the coming into force of such by-law.

Where Chapter II of Part I of this act applies to a municipality under a by-law adopted in conformity with this section, a certified true copy of such a by-law must be transmitted without delay to the Standing Commission on Reform of the Electoral Districts.

1978, c. 63, s. 121; 1979, c. 39, s. 14.

1978-06-23

121. A municipality having a population of 20 000 or over but under 100 000, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1978 under that act, may, in a by-law that its council adopts and puts into force in accordance with this act, decree that the following apply thereto:

(a)  Part I of this act, or

(b)  only chapters I, IV, V, VII and VIII of such Part.

The provisions contemplated in paragraph a or paragraph b of the first paragraph, as the case may be, become effective in this municipality on the date of the coming into force of the by-law contemplated in the first paragraph.

In the case where the municipal council decrees that Part I applies thereto, a certified copy of such a by-law must be transmitted without delay to the Standing Commission on Reform of the Electoral Districts.

1978, c. 63, s. 121.