C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 547 Disposition versions

2006-01-01

1999-10-22

1996-05-08

1992-06-23

1985-06-20

0001-01-01

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

(a)  to enact that throughout the municipality, or in such portion as the council may designate, the owner, lessee or occupant of any immovable, or the person who has deposited the same, shall be obliged to remove ashes, swill, offal, refuse, garbage, manure, dead animals, night-soil, and other unhealthy or offensive matter, and to dispose thereof in the manner prescribed by the council;

(b)  to provide itself for the removal of such matter, throughout the municipality or in such portion thereof as the council may designate and determine the manner of disposing thereof; provide for the payment of the cost either by a tax on the taxable real property of the municipality or of the part designated, or by a compensation, which may vary with each category of users and is payable by the owner, tenant or occupant of each house, store or other building;

(c)  to enact that the compensation must, in all cases, be paid by the owner. It is then assimilated to a real estate tax imposed on the immovable for which it is due;

(d)  to enact that the compensation, in the case of a residence inhabited during part of the year only, is smaller and fixed proportionately to the number of months the service is used or to the average number of months it is used in a given sector as established by the council.

1945, c. 70, s. 5; 1979, c. 36, s. 29.