4. Any local municipality in respect of which the following conditions are met for the first fiscal year preceding the current fiscal year is eligible under the first part of the scheme:(1) its standardized property value per inhabitant established in accordance with Subdivision 2 of Division III, in the aggregate constituted of the standardized property values per inhabitant that are taken into consideration under Subdivision 4 of Division III, was less than 80% of the median; and
(2) the average value of the dwellings situated in its territory established in accordance with Subdivision 3 of Division III, in the aggregate constituted of the average values of the dwellings that are taken into consideration under Subdivision 4 of Division III, was less than 104% of the median.
A municipality in respect of which the dividend or divisor is nil in the division performed to establish the value referred to in the first paragraph is not eligible. No datum related to that municipality must be taken into consideration to establish a median referred to in the first paragraph.
A municipality that, for the fiscal year preceding the year of reference, had revenues from the application of section 222 of the Act is not eligible, even if the conditions in the first paragraph are met in its respect, if the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy does not receive, before 1 May of the current fiscal year, the financial report of the municipality for that preceding fiscal year. Such a report is deemed not to have been received if it does not comply with the legislative and regulatory provisions governing the municipality in that matter.
O.C. 661-2008, s. 4; 416-2016O.C. 416-2016, s. 21.