8.8.6. In accordance with section 53.31.4 of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2), for the years 2024 and following, the compensation owed to a municipality that fails to send a declaration complying with the prescriptions of section 6.2 to the Société québécoise de récupération et de recyclage within the time set in that section is reduced by 10% as a penalty, unless the Société deems that the failure results from special circumstances beyond the municipality’s control. If a municipality fails to file the declaration by 1 September of a given year, the compensation owed to the municipality is the same as the compensation owed to it for the previous year, reduced by 20% as a penalty. The 20% penalty is not payable if the Société deems that the failure results from special circumstances beyond the municipality’s control.
Despite the first and second paragraphs, no compensation is owed to a municipality that, on 31 December 2025 for compensation owed for the year 2025 or 31 December of each following year to the compensation owed for each of those years, has not sent its declaration to the Société, unless the Société deems that the failure results from special circumstances beyond the municipality’s control.
770-2022O.C. 770-2022, s. 171; 1368-2023O.C. 1368-2023, s. 101.