C-19 - Cities and Towns Act

Section 468.28.1 Disposition versions

2024-09-06

468.28.1. A member who so wishes may participate remotely in a meeting by a means allowing all persons who participate in or attend the meeting to see and hear each other in real time.

Remote participation is allowed only if the member participates in the meeting from a location situated in Québec or in a bordering province.

The minutes of the meeting must mention the name of any member who participated in the meeting remotely.

If a majority of the members participate remotely in a meeting, the management board must make a video recording of the meeting and make it available to the public from the working day following the day on which the meeting ended.

Despite the first paragraph, a member must participate in person in the meeting during which the budget of the management board is drawn up. However, a member’s remote participation in that meeting is allowed in the following cases:

(1)  for a reason related to the member’s safety or health, or the safety or health of a close relation, provided that, where a health reason is invoked, a medical certificate attests that the member’s remote participation is necessary;

(2)  because of a deficiency causing a significant and persistent disability that constitutes a barrier to the member’s participation in person in the meeting; or

(3)  because of the member’s pregnancy or the birth or adoption of the member’s child.

2024, c. 24, s. 32.