101.1. The chairman or the vice-chairman of the Council is appointed for a four year term.
However, if he ceases to be a member of the Council before the expiry of that term, he ceases at the same time to be the chairman or the vice-chairman.
For the purposes of the second paragraph, a person does not cease to be a member of the Council at the expiry of his term as a member of the council of a municipality if he is reelected at the election held at or after the expiry of his term, according as the member is a councillor or mayor, if, within the prescribed time, he makes the oath required of any elected person and if his reelection enables him to again become a member of the Council as the representative of the same municipality.
1982, c. 18, s. 32; 1987, c. 57, s. 782.