143. Subject to the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2), the Community may, by by-law, order the carrying out, even outside its territory, of all work respecting depollution works serving or intended to serve the territories of two or more municipalities included in its territory or of work designed to generate cost savings in respect of the collecting system. In the latter case, however, the consent of the local municipality in whose territory the work is carried out is required.
Subject to any tariff established under section 222.1 to finance the property, services and activities relating to the reception of waste water or other substances, the expenses resulting from the carrying out of the work contemplated in the first paragraph and from the maintenance, management and operation of the works contemplated in the said paragraph shall be apportioned in accordance with section 220 and the by-law adopted under section 220.1 unless, at the request of the Community or of a municipality, the Minister of the Environment and Wildlife himself fixes the apportionment and the method of payment, including the fixing of an indemnity, periodic or otherwise, payable for the use of the works or for the services provided by the Community.
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