82.9. The function of a committee is to examine any question within its field of competence and to make such recommendations as it deems appropriate to the Council.
A committee shall carry out its function at the request of the Council or the executive committee, or of its own motion.
The public safety committee may, by resolution, decide to make the recommendations it considers confidential and which are directly related to the prevention, detection and repression of crime or breaches of the law to the executive committee instead of the Council. Moreover, the public safety committee shall give to the executive committee the advice and examination provided for in section 178.1.
The executive committee may render any confidential recommendation made to it by the public safety committee, and the notice and examination accompanying it, available to the public.
1982, c. 18, s. 28; 1987, c. 68, s. 58.