151. During a fiscal year, the Community may adopt any supplementary budget which it deems necessary.
The supplementary budget is prepared, deposited and forwarded according to the rules applicable to the annual budget, with the necessary modifications. A copy of the budget must be sent to the municipalities and the members of the Council not less than 15 days before it is submitted to the Council.
The supplementary budget is submitted to the Council at a special meeting called for that purpose. Such meeting may close without the budget’s being adopted.
The Council may, on its own motion, amend the supplementary budget.
If the supplementary budget is not adopted within 15 days from the day it is submitted, the appropriations mentioned in the certificate of the treasurer contemplated in section 148 and included in the budget are deemed to be adopted and shall come into force on the expiry of that period.
1969, c. 83, s. 180; 1971, c. 88, s. 29; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1982, c. 63, s. 177; 1999, c. 40, s. 69.