28. For the purposes of the rules established pursuant to section 25, the council shall apportion the expenses, operating deficits and direct and indirect capital and operating costs according to the fiscal potential, within the meaning of section 261.7 of the Act respecting municipal taxation (chapter F-2.1), of the municipalities in the territory of the transit corporations. For the purposes of this paragraph, the coefficients to be used in the multiplication provided in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph of the said section 261.7 are 0.22 for the city of Laval and 0.46 for every municipality situated within the territory of the Société de transport de la rive sud de Montréal.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the apportionment can be made according to another criterion determined by by-law of the council or according to a criterion determined by by-law and the criterion set out in the first paragraph.
If the apportionment is made according to the fiscal potential or on another basis which includes this potential or of which the determination shall otherwise require consideration of the values referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 261.5 of the Act respecting municipal taxation, the Council, for the purposes of section 57.3 of the said Act, shall be deemed to be a public transit authority.
1990, c. 41, s. 28; 1991, c. 32, s. 272; 1993, c. 78, s. 18.