121. A municipality having a population of 20 000 or over but under 100 000, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1978 under that act, may, in a by-law that its council adopts and puts into force in accordance with this act, decree that the following apply thereto:(a) Part I of this act, or
(b) only chapters I, IV, V, VII and VIII of such Part.
Chapters I, VII and VIII of Part I of this act apply to a municipality having a population of 20 000 or over, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1979 under this act. Such a municipality may, by by-law of its council adopted and put into force in accordance with the act governing it, order that Chapters II, III, IV, V and VI of Part I of this act apply to it as well.
Any municipality having a population of less than 20 000, whatever the act governing it may be, except a county municipality, where a general election must take place in 1979 under this act may, by by-law of its council adopted and put into force in accordance with this act and approved by the Minister of Municipal Affairs, order that Chapters I, II, III and VIII of Part I of this act apply to it.
The provisions made applicable to a municipality by a by-law adopted in conformity with this section become effective in this municipality on the date of the coming into force of such by-law.
Where Chapter II of Part I of this act applies to a municipality under a by-law adopted in conformity with this section, a certified true copy of such a by-law must be transmitted without delay to the Standing Commission on Reform of the Electoral Districts.
1978, c. 63, s. 121; 1979, c. 39, s. 14.