263. The Minister may by regulation(1) prescribe the form and content of the property assessment roll and the roll of rental values; prescribe the process by which the rolls are to be prepared and kept up to date; prescribe the information to be collected and established for the purpose of preparing the rolls and keeping them up to date, the form in which it must be sent to a person who is entitled to obtain it under the law and the information that is to accompany the rolls on their deposit; prescribe rules to favour continuity between successive rolls; require the assessor to transmit to the Minister, free of charge, the information included in the summary of the roll in the cases and according to the rules determined by the Minister; refer to a manual containing matters contemplated by this Act, as it exists at the time that the assessor must apply it, provided that the Minister gives notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec of each updating of the manual made after the coming into force of the regulations under this paragraph;
(2) prescribe the form or content of the following documents:(a) notices of assessment;
(b) municipal tax accounts;
(c) assessor’s certificates;
(d) forms for applications for review;
(e) notices contemplated in section 153 or 180;
(f) demands for payment of a tax supplement;
(2.0.1) increase, for the purposes of sections 81 and 134, the values prescribed in respect of assessment units and business establishments, respectively;
(2.1) (subparagraph repealed);
(3) (subparagraph repealed);
(4) fix the minimum amount that the total municipal property tax due in one account must attain to entitle the debtor to pay his taxes in two or more instalments;
(5) prescribe rules to determine the median proportion of the actual property value of units of assessment that corresponds to the values entered on the property roll of a local municipality; define categories of municipalities and establish separate rules for each category; prescribe that the assessor must, for the purpose of determining the median proportion, use the list of sales furnished by the Minister; provide that the assessor may amend the list for reasons that conform to the rules enacted under this paragraph; prescribe that the operations for computing the median proportion, including, as the case may be, the amendments to the list of sales, must be entered on a form furnished by the Minister, which must be returned to him once it is completed within the time limit he fixes; prescribe any other report that the assessor must make to the Minister within the same time limit concerning the determination of the median proportion;
(6) prescribe rules to standardize the designation of taxes, the form of taxation by-laws and resolutions and the method of computing taxes;
(7) (subparagraph repealed);
(8) require the filing and publication of an explanatory document on the budget setting forth the estimates of revenues and expenditures of the local municipality in the various categories for the current fiscal period and the preceding fiscal period, and any other information that the municipality considers expedient;
(9) fix the value which, multiplied by the median proportion of the roll, constitutes the maximum non-taxable value of a rectory contemplated by section 231.1;
(9.1) define, for the purposes of section 244.51, the term “local railway”, in particular by referring to a list of railways;
(10) (subparagraph repealed);
(11) (subparagraph repealed);
(12) determine the cases and manner in which a document referred to in the second paragraph of section 78 may be examined by a municipal body responsible for assessment other than the body that draws up the roll of the local municipality concerned by the document.