205. A local municipality may, by by-law of its council, bind the owners of an immovable contemplated in paragraph 4, 5, 10 or 11 of section 204 that is situated in its territory to pay compensation for municipal services, unless, in the case of an immovable referred to in paragraph 4, 10 or 11 of section 204, that immovable is a structure intended for lodging persons, sheltering animals or storing things, which is part of a waterworks or sewer system or of a plant or equipment for water or garbage treatment, or unless it is land which is the site of such a structure.
The compensation is imposed according to the value of the immovable, at a rate fixed by the council that may vary according to the classes of immovables.
In the case of an immovable referred to in paragraph 4, 10 or 11 of section 204, the rate shall not be higher than that of the general real estate tax nor exceed $0,50 per $100 of assessment.
In the case of an immovable referred to in paragraph 5 of section 204, the application of the rate shall not result in a compensation that exceeds the total amount of sums that result from taxes, compensations or modes of tariffing that would be payable were the immovable not exempt therefrom and were the sixth paragraph not applicable, other than the business tax and the surtax or the tax on non-residential immovables. However, in the case of a structure intended for lodging persons, sheltering animals or storing things that is serviced by a waterworks or sewer system or that is part of a plant or equipment for water or garbage treatment, or in the case of land that is the site of such a structure, the application of the rate shall not result in a compensation that exceeds the total amount of the sums resulting from the modes of tariffing that would be payable in respect of the immovable, were it not exempt therefrom and were the sixth paragraph not applicable, for the municipal services from which the immovable, its owner or its occupant derives the benefit within the meaning of section 244.3.
This section also applies in respect of land contemplated in paragraph 12 of section 204; in that case, the rate of compensation shall not be higher than that of the general real estate tax nor exceed $0.80 per $100 of assessment of the land.
The compensation provided for in this section stands in lieu, in respect of the immovable concerned, of taxes, compensations and modes of tariffing imposed by the municipality on a person who is the owner, lessee or occupant of an immovable.
The preceding six paragraphs do not apply to an immovable which becomes taxable under the second paragraph of section 208.
1979, c. 72, s. 205; 1988, c. 76, s. 58; 1991, c. 32, s. 101; 1996, c. 67, s. 49.