244.4. The mode of tariffing shall remain related to the benefit derived even if the revenue generated thereby exceeds the expenses attributable to the property, service or activity, provided that the excess amount is justified by sound management principles such as the obligation to standardize the demand, to take competition into consideration and to enable the inhabitants and ratepayers of the territory of the municipality to take precedence over other beneficiaries or, where the mode of tariffing is a fixed amount exigible in a punctual manner for the use of a property or a service, if the excess amount is justified by a more frequent use than what had been anticipated.
1988, c. 76, s. 68; 1991, c. 32, s. 160.