257. The amount of money paid by the Government in respect of an immovable contemplated in the first paragraph of section 255 stands in lieu of municipal property taxes and the tax paid in respect of a business establishment contemplated in the said paragraph stands in lieu of the business tax. The Government shall also pay to the local municipality, in the place of the owner of an immovable referred to in the first paragraph of section 255, taxes other than property taxes, compensations and tariffs imposed by the municipality on any person as the owner of an immovable; section 254.1 applies with regard to the sum thus payable.
The amount of money paid by the Government in respect of an immovable contemplated in the second, third and fourth paragraphs of section 255 stands in lieu, in its respect, of taxes, compensations and modes of tariffing imposed by the local municipality on a person as the owner, lessee, or occupant of an immovable. For the purposes of this paragraph, in addition to the meaning assigned by section 1, “owner” means the person in whose name the unit of assessment that includes the immovable is entered on the roll.
1979, c. 72, s. 257; 1980, c. 34, s. 46; 1982, c. 63, s. 220; 1983, c. 40, s. 74; 1988, c. 76, s. 79; 1991, c. 32, s. 150; 1999, c. 40, s. 133; 2004, c. 20, s. 188.