262. The Government may by regulation(1) (paragraph repealed);
(2) (a) increase the percentage provided in the second, third or fourth paragraph of section 255;
(a.1) amend the rules for establishing the amount of money paid by the Government in respect of an immovable or business establishment referred to in the first paragraph of section 255 whose owner or occupant is the State;
(b) list the immovables or business establishments comprised in a category contemplated in section 255, or excluded therefrom;
(b.1) (subparagraph repealed);
(c) prescribe the rules for calculating the aggregate taxation rate of a local municipality, for the purposes of section 210 or 255, which may differ from those provided for in Division III of Chapter XVIII.1;
(d) designate the person who pays the amount contemplated in section 210, 254 or 257 and prescribe the other terms and conditions of that payment; designate different persons or prescribe different terms and conditions according to such classes of immovables or business establishments as it may determine;
(e) prescribe rules of payment or refunding applicable to the amount contemplated in section 210, 254 or 257;
(f) prescribe the payment and mode of computation of interest in cases of late payment of the amount referred to in section 210, 254 or 257, including the payment or refund contemplated in subparagraph e, or in cases where a decision of the Administrative Tribunal of Québec or a court judgment gives rise to a payment or a refund contemplated in the said subparagraph;
(g) prescribe the time limit within which the demand for payment contemplated in section 210, 254.1 or 257 must be made;
(h) determine the cases in which a summary of the roll, produced in accordance with the regulation made under subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph of section 263, stands in lieu of a demand for payment referred to in section 210 or 254.1;
(3) (paragraph repealed);
(4) (paragraph repealed);
(5) (paragraph repealed);
(5.1) (paragraph repealed);
(6) (paragraph repealed);
(7) establish the equalization scheme provided for in section 261 and set the rules provided for in the second paragraph of that section;
(8) (paragraph repealed);
(8.1) define the word “Indian” for the purposes of section 231.2;
(8.2) impose any conditions or restrictions, which may vary according to the situations it determines, of the exercise of any power provided for in sections 244.1 to 244.9;
(8.3) fix the property or rental value which, according as the value entered on the roll of a unit of assessment business establishment that is the subject of a proceeding before the Tribunal is equal to or greater or smaller than the said property or rental value, is used to determine whether a rule provided for in section 148.3 of this Act or in section 33, 85 or 135 of the Act respecting administrative justice (chapter J-3) applies; (8.4) provide that all or part of a sum payable to a local municipality under section 210, 254, 257 or 261 may, notwithstanding that section, not be paid in the case of a contravention of section 46.1 or the second paragraph of section 72 in respect of the property assessment roll of the municipality or in the case of a contravention of section 36.1 in respect of a unit of assessment entered or required to be entered on the roll;
(9) prescribe the enumeration used to determine the population of a local municipality for the purposes of a regulation made under this Act and authorize the Minister to determine the population of a local municipality for such purposes in the case where the establishment of a local municipality, a change in a municipal territory, an amalgamation or an annexation has occurred since the enumeration used was made;
(10) prescribe, for the single-use immovables of an industrial or institutional nature that it defines, a method of assessment consistent with the provisions of section 44; the method may vary according to the classes of immovables it determines;
(11) determine the scope of any provision of Division IV of Chapter V by listing the immovables which, in accordance with the provision, must or must not be entered on the property assessment roll;
(12) determine the structural members of wharves or port facilities that, where they belong to a public body, are not to be entered on the roll under section 64.1;
(12.1) (paragraph repealed);
(13) define, for the purposes of section 244.68, “telephone service” and “client”, determine, for each telephone service, the amount of the tax referred to in that section or the rules to establish the tax, determine the date from which the tax is imposed and determine the date from which any amendment to the by-law is to take effect;
(14) determine the terms and conditions for the collection and the remittance provided for in section 244.71, in particular the sum the telephone service provider keeps for administrative costs, and determine the provisions of the regulation the contravention of which is punishable by a fine, and the amount of the fine;
(15) determine the terms and conditions for the remittance provided for in section 244.72, in particular the sum the Minister of Revenue keeps for administrative costs;
(16) for the purposes of section 231.3.1, determine the terms for establishing the maximum taxable value of the land of any agricultural operation that is registered in accordance with section 36.0.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (chapter M-14) and that is included in an agricultural zone established under the Act respecting the preservation of agricultural land and agricultural activities (chapter P-41.1).