444. Where the full amount of expenditures of the Council incurred to ensure the upgrading of education in economically disadvantaged areas of school boards for the payment of which a school tax is levied under section 434 exceeds the difference between the total amount of expenditure of the school boards on the island of Montréal for the payment of which a tax is levied under section 434.1 and the aggregate of the amounts obtained by making, for each school board on the island of Montréal, the computations provided for in the second and third paragraphs of section 308 or where such amount brings the taxation rate of the tax above $0.35 per $100 of the standardized assessment of immovables taxable by the Council, the tax levied by the Council shall be submitted to the electors of the school boards on the island of Montréal for approval in accordance with sections 345 to 353.
The resolution approving the surtax referred to in the first paragraph shall determine the apportionment of the amount exceeding the maximum amount prescribed in the said paragraph among the school boards on the island of Montréal and the Council and be adopted by the vote of two-thirds of the members of the Council.
For the purposes of sections 345 to 353 of this Act and of the provisions of the Act respecting school elections (chapter E-2.3) applicable to the holding of a referendum, the director general of the Council shall act ex officio as returning officer; where he is unable to act, the person designated by the Council shall exercise the functions and powers of the returning officer.
1988, c. 84, s. 444; 1990, c. 8, s. 51; 1990, c. 28, s. 16; 1990, c. 78, s. 54.