1175.38. A person or partnership that is required to pay a tax provided for in section 222 of the Act respecting municipal taxation (chapter F-2.1) in a fiscal period, in relation to an electric power production system the person or partnership operates, and that consumes all the electric power the person or partnership produces is exempt from the public utility tax for the calendar year in which the fiscal period ends. A person or partnership that is required to pay a tax provided for in section 222 of the Act respecting municipal taxation in a fiscal period, in relation to an electric power production system the person or partnership operates, and that sells part of the electric power the person or partnership produces is required to pay the public utility tax for a calendar year to the extent that the amount of that tax exceeds the amount of the tax provided for in that section 222 that the person or partnership is required to pay in the fiscal period that ends in the calendar year.
For the purposes of this section, the power consumed by a person or partnership related to the person or partnership that produces it is deemed to be consumed by the latter person or partnership.