87. The corporation shall prepare its budget each year for the ensuing fiscal year and send it before 1 August to the clerk or the secretary-treasurer of each municipality whose territory is subject to its jurisdiction, for adoption by by-law each municipal council concerned.
The intermunicipal transit corporation shall at the same time indicate to each municipality whose territory is subject to its jurisdiction the amount it must pay following the apportionment provided for in section 85.
The corporation must send a copy of the budget to the Minister of Transport, to the Minister of Municipal Affairs and to the Commission municipale du Québec.
The budget of the corporation is presented to the council of each municipality whose territory is subject to its jurisdiction not later than 1 September at a special meeting called for such purpose.
If all the municipalities the territories of which are subject to the jurisdiction of the corporation so decide, they may amend the budget of the corporation. The budget so amended must be adopted, by by-law, by all the municipalities concerned before 15 October and a copy of it must be sent to the Minister.
If, on 15 October, the budget of the corporation has not been adopted, with or without amendment, by the council of each municipality whose territory is subject to its jurisdiction, or if the corporation disagrees with the budget as amended, an appeal shall lie to the Commission municipale du Québec.
1977, c. 64, s. 87; 1984, c. 38, s. 139.