137.4. Where the council of the regional county municipality withholds approval of the by-law or fails to give its opinion within the time prescribed in section 137.3, the council of the municipality may apply to the Commission for an assessment of the conformity of the by-law with the objectives of the RCM plan and the provisions of the complementary document.
The clerk or the clerk-treasurer of the municipality shall notify to the Commission a certified copy of the resolution requesting the assessment and of the by-law concerned. He shall notify a certified copy of the resolution to the regional county municipality.
The copy notified to the Commission must be received by the Commission within 15 days after a copy of the resolution in which approval of the by-law is withheld is transmitted or, as the case may be, the expiry of the period prescribed in section 137.3.
The first, second and third paragraphs do not apply where the municipality has failed to act under the second paragraph of section 137.3.
1993, c. 3, s. 66; 1996, c. 25, s. 60; 2010, c. 10, s. 113; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP); 2021, c. 312021, c. 31, s. 1321; 2023, c. 122023, c. 12, s. 761.