156. If the council of the responsible body fails to adopt a by-law amending the metropolitan plan, the RCM plan or the interim control by-law to take account of the Minister’s request, the Government may act in the place of the council in accordance with the provisions of this section.
Once the council has failed to act, the Minister shall produce a document describing the planned intervention and the amendments to be made to the metropolitan plan, the RCM plan or the interim control by-law to ensure conformity of the intervention with the metropolitan plan, the RCM plan or the by-law. The Minister shall send a copy of the document to the responsible body and to every municipality whose territory is situated within the territory of the responsible body.
The Minister shall, through a representative, hold one or more public consultation meetings on the document referred to in the second paragraph. The representative shall fix the date, time and place of each meeting.
Not later than 15 days before the day preceding a meeting, the Minister or his representative shall publish, in a newspaper circulated in the territory of the responsible body, a notice of the date, time, place and object of the meeting. The notice shall also include a summary of the document referred to in the second paragraph and mention that a copy of the document may be examined in the office of every municipality whose territory is comprised in the territory of the responsible body.
At such a meeting, the Minister’s representative shall explain the document referred to in the second paragraph and hear the persons and bodies wishing to be heard.
After the meeting or, as the case may be, the last of the meetings, the Government may, by order, adopt a by-law amending the metropolitan plan, the RCM plan or the interim control by-law to ensure conformity of the planned intervention with the metropolitan plan, the RCM plan or the by-law. The by-law adopted by the Government is deemed to have been adopted by the council of the responsible body. As soon as practicable after the adoption of the government order, the Minister shall send a copy of the order and of the by-law to the responsible body. The by-law comes into force on the date mentioned in the government order.
1979, c. 51, s. 156; 1993, c. 3, s. 70; 2002, c. 68, s. 52; 2010, c. 10, s. 82.