202. Subject to the second, third, fourth and fifth paragraphs, the representative of a municipality has one vote in the council of the regional county municipality or, as the case may be, the number of votes determined in the order constituting the regional county municipality.
Where the representative of a municipality whose population is greater than half of the population of the regional county municipality has, in accordance with the first paragraph, a number of votes equivalent to at least half of the number of votes that all the representatives have, the representative shall have, for the application of section 201 in respect of a proposal, the number of votes obtained by multiplying, by the percentage that the municipality’s population is of the population of the regional county municipality, the number of votes cast by the other representatives in respect of the proposal.
Where the representative of a municipality has, in accordance with the first paragraph, a number of votes equivalent to a least half of the number of votes that all the representatives have, the representative shall have, for the application of section 210.26 of the Act respecting municipal territorial organization (chapter O-9), the number of votes obtained by multiplying, by the percentage that the municipality’s population is of the population of the regional county municipality, the number of votes that the other representatives have.
Where the number of votes obtained under the second or third paragraph, as the case may be, has a decimal fraction, the decimal fraction is disregarded and, if the first decimal would have been greater than 5, the number is increased by 1.
For the purposes of the second and third paragraphs, the expression “representative of a municipality” also means all the representatives of a municipality if the municipality has more than one representative. In that case, the number of votes obtained under either of those paragraphs shall be apportioned among the representatives in the same proportion as that established under the first paragraph.
A representative may also have a right of veto if the order so provides.
1979, c. 51, s. 202; 1993, c. 65, s. 83; 2001, c. 25, s. 7; 2002, c. 37, s. 28.