18. If fewer than three city councillors, including the borough chair, are prescribed for a borough, the number of borough councillors required so that the borough council is made up of three members shall be elected in the borough, to sit only on the council of that borough.
However, in the borough of Verdun, the borough of Saint-Léonard, the borough of Saint-Laurent, the borough of Montréal-Nord and the borough of LaSalle, the borough council shall include, until the first general election following the general election of 4 November 2001, two borough councillors in addition to the three city councillors.
A borough councillor is an elected municipal officer.
Notwithstanding section 70 of the Cities and Towns Act (chapter C-19), a borough councillor may be appointed by the city council to be a member of a committee of the city council.
2000, c. 56, Sch. I, s. 18; 2001, c. 25, s. 244; 2002, c. 37, s. 42.