476. (1) All sums of money not especially appropriated shall form part of the general funds of the municipality.
(2) Any grant made to a municipality and not specially appropriated by the by-law ordering the works or the expenditure may be paid in whole or in part into the general funds of the municipality.
(3) Saving the case provided in section 7 of the Act respecting municipal and school debts and loans (chapter D-7), whenever the municipality has collected a sum exceeding the sum required for the purposes for which such sum was raised, the surplus shall belong to the municipality and shall fall into the general funds thereof.
(4) All sums of money, forming part of the general funds of the municipality, may be employed for any purpose within the jurisdiction of the council.