M-22.1 - Act respecting the Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du territoire

Section 8 Disposition versions

2024-06-06

8. The Minister may, by regulation, prescribe the training that members of municipal councils must undergo on their role and on the municipal system, and prescribe any condition and procedure concerning participation in such training.

A member of the council of a local municipality must, within 30 days after participating in such training, report his participation to the clerk or the clerk-treasurer of the local municipality, who in turn shall report it to the council.

Every local municipality shall keep up to date on its website a list of the members of its council who have participated in all the training prescribed by regulation.

Where a council member fails to participate in training prescribed by regulation, the clerk or the clerk-treasurer of the local municipality must notify the Commission municipale du Québec in writing of that fact within 30 days.

The Commission municipale du Québec may suspend a council member who, without a serious reason, fails to participate in training prescribed by regulation. The suspension may continue after the expiry of the council member’s term if he is re-elected in an election held during the suspension and that suspension has not expired on the day the council member’s new term begins. The suspension ends following a decision of the Commission municipale du Québec stating that the council member has participated in the program.

When suspended, the council member may not perform any duty related to the office of warden, mayor or councillor and, in particular, may not sit on any council, committee or commission of the municipality or, in his capacity as member of a council of a municipality, on those of another body, nor receive any remuneration, allowance or other sum from the municipality or such a body.

This section applies, with the necessary modifications, to any warden elected in accordance with section 210.29.2 of the Act respecting municipal territorial organization (chapter O-9) as well as to the regional county municipality of which he is the warden.

1984, c. 40, s. 8; 1999, c. 43, s. 6; 2024, c. 24, s. 158.

1999-10-27

8. (Repealed).

1984, c. 40, s. 8; 1999, c. 43, s. 6.

1985-01-01

8. The Minister shall devise policies on the activities of the department and propose them to the Government. He shall supervise and coordinate their execution.

1984, c. 40, s. 8.