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Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

Section 45.3.3
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45.3.3. When the Minister, after inquiry made on his own initiative or upon the application of anyone interested, considers that necessity or advantage requires that two or more municipalities have water management or treatment services in common, he may prescribe the necessary measures.
He may in particular order:
(1)  that the execution, maintenance and operation of the works be done jointly by all the municipalities concerned or in whole or in part by a single municipality, or
(2)  that the works in the territory of one or more of such municipalities be used, or
(3)  that the service be furnished in whole or in part by one municipality to the other or others.
In all such cases, the Minister may establish the cost and apportionment of the cost of the works and the maintenance and operating costs and the mode of payment or fix the indemnity, periodic or otherwise, payable for the use of the works or for the service provided by a municipality.
1972, c. 49, s. 35; 1974, c. 51, s. 5; 1979, c. 49, s. 27; 1996, c. 2, s. 831; 2017, c. 4, s. 67.
35. When the Minister, after inquiry made on his own initiative or upon the application of anyone interested, considers that necessity or advantage requires that two or more municipalities have a common waterworks, sewer system or water treatment plant, he may prescribe the necessary measures.
He may in particular order:
(1)  that the execution, maintenance and operation of the works be done jointly by all the municipalities concerned or in whole or in part by a single municipality, or
(2)  that the works in the territory of one or more of such municipalities be used, or
(3)  that the service be furnished in whole or in part by one municipality to the other or others.
In all such cases, the Minister may establish the cost and apportionment of the cost of the works and the maintenance and operating costs and the mode of payment or fix the indemnity, periodic or otherwise, payable for the use of the works or for the service provided by a municipality.
1972, c. 49, s. 35; 1974, c. 51, s. 5; 1979, c. 49, s. 27; 1996, c. 2, s. 831.
35. When the Minister, after inquiry made on his own initiative or upon the application of anyone interested, considers that necessity or advantage requires that two or more municipalities have a common waterworks, sewer system or water treatment plant, he may prescribe the necessary measures.
He may in particular order:
(1)  that the execution, maintenance and operation of the works be done jointly by all the municipalities concerned or in whole or in part by a single municipality, or
(2)  that the works in one or more of such municipalities be used, or
(3)  that the service be furnished in whole or in part by one municipality to the other or others.
In all such cases, the Minister may establish the cost and apportionment of the cost of the works and the maintenance and operating costs and the mode of payment or fix the indemnity, periodic or otherwise, payable for the use of the works or for the service provided by a municipality.
1972, c. 49, s. 35; 1974, c. 51, s. 5; 1979, c. 49, s. 27.
35. When the Director, after inquiry made on his own initiative or upon the application of anyone interested, considers that necessity or advantage requires that two or more municipalities or parts of different municipalities have a common waterworks, sewer system or water treatment plant, he may prescribe the necessary measures.
He may in particular order:
(1)  that the execution, maintenance and operation of the works be done jointly by all the municipalities concerned or in whole or in part by a single municipality, or
(2)  that the works in one or more of such municipalities be used, or
(3)  that the service be furnished in whole or in part by one municipality to the other or others.
In all such cases, the Director may, establish the cost and apportionment of the cost of the works and the maintenance and operating costs and the mode of payment or fix the indemnity, periodic or otherwise, payable for the use of the works or for the service provided by a municipality.
1972, c. 49, s. 35; 1974, c. 51, s. 5.
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