Urban agglomerations in Quebec

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An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006.

Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual municipalities.

History

The 2000–06 municipal reorganization in Quebec proved to be controversial in several municipalities, and in the aftermath, several municipalities voted in a 2004 referendum to reverse their amalgamation. However the supralocal urban agglomeration level of government was retained over each formerly merged region.

Definition

The Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations defines the expression urban agglomeration as follows.

An urban agglomeration corresponds to the territory, as it exists on 17 December 2004, of Ville de Montréal, Ville de Québec, Ville de Longueuil, Ville de Mont-Laurier, Ville de La Tuque, Municipalité des Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Ville de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Ville de Mont-Tremblant, Ville de Cookshire-Eaton, Ville de Rivière-Rouge or Ville de Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel.

One municipality in each agglomeration is known as the central municipality and has special status under the Act. The others are called related municipalities.

The Act defines the powers exercised by the agglomeration and those exercised by the reconstituted municipalities, known as agglomeration powers (compétences d'agglomération) and local powers (compétences de proximité).

Agglomeration councils

Agglomeration powers are exercised by agglomeration councils (conseils d'agglomération).

Agglomeration powers

These are defined by statute. Many governmental functions are performed by the central city in each agglomeration; for example, the Montreal city police (SPVM) have jurisdiction in the neighboring communities.

Local powers

A list of these can be found on the website [1] of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et régionales.

List of constituent municipalities

For each agglomeration, the legally designated central municipality appears first.

Urban agglomeration of Montreal (administered by the Montreal Agglomeration Council)
Urban agglomeration of Quebec City
Urban agglomeration of Longueuil
Urban agglomeration of Mont-Laurier
- Ville de Mont-Laurier
- Municipalité de Saint-Aimé-du-Lac-des-Îles
Urban agglomeration of La Tuque
- Ville de La Tuque
- Municipalité de La Bostonnais
- Municipalité de Lac-Édouard
Urban agglomeration of Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Municipalité des Îles-de-la-Madeleine
- Municipalité de Grosse-Île
Urban agglomeration of Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
- Ville de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts
- Municipalité d'Ivry-sur-le-Lac
Urban agglomeration of Mont-Tremblant
- Ville de Mont-Tremblant
- Municipalité de Lac-Tremblant-Nord
Urban agglomeration of Cookshire-Eaton
- Ville de Cookshire-Eaton
- Municipalité de Newport
Urban agglomeration of Rivière-Rouge
- Ville de Rivière-Rouge
- Municipalité de La Macaza
Urban agglomeration of Sainte-Marguerite–Estérel
- Ville de Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson
- Ville d'Estérel

References

External links

Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations

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