The Municipal Code of Québec (C-27.1)

The Municipal Code of Québec (CQLR c. C-27.1) — the general statute for local (mainly rural) municipalities and regional county municipalities (RCMs/MRCs). Parsed from the current official LégisQuébec consolidation (retrieved 2026-07). THE SCOPE RULE (art. 1): the Code applies to every municipality subject to any inconsistent charter provision, but does NOT apply to a municipality governed by the Cities and Towns Act (c. C-19) or to northern, Cree or Naskapi villages — so Municipal Code and Cities and Towns Act are parallel regimes, not layers; art. 2 lets a municipality migrate by letters patent, and art. 4 deems a C-19 city to be a Code municipality for RCM purposes. TH…