7. The Minister of Transport shall offer successively and by agreement any surplus immovable property to the following people:(1) to the owner of any contiguous immovable property because the surplus immovable property constitutes or should constitute, in whole or in part, the basis of an casement of passage in favour of the contiguous immovable property;
(2) to the owner of any contiguous immovable property from whom the immovable property or part of the surplus immovable property was acquired; to the spouse, children or grandchildren, in the case of a disposal of the contiguous immovable property in their favour;
(3) to the owner of any contiguous immovable property because the surplus immovable property is enclosed;
(4) to the tenant, farm producer within the meaning of the second paragraph of section 12, who has rented the surplus immovable property for at least one year, provided that the immovable property is located in an agricultural zone; and
(5) to the owner of any contiguous immovable property because the total or partial configuration of the surplus immovable property allows consolidation only in favour of the immovable property.
If, pursuant to the first paragraph, several owners or tenants are involved, the surplus immovable property is the subject of an invitation to tender with those people.
For the purposes of this section, any contiguous immovable property is a piece of land one side of which touches a surplus immovable property or that would touch it if it were not separated therefrom by a public road, within the meaning of the second paragraph of section 12, a railway or a public utility right of way.