24.1. At least 12 months prior to the expiry of a contract entered into pursuant to this Division to which the municipal body or Aboriginal community in whose territory residual materials are collected and transported is not a party, the producer who is a party to the contract must send a notice to the municipal body or Aboriginal community, indicating the expiry date of the contract and verifying whether the municipal body or Aboriginal community wishes, from that date, to be a party to a contract of the same type covering, as a minimum, residential buildings with less than 9 dwellings in that territory. The municipal body or Aboriginal community has one month from the date of receipt of the notice to indicate to the producer whether it wishes to enter into such a contract.
If the municipal body or Aboriginal community indicates an interest, the producer must give it priority for entering into a future new contract and take steps to enter into a contract with it for the collection and transportation of residual materials in its territory, within the time and on the terms and conditions provided for in this Division for such a contract.
1365-2023O.C. 1365-2023, s. 151.