97. Notwithstanding the Municipal Aid Prohibition Act (chapter I-15), a municipality may, by by-law of its council and after consulting the advisory committee, grant on the conditions it determines any form of financial or technical assistance to ensure the conservation, maintenance, restoration or enhancement of a designated historic monument situated in its territory and of any immovable situated on a heritage site situated in its territory. A municipality may also grant financial or technical assistance in respect of a recognized or classified cultural immovable property, or in respect of an immovable situated in a historic or natural district, on a classified historic site or in a protected area situated in its territory.
This section does not affect the powers to grant any form of assistance in respect of immovables that a municipality may hold otherwise.