710. A local corporation and the county corporation where it is situated may, by a by-law approved by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and the Commission municipale du Québec, sign an agreement to enable the county corporation, on the conditions mentioned therein, to establish and maintain, in conformity with this Title, a retirement pension fund for the benefit of the full time officers and employees of the local corporation.
The parties to an agreement contemplated by this article may provide therein that any other local corporation whose territory forms part of that of the county corporation may join the agreement.
An agreement which provides that it may be joined must determine, or provide a mechanism for determining, all or part of the conditions of joining. Such conditions are effective notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of any general or special Act.
A local corporation, by resolution of its council, may join an agreement which provides therefor, on the conditions determined by or pursuant to the agreement.
A corporation which joins an agreement must transmit, for approval, a copy of the resolution and, where such is the case, a statement of the conditions not determined in the agreement, to the Minister of Municipal Affairs, to the Commission municipale du Québec and to the Régie des rentes du Québec if joining the agreement entails an amendment to the by-law contemplated in article 704.
Not less than 30 days before sending the documents provided for in the fifth paragraph, the corporation must send the same documents to each party to the agreement.
The corporation becomes a party to the agreement once the resolution and, where such is the case, the conditions of joining not determined in the agreement have received every required approval. The agreement and, if such is the case, the by-law contemplated in article 704, are then deemed amended accordingly.
1979, c. 36, s. 42; 1982, c. 63, s. 51.