321. The executive committee may make and submit to the Council after consultation with the associations which represent the functionaries and employees mentioned below for the purposes of making collective agreements for approval by by-law, a plan establishing the total or partial integration of the valuation departments, the water treatment departments, the garbage disposal, data-processing and air pollution elimination services of the municipalities to the extent that such integration is necessary for supplying, at the lowest possible cost and with highest possible efficiency, the services of the abovementioned departments to the population of the territory of the Community, and, for such purposes, providing:(1) the stages of such an integration:
(2) the conditions for transferring to the employment of the Community officers and employees assigned to the abovementioned departments of the municipalities in such a way that such officers and employees shall not receive from the Community salaries which are lower or social benefits which are of a lower value than the salaries and social benefits which they receive from the municipalities employing them; the Community shall not assume any actuarial deficit or obligation resulting therefrom incurred by a municipality in respect of a pension plan, a retirement fund or a pension fund for the above officers or employees before the date of the coming into force of such plan; no officer or employee of a municipality shall be discharged or laid off by reason of the putting into force of a plan contemplated in this section;
(3) which property belonging to the municipalities and exclusively assigned by them to the abovementioned departments must be transferred to the Community, and the terms and conditions of such transfers of ownership, in such a way that, as a minimum condition for such transfers, the Community will repay to the municipalities the sums necessary for the service of the debt of any bond issue of such municipalities the proceeds of which have been used for the acquisition, construction or alteration of such property, after deducting any federal or provincial grant;
(4) which property belonging to the municipalities and partly set aside by them to be used for the abovementioned departments must be placed at the disposal of the Community, establishing the terms and conditions according to which such property must be placed at the Community’s disposal;
(5) all other conditions and terms of such plan.
If the integration provided for above is only partial, additional plans may be adopted by following, mutatismutandis, the procedure provided for in this section as well as under sections 322 to 325.
1969, c. 84, s. 354; 1972, c. 73, s. 27; 1974, c. 82, s. 46.