96. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the municipalities whose territories are included in the territory of the Community shall retain their competence in the fields listed in section 93 and in all or part of a field declared to be within the competence of the Community under section 95, until the Community exercises its competence in relation to such fields and to the extent that the Community has refrained from doing so.
Every provision of a by-law of a municipality in the territory of the Community contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of a by-law of the Community on any field referred to in the first paragraph immediately ceases to have effect.
1969, c. 83, s. 108; 1978, c. 103, s. 22; 1998, c. 31, s. 74.