71. A contract under which a local municipality entrusts a person with the responsibility for converting its public lighting network and administering and maintaining the network during the period determined in the contract may also stipulate that that person is responsible for financing the cost for the municipality of acquiring the network and for reimbursing the cost through the fees the municipality pays that person in instalments the size and number of which are determined in the contract.
The Municipal Works Act (chapter T-14) does not apply to work carried out under a contract entered into in accordance with the first paragraph.