8. The council of any local municipality having established a local municipal court and the council of another local municipality having established no such court or which intends to abolish the municipal court it has established or to withdraw its territory from the jurisdiction of such a court may each adopt a by-law to authorize the making of an agreement regarding the establishment of a common municipal court by way of the extension of the territorial jurisdiction of the existing local municipal court.
The first paragraph also applies to any regional county municipality which, for the purposes within its jurisdiction, wishes to submit its territory to the jurisdiction of an existing local municipal court, provided its territory includes the territory of the municipality which established the court.
1989, c. 52, s. 8; 1993, c. 62, s. 1.