178. The council of a municipality wishing to be attached to another regional county municipality must(1) adopt a by-law authorizing the presentation of a petition to the Minister to that effect, indicating the conditions of its proposed attachment;
(2) send a copy of the by-law to the council of each of the regional county municipalities concerned;
(3) publish in two consecutive issues of the Gazette officielle du Québec a notice setting forth its territorial limits, its population figure and its intention of presenting a petition to the Minister for its attachment to the territory of another regional county municipality which it designates;
(4) give a public notice summarizing the object of the petition and indicating that any person may, within thirty days following the notice, submit his objections to the petition in writing to the Minister.