When private initiative is lacking or insufficient to ensure the creation or maintenance of a service required to meet the needs of the population in a rural area or in a municipality comprising one or more priority neighbourhoods for urban policy, the municipality may entrust responsibility for creating or managing it to an association governed by the loi du 1er juillet 1901 relative au contrat d’association or to any other person; it may also grant aid, subject to the conclusion with the aid recipient of an agreement setting out the latter’s obligations.
To supplement the aid referred to in the previous paragraph, the municipality may enter into agreements with other relevant local authorities that have the appropriate resources to carry out these actions, particularly financially.