M-24.1 - Act respecting the Ministère des Forêts

Section 14 Disposition versions

1991-01-30

14. The duties of the Minister shall be, more particularly:

(1)  to oversee all aspects of forest management in forests in the public domain;

(2)  to ensure, in forests in the public domain, the compatibility of forest management activities with the uses provided for in land use plans referred to in Division III of Chapter II of the Act respecting the lands in the public domain (chapter T-8.1);

(3)  to encourage the development of private forests;

(4)  to establish, in forests in the public domain, forest management units and to allocate thereto, up to the maximum allowable annual cut and taking account of other available sources of supply, volumes of round timber to supply wood processing plants;

(5)  to carry out, according to law, forest management activities;

(6)  to devise and carry out plans and programs for the conservation, development and processing in Québec of forest resources;

(7)  to devise and implement research and development programs in the fields of forestry and the processing of forest resources;

(8)  to ensure the protection of forest resources against fire, epidemics and diseases and to carry out phytosanitary tests on such resources;

(9)  to contribute to the development, adaptation and modernization of wood processing plants and other activities using timber;

(10)  to encourage the marketing and sale of forest products;

(11)  to ensure the participation of the forestry sector in regional development;

(12)  to enforce legislation relating to forests;

(13)  to perform any other duty assigned to him by the Government with respect to forests.

1990, c. 64, s. 14.