C-14 - Railway Act

Section 224 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

224. Any provisions contained in a general or special act to the contrary notwithstanding, no municipal council shall pass a by-law authorizing any electric railway company to lay out or construct its railway on, upon or along any public highway, road, street or lane, until written or printed notices of the intended by-law specifying the route to be taken by the railway shall have been previously posted up for one month, in six of the most public places of the municipality, and published weekly for at least four consecutive weeks in some newspaper in the municipality, or, if there be no such newspaper, in a newspaper in a neighbouring municipality, and except upon a majority vote of all the members of the municipal council.

The council shall hear, in person or by counsel, anyone desiring to be heard, whose property may be prejudicially affected by such proposed electric railway.

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 241.