737. (1) Public roads under the control of the Government of Canada or the Gouvernement du Québec, and turnpike roads governed under letters patent or special Acts, or under the law respecting companies for the construction of roads, do not fall under the direction and control of municipal corporations.
(2) Roads and bridges built by the Gouvernement du Québec in a municipality, are at the charge of the local municipality or of the county municipality, as the case may be, in the same manner as all other roads and bridges.
(3) Any municipal corporation has the right to regulate, by procès-verbal or otherwise, any colonization road or bridge built by the Gouvernement du Québec in the municipality, but cannot order it to be closed without the permission of the Minister of Transport.