C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 546 Disposition versions

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546. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:

(1)  to define what constitutes a nuisance, to suppress the same and to impose fines upon persons who create nuisances or allow them to continue to exist;

(2)  to decree that for the owner, lessee or occupant of a vacant or partly built lot or land to leave upon such lot or land one or more motor vehicles built more than seven years previously, having no markers for the current year and in such a condition that they cannot be driven, to allow branches, brush or weeds to grow on such lot or land or to leave scrap iron, rubbish, refuse, paper, empty bottles or noxious substances thereon constitutes a nuisance; to impose fines on the owner, lessee or occupant who permits such nuisances on such lots or land, or to take or impose any measure intended to eliminate or prevent such nuisances.

The court pronouncing sentence may, in addition to the fines and costs, order the removal of the nuisances which were the subject of the infringement within the delay it fixes, by the owner, lessee or occupant, and on failure by such person to comply within such delay, the removal of the nuisances by the corporation at the expense of such person.

For the purposes of this paragraph, the expression “motor vehicle” means any vehicle within the meaning of the Highway Security Code (chapter C-24.1);

(3)  to compel the owners or occupants of houses, stores and industrial establishments to clean and sanitate such buildings, as well as their cellars, drains, cattle-sheds, stables, piggeries, out-houses, privies and the yards connected with such buildings, at such time and in such manner as the council deems expedient;

(4)  to regulate the construction of gas-works, tanneries, candle or soap factories, distilleries and other manufactories which may become public nuisances, or to prohibit the construction of such establishments or slaughter-houses;

(5)  to compel the owners or occupants of land, whether under cultivation or not, to contribute towards the destruction of grasshoppers and those destructive insects and plant diseases to which the Plant Protection Act (chapter P-39) applies, in such manner and at such times as the council may determine.

M.C. 1916, a. 404; 1921, c. 106, s. 1; 1929, c. 25, s. 1; 1929, c. 90, s. 1; 1979, c. 36, s. 28; 1981, c. 7 s. 536; 1982, c. 2, s. 15; 1982, c. 63, s. 31; 1982, c. 64, s. 2.