C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 555 Disposition versions

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

(1)  to prevent any person from setting off fireworks or fire-crackers, discharging fire-arms, or lighting fires in the open air, in the streets or roads, or in the neighbourhood of a building, grove or fence;

(2)  to prescribe how and where stoves, grates and stove pipes may be placed, and the manner of making chimneys, furnaces and ovens of every description, and to regulate their use;

(3)  to encourage, establish and maintain fire companies for the protection of property;

(4)  to oblige persons wishing to erect in the future a saw mill or carpentry shop worked by machinery operated by steam or electricity, or by gasoline or crude oil motive power, to notify the municipal council of their intention of so doing. Within the 30 days following said notification the council may, by resolution, object to the erecting of said saw mill or carpentry shop, and in the event of the municipal council so objecting, the said saw mill or carpentry shop shall not be erected.

Any interested party may appeal from such decision to the Director General of Fire Prevention appointed under the Fire Prevention Act (chapter P-23) who shall have full power to enquire into all facts relating thereto and to decide accordingly;

(5)  (a)  to require the owner of a dwelling to instal therein one or several of the following apparatuses or devices: a smoke detector, a heat detector, an alarm system, an automatic sprinkler, a fire extinguisher, a fire hose, any other fire warning, fire extinguishing or fire fighting apparatus or device, or a fire escape;

(b)  to require a level of quality for any apparatus or device it requires to be installed, particularly by reference to standards prescribed or approval given by a third person;

(c)  to prescribe the place in a dwelling where each apparatus or device must be installed;

(d)  to grant to the owner of a dwelling a subsidy to cover the whole or part of the cost of installing an apparatus or a device, on such conditions as it may determine;

(e)  to require the owner, lessee or occupant of a dwelling to keep the apparatus or device in good working order;

(f)  to prescribe upkeep or installation standards for the apparatus or devices, particularly by reference to standards prescribed by a third person;

(g)  to establish categories of dwellings, apparatuses or devices and to prescribe different rules for each category;

(6)  to prohibit the erection and installation of chimneys, hearths, fireplaces, stoves, stovepipes, ovens, boilers and any other appliance the use of which may be dangerous, and order the removal thereof;

(7)  to prohibit the depositing of ashes or the accumulation of shavings, waste or other inflammable matter in places where their deposit or accumulation may be dangerous;

(8)  (a)  to impose minimum standards of quality for any domestic, commercial or industrial heating or cooking appliance or equipment, in particular, by reference to standards prescribed or approval given by a third person;

(b)  to prescribe installation and maintenance standards for the appliance or equipment, in particular, by reference to standards prescribed by a third person;

(c)  to establish classes of immovables, appliances or equipment and enact different rules for each of them.

M.C. 1916, a. 407; 1924, c. 85, s. 1; 1949, c. 59, s. 62; 1973, c. 38, s. 90; 1979, c. 36, s. 31; 1982, c. 63, s. 33; 1983, c. 57, s. 17.