In force: 2020-12-31
335. The following maintenance work on a watercourse is eligible for a declaration of compliance:(1) work to clean a watercourse over a total linear distance of 500 m of less on the same watercourse, when carried out by a municipality, on the following conditions:(a) the watercourse has been drained, or its bed has an initial width of 1 m or less, and it has already been laid out in a way that changes its geometry in accordance with an agreement, municipal by-law or authorization;
(b) the last cleaning work, if any, on the section of the watercourse concerned was completed more than 5 years previously;
(c) the work is not carried out in the inner protection zone of a category 1 surface water withdrawal site;
(d) cleaning work has not been performed on the watercourse concerned under a declaration of compliance within the last 12 months;
(2) work to clean a watercourse that follows the bed of a ditch along a public road, when carried out by the minister responsible for the Act respecting roads (chapter V-9); (3) cleaning work when carried out by a municipality or the minister responsible for the Act respecting roads in a ditch located in the littoral zone, if no wetland is present, in addition to the conditions set out in paragraph 5 of section 323, on the following conditions:(a) the work is carried out over a distance of not more than 100 m if carried out in the channel of the ditch;
(b) the work on the point of discharge is limited to a surface of 30 m2.
When the declaration of compliance is sent to the Minister, a copy must also be sent to the regional county municipalities whose territory lies within the watershed of the watercourse concerned.
871-2020O.C. 871-2020, s. 335.