A-18.1 - Sustainable Forest Development Act

Section 150 Disposition versions

2013-04-01

150. The protection and development plan includes a survey of forest capability in the territory of the agency and sets out production objectives and recommended management methods, in particular management methods capable of ensuring a sustainable supply of timber. The plan must also include a five-year program outlining the forest protection and development activities fostered by the agency and state the means selected to achieve the objectives.

The plan comes into force in the territory of a regional county municipality if it is consistent with the objectives of the regional county municipality’s land use planning and development plan, within the meaning of the Act respecting land use planning and development (chapter A-19.1). The plan is available for consultation at the agency’s head office or any other place determined by the agency. Any person or body may obtain a copy of all or part of the plan from the agency by paying the necessary fees.

For the purposes of the second paragraph and sections 151 to 156,

(1)  the following are regarded as regional county municipalities:

(a)  Ville de Gatineau, Ville de Laval, Ville de Mirabel and Ville de Lévis;

(b)  Ville de Montréal, Ville de Québec and Ville de Longueuil; and

(c)  the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal and the Communauté métropolitaine de Québec, from the coming into force of their first respective metropolitan land use and development plans;

(2)  the territory of a municipality mentioned in subparagraph b of paragraph 1 is deemed to correspond to the urban agglomeration provided for in any of sections 4 to 6 of the Act respecting the exercise of certain municipal powers in certain urban agglomerations (chapter E-20.001) and the council by which the municipality acts is its urban agglomeration council constituted under that Act;

(3)  any reference to a land use planning and development plan or its objectives is deemed to apply to the metropolitan land use and development plan of a metropolitan community.

2010, c. 3, s. 150; 2010, c. 10, s. 156.