555.2. Every local municipality, for the object of improving the quality of water sites and promoting access thereto, may make, amend or repeal by-laws to order development works on the beds, including the banks or shores and the lands bordering thereon, of municipal or other lakes and watercourses situated in its territory, and works to control their water-level.
The municipality may execute the works on its own immovables, on any privately owned immovable with the concurrence of the owner or, according to law, on immovables forming part of the domain of the State.
In the case of works on a privately owned immovable, the works constructed become the property of the owner of the immovable, who thereby becomes responsible for their upkeep. If the owner fails to do the upkeep, the local municipality may do it at his expense.
1985, c. 3, s. 2; 1996, c. 2, s. 455; 1999, c. 40, s. 60.