631.1. Every local municipality may adopt, amend or repeal by-laws to allow traffic to be diverted in streets in the territory of the municipality for the purposes of roadworks, including the removal and clearing of snow, and for any other reason of necessity or emergency, and to grant the competent officers and employees of the municipality the authority and powers necessary for the carrying out of the by-laws made for those purposes, including the removal and conveyance of any vehicle parked where it hinders the work of the municipality, and the towing of such vehicle elsewhere, namely to a garage, at the expense of the owner, with provision that the owner may resume possession of it only upon payment of the actual towing and storage costs.
1985, c. 27, s. 55; 1996, c. 2, s. 315.