96.0.1. The Community has the competence, for the object of improving the quality of water sites and promoting access thereto, to order, by by-law, development works on the beds, including the banks or shores and the lands bordering thereon, of the lakes and watercourses situated in its territory, and works to control their water-level.
The Community may execute the works on its own immovables or, according to law, on immovables forming part of the domain of the State where works are executed both on its immovables and on an immovable forming part of the domain of the State at once.
1985, c. 3, s. 6; 1999, c. 40, s. 69.