65. Any company may break up, dig and trench so much and so many of the streets, squares, highways, lanes and public places of the municipal territory for supplying which with gas or water, or both, it has been constituted, as are necessary for laying the mains and pipes to conduct the gas or water, or both, from the works of the company to the consumer, doing no unnecessary damage in the premises, and taking care as far as may be to preserve a free and uninterrupted passage through the said streets, squares, highways, lanes and public places, while the works are in progress.
R. S. 1964, c. 285, s. 65; 1996, c. 2, s. 584; 1999, c. 40, s. 73.