77. If it be found necessary or deemed proper to lay any of the pipes or to carry any of the works of the company through the lands of any person, lying within 16 kilometres of any municipal territory for the supplying of which the company is constituted as a legal person, and the consent of such person cannot be obtained for that purpose, the company may institute expropriation proceedings.
R. S. 1964, c. 285, s. 77; 1977, c. 60, s. 39; 1996, c. 2, s. 587; 1999, c. 40, s. 73.