249. No holder of a claim, development licence, special licence, special exploration licence, exploration licence, operating lease, exploration licence for underground reservoirs, storage lease, disposal licence, exploration permit, mining lease or mining concession and no owner of mining rights in private lands, may carry out any work on private lands without the consent of the surface owner, except by resorting to expropriation.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 34, s. 221; 1968, c. 36, s. 17; 1970, c. 27, s. 36; 1982, c. 27, s. 9.