S-2.4 - Act respecting civil protection to promote disaster resilience

Section 23 Disposition versions

2024-05-28

23. Subject to compliance with the measures taken under section 57 of this Act or section 123 of the Public Health Act (chapter S-2.2) and despite any provision to the contrary, the local municipality or any person authorized to act under the state of emergency may, without delay and without formality, to protect human life, health or integrity,

(1)  control access to roads or to the territory concerned or make them subject to special rules;

(2)  order, where there is no alternative means of protection, the evacuation of persons or their sheltering, including their confinement;

(3)  require the services of any person capable of assisting the personnel deployed;

(4)  requisition, in the municipality’s territory, the necessary rescue services and private shelter facilities;

(5)  grant, for the time the municipality or the authorized person considers necessary for the rapid and efficient conduct of emergency response measures, authorizations or exemptions in fields under the municipality’s jurisdiction; and

(6)  make the expenditures and enter into the contracts the municipality or the authorized person considers necessary.

While the state of emergency is in effect, and in exceptional circumstances, the Minister may, to protect human life, health or integrity, exercise a power provided for in subparagraphs 1 to 4 of the first paragraph or ensure that an order given under those subparagraphs is maintained.

2024, c. 18, s. 1.