13. The Minister or any officer of the Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources, and every person accompanying any one of them or who is duly authorized by the Minister, may enter upon and pass over any private property if necessary to do so in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by this act or any other act the carrying out of which is entrusted to the Minister.
Any one who prevents a person contemplated in the preceding paragraph or a land surveyor entrusted by the Minister with making surveys from exercising his duties and anyone who removes, alters or changes the place of a boundary marker or a survey or geodetic reference mark which such person or land surveyor has set in place, commits an offence and is liable, on summary proceeding, for each offence, in addition to the costs, to a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $2 000.
R. S. 1964, c. 92, s. 17; 1974, c. 28, s. 5; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 81, s. 20.