V-8 - Roads Act

Section 30 Disposition versions

1991-01-30

30. When the trunk or branches of a tree growing on land contiguous to a road which the Minister of Transport maintains interfere with traffic, or when their bad condition causes fear of their falling on the public road, and the owner of the tree refuses or neglects to fell the tree or cut such branches, or, in the case of trees planted by the Minister of Transport, refuses permission to go on his land, the Minister of Forests may, at the request of the Minister of Transport, after having given the owner of the land at least fifteen days’ notice, authorize the person named by him in an order signed by him to go on the land and to fell the tree or cut the branches, as the case may be.

Such order shall fix at the same time the compensation, if there be occasion therefor, to be paid to the owner.

R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 37; 1972, c. 54, s. 32; 1973, c. 38, s. 105; 1979, c. 81, s. 20; 1990, c. 64, s. 24.

1980-04-01

30. When the trunk or branches of a tree growing on land contiguous to a road which the Minister of Transport maintains interfere with traffic, or when their bad condition causes fear of their falling on the public road, and the owner of the tree refuses or neglects to fell the tree or cut such branches, or, in the case of trees planted by the Minister of Transport, refuses permission to go on his land, the Minister of Energy and Resources may, at the request of the Minister of Transport, after having given the owner of the land at least fifteen days’ notice, authorize the person named by him in an order signed by him to go on the land and to fell the tree or cut the branches, as the case may be.

Such order shall fix at the same time the compensation, if there be occasion therefor, to be paid to the owner.

R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 37; 1972, c. 54, s. 32; 1973, c. 38, s. 105; 1979, c. 81, s. 20.

1977-12-31

30. When the trunk or branches of a tree growing on land contiguous to a road which the Minister of Transport maintains interfere with traffic, or when their bad condition causes fear of their falling on the public road, and the owner of the tree refuses or neglects to fell the tree or cut such branches, or, in the case of trees planted by the Minister of Transport, refuses permission to go on his land, the Minister of Lands and Forests may, at the request of the Minister of Transport, after having given the owner of the land at least fifteen days’ notice, authorize the person named by him in an order signed by him to go on the land and to fell the tree or cut the branches, as the case may be.

Such order shall fix at the same time the compensation, if there be occasion therefor, to be paid to the owner.

R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 37; 1972, c. 54, s. 32; 1973, c. 38, s. 105.