70. When the Minister of Transport considers that any road, owing to the agricultural or industrial interests of the region through which it runs or to the traffic and number of vehicles passing over it, is a main communication road, he may, by conforming to the provisions of this division, either order whatever may be necessary to be done for making, repairing, improving or maintaining the same, or have what he has ordered done at the expense of the municipal corporation interested.
R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 77; 1972, c. 54, s. 32.