233. The cost of demolition, repairs, alterations or construction or of restoring land to its former condition incurred by a responsible body or a municipality in the exercise of the powers contemplated in section 232 is a prior claim on the immovable, of the same nature and with the same rank as the claims described in paragraph 5 of article 2651 of the Civil Code; the cost is secured by a legal hypothec on the immovable.
1979, c. 51, s. 233; 1994, c. 30, s. 86; 2010, c. 10, s. 111.