18. No person, even in the exercise of a power granted him by the Legislature, shall destroy, alter, restore, repair or change in any manner recognized cultural property and, in the case of an immoveable, use it as a backing for a construction, without giving the Minister at least sixty days’ previous notice of his intention and, in the case of an immoveable, transmitting a copy thereof to the clerk or the secretary-treasurer of the municipality where the cultural property is situated.
1972, c. 19, s. 18; 1978, c. 23, s. 4.