C-14 - Railway Act

Section 77 Disposition versions

1989-05-17

77. (Repealed).

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 77; 1988, c. 57, s. 86.

1977-12-31

77. Any railway company failing to comply with the requirements of section 76, within twenty days after it has been required to comply with the same, by notice from the mayor or chief officer of the county or rural municipality in which the land or ground lies, or from a justice of the peace therein, shall incur a penalty of $2, to the use of the municipality, for each day during which it neglects to do anything which it is lawfully required by such notice to do.

The mayor, chief officer or justice of the peace, may cause all things to be done, which the said company was lawfully required to do by such notice, and, for that purpose, may enter by himself and his assistants or workmen upon such lands, and may recover the expenses and charges incurred in so doing, and the said penalty, with costs of suit, in any court having jurisdiction in civil cases to the amount sought to be recovered.

R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 77.