466. The council may make by-laws:(1) To assist by money, granted or lent, in the construction, repair or maintenance of any road leading to the municipality, or of any bridge or public work, under the direction of the corporation of any municipality;
(2) To acquire, jointly with the municipal corporation of the county in which the municipality is situated, as well as with any other municipality in such county, machines, stone-crushers, rollers and engines for use in the improvement of roads, by-roads and streets within such county and the cities and towns therein; to make arrangements with the city, town, village and rural corporations of the several municipalities situated within such county, for the purpose of allowing them the use thereof for their roads, by-roads and streets, and to fix the price for and the conditions of their use, or to give them the use thereof gratuitously;
(3) To aid in opening up and improving the colonization roads declared by the Gouvernement to be colonization roads of the second or third class, in which the municipality has been declared to be interested, in virtue of any law respecting colonization roads;
(4) To aid in the construction of any bridge, causeway, pier, wharf, slide, macadamized or paved road, railway, or other public works, situated in whole or in part within the municipality or in its vicinity, undertaken and built by any incorporated company, or by the Gouvernement du Québec, or by any person:(a) By taking and subscribing for shares in any company formed for such purpose;
(b) By giving or lending money or securities or by giving the ownership or enjoyment of any immoveable property to such company or to the Gouvernement du Québec or to such person;
(c) By guaranteeing by endorsation or otherwise any sum of money borrowed by such company or by such person;
(d) By exempting from the payment of municipal taxes, assessments and dues, any railway company or companies having a station or stations within the municipality, in accordance with the provisions of the Municipal Tax Exemption Act (chapter E-20);
(5) To subscribe for or hold stock in any company formed for the purpose of constructing telegraph or telephone lines;
(6) To supply money to help in the building of bridges, built with the assistance of the Gouvernement du Québec and according to plans approved by the Ministère des transports, or by the Ministère de l’agriculture, either in the municipality or in any other municipality;
(7) In the same way, to aid in the maintenance of such bridges for the future.