C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 631 Disposition versions

2006-01-01

631. (Repealed).

M.C. 1916, a. 417; 1982, c. 2, s. 21; 1982, c. 63, s. 45; 1996, c. 2, s. 314; 2005, c. 6, s. 214.

1996-05-08

631. A local municipality may make, amend or repeal by-laws:

(1)  to prohibit the erection or cause the removal, at the expense of the owners or occupants, of any door-steps, stairs, porches, railings, balconies, buildings or other constructions which project beyond the line of the public road, or obstruct public communication, and to compel such owners or occupants to apply for the running of the line of the public highway before building;

(2)  to prohibit the throwing into any public road or lane of any sweepings, filth, dirty water or other ordure, and to order the removal thereof at the expense of the municipality or of those who caused such nuisances;

(3)  to compel the owner or occupant to remove snow and ice from the roofs of houses or other buildings erected on the public highway, and to order the removal thereof by the municipal inspector, at the expense of such owner or occupant who refuses or neglects to do so;

(4)  to prohibit the obstruction of sidewalks, roads and public places;

(5)  to cause the houses and lots situated on the roads in the territory of the municipality to be numbered; to give names to the streets and roads, and to alter the same;

(6)  to have the streets and sidewalks swept, watered and kept clean; and to have the snow removed from the said streets or sidewalks; the whole at the expense of the municipality or by apportionment upon any part of the territory of the municipality;

(7)  to determine the level, line and height of sidewalks, safety and division walls, upon public roads, whenever the council deems it expedient for the convenience, safety or benefit of the inhabitants of the territory of the municipality;

(8)  to acquire, by agreement or by expropriation, perpetual or temporary right of way on any immovable, in favour of a street or public road to which the immovable is adjacent and for the maintenance of which the municipality is responsible, through which access to such street or road from the immovable is prohibited; to order that the servitude applies only to the access of vehicles or a category thereof; to enact that the servitude applies only during certain periods; to establish categories of vehicles and prescribe by-laws for the application of the servitude which differ depending on the categories.

In no case may the municipality acquire a right of way with respect to an immovable under this paragraph if the right of way causes the immovable to be enclosed, or gives access, from that immovable, only to a street or road situated in the territory of another municipality.

In no case may the municipality, without the authorization of the Minister of Transport, avail itself of the provisions of this paragraph with respect to an immovable subject to a no-access servitude acquired by that Minister so as to cause it to be inoperative or to reduce its effect.

M.C. 1916, a. 417; 1982, c. 2, s. 21; 1982, c. 63, s. 45; 1996, c. 2, s. 314.

0001-01-01

631. A local corporation may make, amend or repeal by-laws:

(1)  to prohibit the erection or cause the removal, at the expense of the owners or occupants, of any door-steps, stairs, porches, railings, balconies, buildings or other constructions which project beyond the line of the public road, or obstruct public communication, and to compel such owners or occupants to apply for the running of the line of the public highway before building;

(2)  to prohibit the throwing into any public road or lane of any sweepings, filth, dirty water or other ordure, and to order the removal thereof at the expense of the corporation or of those who caused such nuisances;

(3)  to compel the owner or occupant to remove snow and ice from the roofs of houses or other buildings erected on the public highway, and to order the removal thereof by the municipal inspector, at the expense of such owner or occupant who refuses or neglects to do so;

(4)  to prohibit the obstruction of sidewalks, roads and public places;

(5)  to cause the houses and lots situated on the roads in the municipality to be numbered; to give names to the streets and roads, and to alter the same;

(6)  to have the streets and sidewalks swept, watered and kept clean; and to have the snow removed from the said streets or sidewalks; the whole at the expense of the corporation or by apportionment upon a part of the municipality;

(7)  to determine the level, line and height of sidewalks, safety and division walls, upon public roads, whenever the council deems it expedient for the convenience, safety or benefit of the inhabitants of the municipality;

(8)  to acquire, by agreement or by expropriation, perpetual or temporary right of way on any immovable, in favour of a street or public road to which the immovable is adjacent and for the maintenance of which the municipality is responsible, through which access to such street or road from the immovable is prohibited; to order that the servitude applies only to the access of vehicles or a category thereof; to enact that the servitude applies only during certain periods; to establish categories of vehicles and prescribe by-laws for the application of the servitude which differ depending on the categories.

In no case may the corporation acquire a right of way with respect to an immovable under this paragraph if the right of way causes the immovable to be enclosed, or gives access, from that immovable, only to a street or road situated in another municipality.

In no case may the corporation, without the authorization of the Minister of Transport, avail itself of the provisions of this paragraph with respect to an immovable subject to a no-access servitude acquired by that Minister so as to cause it to be inoperative or to reduce its effect.

M.C. 1916, a. 417; 1982, c. 2, s. 21; 1982, c. 63, s. 45.