10. Whenever the building or rebuilding of a highway or bridge has been decreed by order of the Government, the Minister of Transport may:(1) Determine the course or site thereof and do all the preliminary work therefor;
(2) Take possession of any road whether subject or not to municipal authority;
(3) Settle what the work of building or rebuilding shall be, and what ought to be classified as part of the cost of such building or rebuilding;
(4) Determine and change the direction, width, outline and level of such highway, the site, dimensions, materials and manner of construction of such highway or bridge and of the roadway, embankments, drains, guard walls and other work forming part thereof; deviate and alter watercourses and ditches crossing or parallelling such road; for the drainage of such road, direct and dig watercourses and ditches, lay drains and sewage canals across and along such highway and across any land; remove all posts and conduits;
(5) Establish parking zones, service areas, rest areas, lookouts, pavilions, bicycle paths, hiking trails and any other protection, safety or embellishment works;
(6) Acquire, by mutual agreement or by expropriation, any immoveable deemed necessary for such purposes or to give access to properties isolated from the road, to re-establish the situation of divided land, to allow of the removal of constructions or to reduce the cost of effecting the acquisition of the site;
(7) Transfer, lease, exchange any property so established or acquired or dispose thereof in such a manner as he may deem appropriate, when it is no longer needed.