71. After obtaining information regarding the importance of such road and the means to be taken for making, repairing, improving or maintaining the same, the Minister of Transport may decide in what manner and with what materials the work shall be done, and communicate his decision to the municipal corporation having control of the road, by a notice, sent in a registered or certified envelope addressed to the mayor of such corporation, or to the warden in the case of a county road not at the charge of the local corporation where it is situated.
At the same time, the Minister shall state the estimated cost of the work ordered by him, and the delay within which the same must be begun and finished.
If the Minister orders a road or certain parts of such road to be widened or its course altered, he shall give, with the notice, the description of the land that must be acquired.
R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 78; 1972, c. 54, s. 32; 1975, c. 83, s. 84.