97. Whenever a road which the Minister of Transport maintains is exposed to be deteriorated or damaged by reason of the bad conditions of a line ditch or of a watercourse, the Minister of Transport may notify the persons interested in such ditch or watercourse, or the municipal corporation having jurisdiction, to dig, repair or clean the same.
If the required work is not done within fifteen days after the notice, the Minister of Transport may cause it to be done, and the Attorney General, representing Her Majesty in the rights of Québec, may recover the cost thereof, either from the persons interested or from the municipal corporation having jurisdiction, by ordinary suit.
R. S. 1964, c. 133, s. 99; 1972, c. 54, s. 32.