C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

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800. (Repealed).
M.C. 1916, a. 522; 1921, c. 108, s. 1; 1922 (2nd sess.), c. 86, s. 2; 1925, c. 36, s. 11; 1948, c. 49, s. 4; 1951-52, c. 62, s. 1; 1982, c. 63, s. 52; 1996, c. 2, s. 361; 2005, c. 6, s. 214.
800. Every local municipality may order that all municipal roads, bridges and watercourses, whether local or, in the case of watercourses, regional, for which the ratepayers are liable and which are situated in its territory, shall be made, built, improved, repaired, and maintained or be maintained only by the municipality and at its expense out of moneys levied by means of direct taxation for such purpose on all the taxable property in its territory.
The municipality may, however, except and leave at the charge of the persons who are bound to do work thereon, front roads as well as roads or bridges leading exclusively to ferries or toll-bridges, front roads ditches, and watercourses.
The municipality may also except and leave at the charge of the proprietors and of the persons, who are bound to do the work thereon, the maintenance of the winter roads.
The municipality may enact that the ratepayers or a category of them shall be indemnified, to the extent and in the manner it may determine, for work done in the past by them and their auteurs or at their cost and at that of their auteurs.
This article does not apply to the roads referred to in article 736.
No by-law under this article shall come into force until 1 January following its publication.
However, the Government may, at the request of the council, order the coming into force of the by-law on an earlier date than that fixed by the sixth paragraph but later than the one hundred and twentieth day after its publication.
M.C. 1916, a. 522; 1921, c. 108, s. 1; 1922 (2nd sess.), c. 86, s. 2; 1925, c. 36, s. 11; 1948, c. 49, s. 4; 1951-52, c. 62, s. 1; 1982, c. 63, s. 52; 1996, c. 2, s. 361.
800. Every local corporation may order that all local or county municipal roads, bridges, or watercourses for which the ratepayers are liable and which are situate within the local municipality, shall be made, built, improved, repaired, and maintained or be maintained only by and at the charge of the corporation out of moneys levied by means of direct taxation for such purpose on all the taxable property in the municipality.
The corporation may, however, except and leave at the charge of the persons who are bound to do work thereon, front roads as well as roads or bridges leading exclusively to ferries or toll-bridges, front roads ditches, and watercourses.
The corporation may also except and leave at the charge of the proprietors and of the persons, who are bound to do the work thereon, the maintenance of the winter roads.
The corporation may enact that the ratepayers or a category of them shall be indemnified, to the extent and in the manner it may determine, for work done in the past by them and their auteurs or at their cost and at that of their auteurs.
This article does not apply to the roads referred to in article 736.
No by-law under this article shall come into force until 1 January following its publication.
However, the Government may, at the request of the council, order the coming into force of the by-law on an earlier date than that fixed by the sixth paragraph but later than the 120th day after its publication.
M.C. 1916, a. 522; 1921, c. 108, s. 1; 1922 (2nd sess.), c. 86, s. 2; 1925, c. 36, s. 11; 1948, c. 49, s. 4; 1951-52, c. 62, s. 1; 1982, c. 63, s. 52.