345. The following activities are exempted from authorization pursuant to this Division:(1) the following silvicultural treatments:(a) silvicultural treatments carried out in a wooded wetland, except silvicultural drainage;
(b) silvicultural treatments to reforest and maintain a parcel of abandoned agricultural land, including the initial tree clearing required but excluding silvicultural drainage;
(2) the dismantling of a main residential building, its accessory buildings and works and necessary access;
(3) in a wooded wetland situated in the bioclimatic domains of balsam fir stands with paper birch and black spruce stands with moss, in the case of a main residential building not connected to a waterworks system or a sewer system authorized under the Act, the siting, reconstruction, relocation, enlargement or other substantial modification to such a building, its accessory buildings and works and necessary access, on an area of not more than 3,000 m2;
(4) in connection with a forest development activity carried out in a wooded wetland, the burying of pipes to carry sap and the associated wires.
For the purposes of subparagraphs 2, 3 and 4 of the first paragraph, activities carried out in a wetland that is situated in a flood zone are not exempted when they are not eligible for a declaration of compliance or exempted from ministerial authorization pursuant to Division III of Chapter I of Title IV of Part II.
871-2020O.C. 871-2020, s. 345; 1369-2021O.C. 1369-2021, s. 311; 1596-2021O.C. 1596-2021, s. 8011; 985-2023O.C. 985-2023, s. 191.