238. Where a responsible body or a municipality fails to do a thing within the period or term granted by this Act, by a regulation or by-law, or by an order, decree, notice, opinion or assessment passed, made or given pursuant to this Act, the Minister may act in its place, and anything he does in that case has the same effect as if the defaulting responsible body or municipality had acted.
The Minister may appoint a representative for the purposes of this section.
The decision of the Minister to exercise or to cease to exercise the powers conferred on him by this section has effect immediately; notice of it shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec within 15 days.
1979, c. 51, s. 238; 2003, c. 19, s. 48; 2010, c. 10, s. 97, s. 111.