Trespass Act - Quebec

TRESPASS ON THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS AND DAMAGE CAUSED THERETO

Except in the discharge of any duty imposed by law, no person shall enter upon or pass over the land or beach land belonging to any person, without permission of the owner or his representative, under penalty of a fine of not less than $5 to $100.It shall be lawful, nevertheless, to make use of any river or watercourse, lake, pond or stream in which or to the maintenance of which one or more persons are interested or bound, and the banks thereof, for the conveyance of all kinds of lumber, and for the passage of all boats, ferries and canoes, subject to the charge of repairing, as soon as possible, all damage resulting from the exercise of such right, and all fences, drains or ditches damaged.

Whosoever, during the day, upon the land or beach belonging to any other person, leaves any gate open, takes down, cuts, breaks, removes or damages any fence, cuts or destroys any hedge, cuts, shatters, breaks down, removes or damages any tree, shrub or plant, removes any canoe, craft, ferry or boat from the bank of any river or other place, or burns or removes from such property any wood, shall incur a penalty of not less than one nor more than $6, if such offence be committed during the night, the penalty shall be doubled; and, in either case, the offender may be also condemned to pay damages.

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