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National Energy Board Act

Version of section 58.31 from 2002-12-31 to 2005-04-19:


Marginal note:Other facilities crossing power lines

  •  (1) Subject to section 58.33, no person shall, unless leave is first obtained from the Board, construct a facility across, on, along or under an international or interprovincial power line or excavate using power-operated equipment or explosives within thirty metres of such a line.

  • Marginal note:Use of vehicles and mobile equipment

    (2) Subject to section 58.33, no person shall operate a vehicle or mobile equipment across an international or interprovincial power line unless leave is first obtained from the holder of the permit or certificate issued in respect of the line or the vehicle or mobile equipment is operated within the travelled portion of a highway or public road.

  • Marginal note:Terms and conditions

    (3) The Board may, on granting an application for leave under this section, impose such terms and conditions as it considers proper.

  • Marginal note:Directions

    (4) The Board may direct the owner of a facility constructed across, on, along or under a power line in contravention of this Act or the Board’s orders or regulations to do such things as the Board considers necessary for the safety of the power line and may, where the Board considers that the facility may impair the safe operation of the power line, direct the owner to reconstruct, alter or remove the facility.

  • 1990, c. 7, s. 23

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