Owner’s obligation to make a street when disposing of land as building sites

(1) If the owner of any land utilizes, sells, leases or otherwise disposes of such land or any portion or portions of the same as sites for the construction of buildings, he shall, save in such cases as the site or sites may abut on an existing public or private street, lay out and make a street or streets giving access to the site or sites and connecting with an existing public or private street.

1. (2) In regard to the laying out or making of any such street or streets, the provisions of section 267 shall apply.
2. (3) If, in any case, the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) have not been complied with the Commissioner may, by notice, require the defaulting owner to lay out and make a street or streets, on such land, in such manner and within such time as may be specified in the notice.
3. (4) If such street or streets are not laid out and made in the manner and within the time specified in the notice, the Commissioner may lay out and make the street or streets and the expenses incurred shall be paid by the defaulting owner.
4. (5) The Commissioner may, in his discretion, issue the notice referred to in sub-section (3) or recover the expenses to in sub-section (4) to or from the owners of any building or lands abutting on the street or streets concerned, but any such owner shall be entitled to recover all reasonable expenses incurred by him or all expenses paid by him, as the case may be, from the defaulting owner referred to in sub-section (3).