Owner's obligation to make a street when disposing of lands as building sites

("Owner's obligation to make a street when disposing of lands as building sites")

1. (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.
2. (2) The provisions of section 251 shall apply to the laying out or making of any such street.
3. (3) Any owner shall receive a sum which is the estimated cost of lay-out and making, and that the owner is has also to pay ten per cent of the lay-out for the improvement in addition to the area provided for, and any owner contravenes any of the provisions, he shall be liable for prosecution.
4. (4) If the provisions of sub-sections (1) and (2) are not complied with, the commissioner may, by notice, call upon the owner to lay-out and make a street or streets and in such land and in such manner and time as may be specified in the notice. If the street or streets are not laid out and made in accordance with the notice 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 recovered from the landowner.
5. (5) The commissioner may in his discretion, issue the notice referred to in sub-section (3) or recover the expenses referred to in sub-section (4) to or from the owners of any buildings 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).