190.1(1)In this section “street” includes road, lane or alley or a bridge thereon.

190.1(2)The Minister or persons designated by him, may remove or demolish any building, structure, obstruction or encroachment upon a street, without compensating the owner thereof or of any lands abutting the same.

190.1(3)If any resistance or opposition is made by any person to the removal or demolition authorized under subsection (2), a judge of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick, after notice to show cause given in such manner as the judge prescribes, may issue a warrant to the sheriff for the judicial district within which the street is situated, directing the sheriff to put down the resistance or opposition and to put the Minister or the persons designated by the Minister in possession, and the sheriff shall make a return of the warrant and of the manner in which it was executed to the clerk of The Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick for the judicial district.