99(1)Notwithstanding the Mining Act and section 100, a council may make a by-law respecting the safe operation and maintenance of gravel pits being operated within the municipality and gravel pits no longer in operation within the municipality, and may in the by-law prescribe fines for violations of the provisions thereof to a maximum of five hundred dollars for a single violation and one hundred dollars a day for each day that the violation continues.

99(2)Where a council has made a by-law under subsection (1), the council may order any work that it deems necessary for the safety of persons to be done in or around a gravel pit and the expense of the work is a debt owed by the owner of the gravel pit to the municipality.