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C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec
Section 566
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566. (Repealed).
566. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal a by-law to enact that no penal proceedings may be instituted under a municipal by-law relating to traffic, parking or public safety, without the secretary-treasurer’s having sent by mail to the owner or operator of the vehicle, a notice of summons describing the infraction and indicating the minimum penalty and also the place where such penalty, plus an additional $5 for costs, may be paid within the delay prescribed in the by-law.
The payment of the amount required within the delay fixed by the notice precludes the institution of penal proceedings.
However, such payment may not be invoked as an admission of civil responsibility.
After such payment, the accused is considered to have been convicted of the infraction. However, if the infraction involves the suspension or cancellation of a permit or a registration certificate, the accused may, if not so informed thereof in the notice, renounce the immunity from prosecution resulting from the payment and thus render his admission of guilt void.
566. Every local corporation may make, amend or repeal a by-law to enact that no penal proceedings may be instituted under a municipal by-law relating to traffic, parking or public safety, without the secretary-treasurer’s having sent by mail to the owner or operator of the vehicle, a notice of summons describing the infraction and indicating the minimum penalty and also the place where such penalty, plus an additional $5 for costs, may be paid within the delay prescribed in the by-law.
The payment of the amount required within the delay fixed by the notice precludes the institution of penal proceedings.
However, such payment may not be invoked as an admission of civil responsibility.
After such payment, the accused is considered to have been found guilty of the infraction. However, if the infraction involves the suspension or cancellation of a permit or a registration certificate, the accused may, if not so informed thereof in the notice, renounce the immunity from prosecution resulting from the payment and thus render his admission of guilt void.
