15. Any person or partnership, with the exception of a member of the Bar or a notary, or the officer authorized to collect the registration dues or fees for the declaration required under this Act, who, by means of verbal or written representations, endeavours to obtain or obtains from any corporation, commercial partnership or others a sum of money to pay the cost of the deposit or of the registration or as indemnity relating to such declaration, commits an infraction of this Act and is liable, for each infraction, to a fine not exceeding $50 and costs, and, in default of payment of the fine and costs, to imprisonment for three months.
R. S. 1964, c. 272, s. 15.