244. If any officer or servant of, or person employed by any railway company, wilfully or negligently contravenes any by-law or regulation of the company, lawfully made and in force, or any order or notice of the Régie des services publics, the Commission des transports, the Minister of Transport or of the inspecting engineer, of which a copy has been delivered to him, or has been posted up or open to his inspection in some place where his work or his duties, or any of them, are to be performed, then, if such contravention causes injury to any property or to any person, or exposes any property or any person to the risk of injury, or renders such risk greater than it would have been without such contravention, although no actual injury occurs, the person convicted of such contravention shall, in the discretion of the court before which the conviction is had, be punished by fine or imprisonment, such fine not to be more than $400, nor such imprisonment for more than five years.
R. S. 1964, c. 290, s. 261; 1972, c. 55, s. 121; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.