80. If any officer or employee of the municipality die, or if he be absent from the territory of the municipality, his representatives or heirs shall, within one month from his death or absence, deliver, to the mayor or at the office of the council, the moneys, keys, books, papers, objects, documents, records and other things belonging to the council, and which he had in charge or in use in the execution of the office so held by him.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 76; 1968, s. 55, s. 5; 1996, c. 2, s. 134.