115. So long as he continues in office, the mayor is ex officio a justice of the peace, within the boundaries of the municipality wherein he holds office, without other qualifications and without being obliged to take the oaths prescribed for justices of the peace.
He is incompetent to hear and decide any cases in which the corporation or its officers are interested parties.
So long as they continue in office, the councillors are ex officio justices of the peace, for the administering of oaths only, within the boundaries of the municipality wherein they hold office, without other qualifications and without being obliged to take the oaths prescribed for justices of the peace.
M.C. 1916, a. 86; 1933, c. 41, s. 2.