C-27.1 - Municipal Code of Québec

Section 378 Disposition versions

1988-01-01

378. (Repealed).

M.C. 1916, a. 309; 1987, c. 57, s. 749.

0001-01-01

378. Every one who:

(a)  forges, counterfeits, fraudulently alters, defaces or fraudulently destroys a ballot or the initials of the presiding officer signed thereon;

(b)  without authority supplies a ballot to any person;

(c)  fraudulently puts into a ballot box a paper other than the ballot which he is authorized by law to put in;

(d)  fraudulently takes a ballot out of the polling station;

(e)  without due authority destroys, takes, opens or otherwise interferes with a ballot box or packet of ballots then in use for the purposes of the election;

(f)  being a presiding officer, fraudulently puts, otherwise than as authorized by article 370, his initials on the back of any paper purporting to be or capable of being used as a ballot at an election;

(g)  with fraudulent intent prints any ballot or what purports to be or is capable of being used as a ballot at an election;

(h)  being authorized by the presiding officer to print the ballots for an election, prints, with fraudulent intent, more ballots than he is authorized to print; or

(i)  attempts to commit any offence specified in this article;

is liable, if he is a presiding officer, or other officer engaged at the election, to a fine of not more than $500 and not less than $100 and to imprisonment for not more than three years and for not less than six months, in default of payment of such fine, and, if he is any other person, to a fine of from $50 to $400, and to imprisonment for not more than two years and for not less than six months, in default of payment of such fine.

M.C. 1916, a. 309.