6. Every person who, in a municipality where a tax is levied under the authority of this act, peddles without a license to that effect, or who refuses to show his license to the persons indicated in section 7 of this act, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable, for each offence, in addition to the payment of the costs, to a fine of not more than $200, and, in default of payment of the said fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than three months.
R. S. 1964, c. 190, s. 6.