E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 473 Disposition versions

1988-01-01

473. In no case may an official agent, the leader of a party or an independent candidate pay a contested claim or the contested part of a claim.

Only the official representative may pay the claim or part of the claim in execution of a judgment of a competent court obtained by the creditor after a hearing of the case and not upon an acquiescence in the demand or an agreement of settlement.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, where no party or independent candidate objects, the treasurer may authorize the official representative to pay a contested claim or the contested part of the claim if the refusal or failure to pay results from an error made in good faith. Where the claim arises from an election expense attributable to one particular candidate, the payment thereof may be contested only by a party having presented a candidate for the same office or by an independent candidate for the same office.

1987, c. 57, s. 473.