E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 590 Disposition versions

1988-01-01

590. Every person is guilty of an offence who,

(1)  personally or through another person, induces or attempts to induce a person to become a candidate for an office on the council, to abstain from doing so or to withdraw his candidacy by promising or granting him any gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit or by the use of threats; or who,

(2)  in order to obtain or because he has obtained a gift, loan, office, employment or other benefit, agrees to become or becomes a candidate for an office on the council, agrees to abstain or abstains from doing so or agrees to withdraw or withdraws his candidacy.

1987, c. 57, s. 590.