618. Every official representative is guilty of an offence who(0.1) contracts a loan with an elector in a manner that is not in accordance with section 446.1;
(1) contracts a loan that is not recorded in a writing containing the particulars required by the first paragraph of section 447;
(2) fails, where he obtains that an elector becomes surety for a loan, to verify that the contract of suretyship contains the particulars required by the second paragraph of section 447;
(2.1) contracts a loan with an elector or makes a contract of suretyship with the elector knowing that by so doing, the maximum amount specified in section 447.1 in respect of the elector will be exceeded;
(3) fails to pay the yearly interest payable on the loans he has contracted; or who
(4) uses sums of money other than those collected in accordance with Chapter XIII of Title I to repay the principal of or pay the interest on a loan which has been paid into the electoral fund provided for in section 457 or which has been used by him or his delegate to pay election expenses pursuant to section 455.
Every elector is guilty of an offence who grants a loan in a manner that is not in accordance with section 446.1 or grants a loan or makes a contract of suretyship knowing that by so doing, the maximum amount specified in section 447.1 will be exceeded.
1987, c. 57, s. 618; 1998, c. 31, s. 91; 2016, c. 172016, c. 17, s. 100119.a.