E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 631 Disposition versions

2011-11-30

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  (paragraph repealed);

(3)  every owner, administrator, operator, caretaker, custodian or person in charge of an immovable or a private seniors’ residence listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) and every executive director of an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 50 who limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable, residence or facilities of the institution by a mobile polling station or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document issued by the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;

(4)  every member of a board of revisors who does not allow the making of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  (paragraph repealed);

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list or to refuse to enter a name on the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in section 137 has not been given to him;

(7.1)  every person who writes down or otherwise records information contained in a document produced by an elector pursuant to section 213.2, the third paragraph of section 215, the second paragraph of section 545 or section 545.1 or uses such information for commercial purposes or for profit;

(8)  every person who, in contravention of section 659.1, uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information contained in a list of electors or referendum list or in a list of qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on a referendum list.

1987, c. 57, s. 631; 1995, c. 23, s. 72; 1997, c. 34, s. 43; 1999, c. 15, s. 42; 2009, c. 11, s. 80; 2011, c. 27, s. 38.

2009-06-01

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  (paragraph repealed);

(3)  every owner, administrator, operator, caretaker, custodian or person in charge of an immovable or a residence for the elderly listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) and every executive director of an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 50 who limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable, residence or facilities of the institution by a mobile polling station or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document issued by the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;

(4)  every member of a board of revisors who does not allow the making of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  (paragraph repealed);

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list or to refuse to enter a name on the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in section 137 has not been given to him;

(7.1)  every person who writes down or otherwise records information contained in a document produced by an elector pursuant to section 213.2, the third paragraph of section 215, the second paragraph of section 545 or section 545.1 or uses such information for commercial purposes or for profit;

(8)  every person who, in contravention of section 659.1, uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information contained in a list of electors or referendum list or in a list of qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on a referendum list.

1987, c. 57, s. 631; 1995, c. 23, s. 72; 1997, c. 34, s. 43; 1999, c. 15, s. 42; 2009, c. 11, s. 80.

1999-06-19

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  (paragraph repealed);

(3)  every owner, administrator, caretaker or custodian of an immovable who knowingly limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable for a person responsible for collecting the information needed to draw up a list of electors or referendum list or a person entrusted with the distribution, in accordance with this Act, of extracts from the list of electors or referendum list or of reminders;

(4)  every member of a board of revisors who does not allow the making of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  (paragraph repealed);

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list or to refuse to enter a name on the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in section 137 has not been given to him;

(7.1)  every person who writes down or otherwise records information contained in a document produced by an elector pursuant to section 213.2, the third paragraph of section 215, the second paragraph of section 545 or section 545.1 or uses such information for commercial purposes or for profit;

(8)  every person who, in contravention of section 659.1, uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information contained in a list of electors or referendum list or in a list of qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on a referendum list.

1987, c. 57, s. 631; 1995, c. 23, s. 72; 1997, c. 34, s. 43; 1999, c. 15, s. 42.

1997-09-01

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  (paragraph repealed);

(3)  every owner, administrator, caretaker or custodian of an immovable who knowingly limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable for a person responsible for collecting the information needed to draw up a list of electors or referendum list or a person entrusted with the distribution, in accordance with this Act, of extracts from the list of electors or referendum list or of reminders;

(4)  every member of a board of revisors who does not allow the making of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  (paragraph repealed);

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list or to refuse to enter a name on the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in section 137 has not been given to him;

(8)  every person who, in contravention of section 659.1, uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information contained in a list of electors or referendum list or in a list of qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on a referendum list.

1987, c. 57, s. 631; 1995, c. 23, s. 72; 1997, c. 34, s. 43.

1997-06-01

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered without right on the list of electors or referendum list, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from the list;

(3)  every owner, administrator, caretaker or custodian of an immovable who knowingly limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable for a person responsible for collecting the information needed to draw up a list of electors or referendum list or a person entrusted with the distribution, in accordance with this Act, of extracts from the list of electors or referendum list or of reminders;

(4)  every person appointed to act in a filing office who does not allow the filing of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  every person designated by the returning officer or by the clerk or the secretary-treasurer to transmit to him the applications to amend the list of electors or referendum list filed at the filing office who fails to do so;

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in sections 137 and 138 has not been given to him;

(8)  every person who, in contravention of section 659.1, uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information contained in a list of electors or referendum list or in a list of qualified voters entitled to have their names entered on a referendum list.

1987, c. 57, s. 631; 1995, c. 23, s. 72.

1988-01-01

631. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every person who, illegally and without right, manufactures, counterfeits, removes, uses, destroys, gives, sells or issues any badge to be used by an election or referendum officer;

(2)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered without right on the list of electors or referendum list, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from the list;

(3)  every owner, administrator, caretaker or custodian of an immovable who knowingly limits, restricts or does not facilitate access to the immovable for an enumerator or a person entrusted with the distribution, in accordance with this Act, of extracts from the list of electors or referendum list or of reminders;

(4)  every person appointed to act in a filing office who does not allow the filing of an application to amend the list of electors or referendum list, which is made to him according to law;

(5)  every person designated by the returning officer or by the clerk or the secretary-treasurer to transmit to him the applications to amend the list of electors or referendum list filed at the filing office who fails to do so;

(6)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who prevents the board of revisors from examining or deciding an application to amend the list submitted to it;

(7)  every member of a board of revisors of the list of electors or referendum list who takes part in a decision to strike off the name of a person from the list with the knowledge that one clear day’s notice as prescribed in sections 137 and 138 has not been given to him.

1987, c. 57, s. 631.