8. No alderman or councillor shall hold any office or place of profit in the pay of the municipal corporation which he represents.
No alderman or councillor shall be appointed to any office in the gift of the municipal corporation while he holds office as such alderman or councillor; and no appointment of such alderman or councillor for such office shall be valid, until he shall have resigned the office of alderman or councillor and such resignation has been accepted.
R. S. 1964, c. 173, s. 8.