15. Every person, company, association or corporation who or which acts as a contractor, without holding a contractor’s license, shall be liable, for a first offence, in addition to the costs, to a minimum fine of ten dollars per day and to a maximum fine of twenty-five dollars per day, or to imprisonment for eight days, or to both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court; and, for a second or any subsequent offence, to a fine of twenty-five dollars per day or to one month’s imprisonment, or to both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
R. S. 1964, c. 154, s. 18; 1969, c. 51, s. 90.