16. Every agricultural society, farmers’ club, colonization society, agricultural cooperative, horticultural society, stock-breeding syndicate, farmers’ and dairymen’s association, the Société d’industrie laitière de Québec, every society of patrons of a butter or cheese factory, butter or cheese manufacturing society, cooperative syndicate, canner, and every other person, society, cooperative or corporation carrying on an agricultural industry or the processing, distribution or marketing of agricultural products, as well as every agricultural college or school, and every public officer or employee of Québec, shall be bound to answer promptly the official communications from the department and must make every effort to supply information on all the questions submitted to them in the interests of agriculture and with a view to facilitating the compilation of statistics.
Any officer of any of the institutions above named, refusing or wilfully neglecting to answer any questions or to furnish any information relating to the interests of agriculture or of agricultural education, shall for every such offence incur a fine of twenty dollars, which shall be recoverable upon summary proceedings.
R. S. 1964, c. 101, s. 17; 1973, c. 22, s. 8; 1982, c. 26, s. 305.