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P-42.1.1 - Act to protect elected municipal officers and to facilitate the unhindered exercise of their functions
Section 7
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7. A local municipality may institute penal proceedings for an offence under section 4 or 5 that was committed in its territory.
The fine belongs to the municipality that instituted the proceedings.
Proceedings referred to in the first paragraph are instituted in any municipal court having jurisdiction in the territory in which the offence was committed. The costs relating to proceedings instituted before a municipal court belong to the municipality to which the court is attached, except the part of the costs remitted to another prosecuting party by the collector under article 345.2 of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C‐25.1), and the costs remitted to the defendant or imposed on that municipality under article 223 of that Code.
