C-19 - Cities and Towns Act

Section 307 Disposition versions

1988-01-01

307. (Repealed).

R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 336; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 17, s. 2; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; 1987, c. 57, s. 708.

1977-12-31

307. Any person qualified to vote at the election of mayor or councillor may contest the election of a person as mayor or councillor, at whose election he was entitled to vote, and pray either for the annulment of such election, or for the annulment of the election and for a judgment declaring the plaintiff or some other person returned, upon all or any of the following grounds:

(1)  That the essential formalities were not observed at the election;

(2)  That the person returned did not receive the majority of legal votes at such election;

(3)  That he was not qualified to be elected as such mayor or councillor, as the case may be;

(4)  That he was guilty of corrupt practices prohibited by this act, either personally, or by an agent, with or without his authority, knowledge or sanction.

The hearing and decision of such contestation, in term or in vacation, shall be had exclusively before the Provincial Court, in the district in which the municipality where the election was held, is wholly or partly situated.

R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 336; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 17, s. 2; 1968, c. 55, s. 5.