81. In the case of section 79 or 80, the council may, in addition to any other legal recourse, recover, from such officer or employee of the municipality or from his representatives, all such moneys, keys, books, papers, insignia, documents, records and other things, without prejudice to damages, with legal costs.
The council may exercise the same rights and obtain the same remedy against any other person having in his possession and refusing to deliver up any such things.
R. S. 1964, c. 193, s. 77; 1968, c. 55, s. 5; I.N. 2016-01-01 (NCCP).