33. Any clerk, secretary, or secretary-treasurer, as aforesaid, of any municipal corporation or other corporate body, as aforesaid, neglecting to perform, within the proper period, any duty devolving upon him in virtue of this division, shall be subject, upon prosecution in the name of the Attorney General in any court having competent jurisdiction, to a fine of $200, or, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment until such fine be paid, but for a term of not more than twelve months.
R. S. 1964, c. 171, s. 32.