E-2.2 - Act respecting elections and referendums in municipalities

Section 610 Disposition versions

2017-01-01

610. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every official representative, delegate of an official representative or person designated by either to solicit and collect contributions, and every financial representative of a party leadership candidate or person authorized by the financial representative to solicit or collect contributions, who collects a contribution with the knowledge that

(a)  the person making the contribution is not an elector of the municipality or is not an elector designated by the undivided co-owners of an immovable or the co-occupants of a business establishment, when such a designation is required;

(b)  the contribution is not being made by the elector himself;

(b.1)  the contribution is not being made voluntarily by the elector;

(b.2)  the elector is receiving compensation or consideration, or is being reimbursed;

(c)  the contribution is not being made at the elector’s own expense;

(d)  the contribution causes the elector to exceed the maximum prescribed in section 431 or 499.7;

(e)  the goods or services furnished free of charge for political purposes are not being assessed in accordance with the third paragraph of section 427;

(2)  every person who makes a contribution contemplated in paragraph 1;

(3)  every person who, by using threats or coercion or by promising compensation, consideration or a reimbursement, incites an elector to make a contribution;

(4)  every elector who falsely declares that a contribution is being made out of the elector’s own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it has not and will not be reimbursed in any way;

(5)  every elector who falsely declares that a loan is being granted or a suretyship contracted out of the elector’s own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it will not be reimbursed in any way other than as stipulated in the deed of loan.

1987, c. 57, s. 610; 2010, c. 32, s. 21; 2011, c. 38, s. 46; 2016, c. 17, s. 100..

2011-12-09

610. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every official representative, delegate of an official representative or person designated by either to solicit and collect contributions, and every financial representative of a party leadership candidate or person authorized by the financial representative to solicit or collect contributions, who collects a contribution with the knowledge that

(a)  the person making the contribution is not an elector of the municipality;

(b)  the contribution is not being made by the elector himself;

(b.1)  the contribution is not being made voluntarily by the elector;

(b.2)  the elector is receiving compensation or consideration, or is being reimbursed;

(c)  the contribution is not being made at the elector’s own expense;

(d)  the contribution causes the elector to exceed the maximum prescribed in section 431 or 499.7;

(e)  the goods or services furnished free of charge for political purposes are not being assessed in accordance with the third paragraph of section 427;

(2)  every person who makes a contribution contemplated in paragraph 1;

(3)  every person who, by using threats or coercion or by promising compensation, consideration or a reimbursement, incites an elector to make a contribution;

(4)  every elector who falsely declares that a contribution is being made out of the elector’s own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it has not and will not be reimbursed in any way.

1987, c. 57, s. 610; 2010, c. 32, s. 21; 2011, c. 38, s. 46.

2011-05-01

610. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every official representative, delegate of an official representative or person designated by either to solicit and collect contributions who collects a contribution with the knowledge that

(a)  the person making the contribution is not an elector of the municipality;

(b)  the contribution is not being made by the elector himself;

(b.1)  the contribution is not being made voluntarily by the elector;

(b.2)  the elector is receiving compensation or consideration, or is being reimbursed;

(c)  the contribution is not being made at the elector’s own expense;

(d)  the contribution causes the elector to exceed the maximum prescribed in section 431;

(e)  the goods or services furnished free of charge for political purposes are not being assessed in accordance with the third paragraph of section 427;

(2)  every person who makes a contribution contemplated in paragraph 1;

(3)  every person who, by using threats or coercion or by promising compensation, consideration or a reimbursement, incites an elector to make a contribution;

(4)  every elector who falsely declares that a contribution is being made out of the elector’s own property, voluntarily, without compensation and for no consideration, and that it has not and will not be reimbursed in any way.

1987, c. 57, s. 610; 2010, c. 32, s. 21.

1988-01-01

610. The following persons are guilty of an offence:

(1)  every official representative, delegate of an official representative or person designated by either to solicit and collect contributions who collects a contribution with the knowledge that

(a)  the person making the contribution is not an elector of the municipality;

(b)  the contribution is not being made by the elector himself;

(c)  the contribution is not being made at the elector’s own expense, unless it consists in the furnishing of services;

(d)  the contribution causes the elector to exceed the maximum prescribed in section 431;

(2)  every person who knowingly makes a contribution contemplated in paragraph 1.

1987, c. 57, s. 610.