P-9.3, r. 1 - Pesticides Management Code

Section 87.4 Disposition versions

2023-07-06

87.4. Every person who

(1)  fails to notify Urgence-Environnement in accordance with section 6,

(2)  starts work to apply a pesticide before the publication, broadcasting or sending of a notice or message in contravention of the second paragraph of section 58, the fourth paragraph of section 63, the fourth paragraph of section 64, the second paragraph of section 82 or the second paragraph of section 83, or before the expiry of the period provided for in the second paragraph of section 74.5,

(3)  fails to send the Minister a pesticide reduction plan in accordance with the first and second paragraphs of section 73,

commits an offence and is liable, in the case of a natural person, to a fine of $5,000 to $500,000 or, despite article 231 of the Code of Penal Procedure (chapter C-25.1), to a maximum term of imprisonment of 18 months, or to both the fine and imprisonment, and, in any other case, to a fine of $15,000 to $3,000,000.

O.C. 990-2023, s. 39.