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E-3.3 - Election Act

Section 551
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551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $500 to $2,000 for a first offence and of $3,000 to $30,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, manager, operator, superintendent, caretaker or person in charge of a residential building, a private seniors’ residence listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or a lodging facility operated by an organization for the purpose of ensuring the safety of a person or of the person’s children who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building or residence for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(2)  every person in authority at an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 135.1 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18; 2001, c. 72, s. 29; 2006, c. 17, s. 31; 2011, c. 27, s. 38; 2011, c. 38, s. 9; 2013, c. 5, s. 11.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $500 to $2,000 for a first offence and of $3,000 to $30,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, manager, operator, superintendent, caretaker or person in charge of a residential building, a private seniors’ residence listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or a lodging facility operated by an organization for the purpose of ensuring the safety of a person or of the person’s children who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building or residence for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 135.1 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18; 2001, c. 72, s. 29; 2006, c. 17, s. 31; 2011, c. 27, s. 38; 2011, c. 38, s. 9.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, manager, operator, superintendent, caretaker or person in charge of a residential building, a private seniors’ residence listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) or a lodging facility operated by an organization for the purpose of ensuring the safety of a person or of the person’s children who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building or residence for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 135.1 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18; 2001, c. 72, s. 29; 2006, c. 17, s. 31; 2011, c. 27, s. 38.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, manager, operator, superintendent, caretaker or person in charge of a residential building, a residence for the elderly listed in the register established under the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S‐4.2) or a lodging facility operated by an organization for the purpose of ensuring the safety of a person or of the person’s children who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building or residence for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in the second paragraph of section 135.1 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution for an enumerator or a person in charge of distributing a notice or document from the Chief Electoral Officer or the returning officer;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18; 2001, c. 72, s. 29; 2006, c. 17, s. 31.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, administrator, superintendent or caretaker of a multiple-dwelling building who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing a notice or document from the chief electoral officer or the returning officer;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing a notice or document from the chief electoral officer or the returning officer;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18; 2001, c. 72, s. 29.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1,000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2,000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, administrator, superintendent or caretaker of a multiple-dwelling building who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing the list of electors;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing the list of electors;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  (paragraph repealed).
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47; 1997, c. 8, s. 18.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1 000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2 000 for any subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every owner, administrator, superintendent or caretaker of a multiple-dwelling building who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to the building by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing the list of electors;
(2)  every executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who limits, restricts or fails to facilitate access to a facility maintained by that institution by an enumerator or a person entrusted with distributing the list of electors;
(3)  every enumerator or revisor who refuses or neglects to perform his duties in accordance with the provisions of this Act;
(4)  every person who uses, communicates or allows to be communicated, for purposes other than those provided for in this Act, or who communicates or allows to be communicated to a person not legally entitled thereto, any information relating to electors.
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164; 1995, c. 23, s. 47.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1 000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2 000 for every subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every enumerator or revisor who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly enters on the list a name which should not be entered;
(2)  every enumerator or revisor who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly omits a name which should be entered on the list;
(3)  every person who makes an application to enter a name which he knows to be fictitious or to be that of a deceased person or of a person not qualified as an elector;
(4)  every person who makes an application for the striking of the name of a person whom he knows to be qualified as an elector;
(5)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered on more than one list of electors, or on any list of electors despite his knowledge that he is not qualified as an elector, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from any list on which it is wrongfully entered;
(6)  every owner, administrator, superintendent or caretaker of a multiple-dwelling immovable who limits, restricts or does not facilitate the access of his immovable to an enumerator or to a person responsible for the distribution of the lists of electors;
(6.1)  the executive director of an institution referred to in section 3 who limits, restricts or does not facilitate the access of a facility maintained by the institution to an enumerator or to a person responsible for the distribution of the lists of electors;
(7)  every person appointed to act in a filing office who refuses or neglects to receive an application made to him or who refuses or neglects to transmit it to the returning officer;
(8)  every revisor who refuses or neglects to examine an application submitted to him;
(9)  every revisor who strikes the name of a person from the list of electors without causing the notice prescribed in section 215 to be sent to him;
(10)  every person who, contrary to the provisions of this Act, discloses the list of electors or the information contained therein;
(11)  every person who makes use of the list of electors for commercial or other profit-making ends.
1989, c. 1, s. 551; 1992, c. 21, s. 164.
551. The following persons are liable to a fine of $100 to $1 000 for a first offence and of $200 to $2 000 for every subsequent offence within five years:
(1)  every enumerator or revisor who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly enters on the list a name which should not be entered;
(2)  every enumerator or revisor who, in preparing a list of electors, knowingly omits a name which should be entered on the list;
(3)  every person who makes an application to enter a name which he knows to be fictitious or to be that of a deceased person or of a person not qualified as an elector;
(4)  every person who makes an application for the striking of the name of a person whom he knows to be qualified as an elector;
(5)  every person who, knowing that his name is entered on more than one list of electors, or on any list of electors despite his knowledge that he is not qualified as an elector, does not take the necessary steps to have his name struck from any list on which it is wrongfully entered;
(6)  every owner, administrator, superintendent or caretaker of a multiple-dwelling immovable or director of a hospital centre or reception centre who limits, restricts or does not facilitate the access of his immovable to an enumerator or to a person responsible for the distribution of the lists of electors;
(7)  every person appointed to act in a filing office who refuses or neglects to receive an application made to him or who refuses or neglects to transmit it to the returning officer;
(8)  every revisor who refuses or neglects to examine an application submitted to him;
(9)  every revisor who strikes the name of a person from the list of electors without causing the notice prescribed in section 215 to be sent to him;
(10)  every person who, contrary to the provisions of this Act, discloses the list of electors or the information contained therein;
(11)  every person who makes use of the list of electors for commercial or other profit-making ends.
1989, c. 1, s. 551.
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