PART XIII
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Inspection of documents.
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s.283
135. - (1) The minutes of proceedings of the Council
shall be open to the inspection of any registered elector for
the Municipality on payment of a fee not exceeding one dollar
and any such elector may make a copy thereof or an extract
therefrom.
(2) Any such elector as aforesaid may inspect and make
a copy of or extract from an order for the payment of money
made by the Council.
(3) The accounts of the Council and of the municipal
treasurer shall be open to the inspection of any member of the
Council and any such member may make a copy thereof or an
extract therefrom.
(4) The balance sheet and financial statement of the
Council and any report by an auditor on the accounts of the
Council shall be open to the inspection of any such elector as
aforesaid, and any such elector may make a copy thereof or an
extract therefrom and, subject to the exigencies of the business
of the Council, copies thereof shall be delivered to any such
elector on payment of such reasonable sum as the Council may
determine.
(5) A document äirected by this section to be open to
inspection shall be so open at all reasonable hours, and, except
where otherwise expressly provided, without payment.
(6) If a person having the custody of any document in
this section mentioned,
(a) obstructs any person entitled to inspect the
document or to make a copy thereof or extract
therefrom in inspecting the document or making a
copy or extract; or
(b) without reasonable cause wilfully refuses or neglects
on demand to give copies or extracts to any person
entitled to obtain copies or extracts,
he shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not
exceeding one hundred dollars.
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