Section 43
SEC. 43. Section four hundred and seventy-seven of Act Numbered Twenty-seven hundred and eleven is hereby amended to read as follows: "SEC. 477. Canvass by municipal council.—Immediately after the election the municipal council shall meet in special session and shall proceed to act as a municipal board of canvassers. The municipal treasurer shall produce before it the statements filed with him and the council shall canvass the votes cast for each municipal office and certify-as elected those who obtained a plurality of votes and who have filed their certificate of candidacy in the same manner as hereinbefore provided for the provincial board, and to that end shall have the same powers. The municipal board of canvassers shall not have the power to recount the votes or to inspect any of them, but shall proceed upon the statements rendered, as corrected, if corrections are necessary. Its determinations shall be reduced to writing in triplicate, signed by the members, or a majority of them, and one copy shall be filed in the municipal secretary's office, one with the provincial treasurer and one with the Chief of the Executive Bureau immediately on completion of the canvass. "Any candidate for municipal office thus declared elected shall assume office, notwithstanding the pendency in court of any contest regarding his election, but said certificate of the municipal board of canvassers shall not prevail against the decision of the court. "In case the canvass results in a tie for any municipal office the tied candidates shall draw lots in the presence of the board of canvassers, and the successful candidate shall be declared elected. "For the first election in a new municipality the provincial board shall act as the board of canvassers to declare the results of the municipal election."