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It shall be illegal for an employer to authorize or consent or dismiss an employee or official, or for a person to threaten to dismiss or dismiss, suspend, dock the pay, demote, or impose or try to impose onerous working conditions on an employee or official because said employee or official has been summoned to attend and attends, as a regular local or alternate commissioner, a meeting duly called by the local commission if the affected local commissioner has sent a copy of the summons to his/her employer or supervisor before the meeting is held.\nAny person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, be sanctioned by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six (6) months or a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or both penalties, at the discretion of the court.\nHistory —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 12.008.