§ 18. Penalty for Failure to Observe Duties Imposed.

Any officer or employee of the City who shall willfully violate any provisions of the charter in regard to any duty imposed on him as such officer or employee, or commit any fraud upon the City, or convert any of the property or funds of said City to his own use or to the use of any other person, or who shall willfully or corruptly permit any other person to do so, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof be punished therefor as provided by the General Laws of the State in case of misdemeanors, and shall forfeit any office held by him in said City and be thereafter forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit in said City.