No public warehouse shall be designated as chartered or operated under the provisions of the Public Warehouse and Commodity Indemnity Act and no name or description conveying the impression that it is chartered or operated shall be used unless the public warehouse is chartered. Any person who misrepresents, forges, alters, counterfeits, simulates, or falsely represents the charter required by the Public Warehouse and Commodity Indemnity Act, or who issues, utters, or assists or attempts to issue or utter, a false or fraudulent receipt for any commodities, shall be, upon conviction, guilty of a felony. The fine for a violation of this section shall not be more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00), or by imprisonment in the State Penitentiary for a term of not more than twenty (20) years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Added by Laws 1955, p. 83, art. 9(B), § 16, emerg. eff. June 3, 1955. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 95, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 32, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2000, c. 243, § 95, emerg. eff. May 24, 2000.
NOTE: Laws 1997, c. 10, § 14 repealed by Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 452, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 95 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.