A person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits or procures to be made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or aids or assists in making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, any scrip or imitation purporting to be scrip issued, under the authorization of 11 V.S.A. chapter 5, with intent to injure or defraud, and a person who utters, passes, or gives in payment or offers to pass or give in payment or has in his or her possession with intent to offer, pass or give in payment, such altered, forged, counterfeited, or imitated scrip, knowing the same to be altered, forged, counterfeited, or imitated shall be punishable for forgery, notwithstanding any other penalty provided in 11 V.S.A. chapter 5.