§ 12718
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Any person who does any of the following acts is guilty of a misdemeanor:
(a)Requests any person to weigh, measure, or count any commodity falsely or incorrectly.
(b)Requests a false or incorrect weighmaster certificate.
(c)Furnishes or gives false information to a weighmaster for use in the completion of a weighmaster certificate.
(d)Knowingly presents for payment a false weighmaster certificate.
(e)Knowingly issues a weighmaster certificate giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(f)Alters a weighmaster certificate resulting in giving thereon a false weight, measure, or count.
(g)Possesses unfilled or unused weighmaster certificate forms, if he or she is not a weighmaster.
(h)Issues a weighmaster certificate that contains alterations or omissions of gross or tare weights, net only weights, or measurements.