Fraudulent practices relative to weights and measures.
Section 179
SEC. 179. Fraudulent practices relative to weights and measures.—Any person other than an official sealer of measures. weights and measures who places an official tag or seal upon any instrument of weight or measure, or attaches it thereto, and any person who fraudulently imitates any mark, stamp, brand, tag, or other characteristic sign used to indicate that weights and measures have been officially sealed; or who alters in any way the certificate given by the sealer as an acknowledgment that the weights and measures mentioned therein have been duly sealed, or who makes or knowingly sells or uses any false or counterfeit stamp, tag, certificate, or license, or any die for printing or making stamps, tags, certificates, or licenses, which is an imitation of or purports to be a lawful stamp, tag, certificate, or license of the kind required by the provisions of this Act, or who alters the written or printed figures or letters on any stamp, tag, certificate, or license used or issued or who has in his possession any such false, counterfeit, restored or altered stamp, tag, certificate, or license for the purpose of use or reuse of the same in the payment of fees or charges imposed in this Act, or who procures the commission of any such offense by another, shall for each such offense be fined not less than two hundred pesos nor more than ten thousand pesos and shall be imprisoned for not less than one month nor more than five years, in the discretion of the court.