Fraudulent practices relative to weights and measures.
Section 287
SEC. 287. Fraudulent practices relative to weights and measures. — Any person other than an official sealer of weights and measures who places an official tag or seal upon any instrument of weight or measure, or attaches it thereto; or 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 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 Chapter; 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 using or reusing the same in the payment of fees or charges imposed in this Chapter; 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 or imprisoned for not less than one month nor more than five years, or both.