197.140 - Public officer making false certificate.

197.140  Public officer making false certificate.  Every public officer who, being authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and deliver as true such a certificate or writing containing any statement which the public officer knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not expressly prescribed by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      [1911 C&P § 110; RL § 6375; NCL § 10059]