Page:1951 North Dakota Session Laws.pdf/195

178 tured check or other order for the payment of money, as a means of obtaining any signature, money, or property, such as is specified in sections 12-3804, 12-3305 and 12-3806, by a person who knows that a drawer thereof is not entitled to draw for the sum specified therein, upon the drawee, is the use of a false token within the meaning of those sections although no representation is made in respect thereto.

Approved February 27, 1951.

Making it unlawfull for anyone to deface, destroy or alter engine or serial numbers on tractors, combines, corn pickers or any other heavy farm machinery carrying a factory serial number, and providing a penalty therefor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of North Dakota:

1.) It shall be unlawful for any person who, with fraudulent intent, shall:

1. Deface, destroy, alter or remove the serial number of any tractor, combine, corn picker or any other heavy farm machinery that carries à factory serial number.

2. Place or stamp other than the original serial number upon any tractor, combine, corn picker or any other heavy farm machinery that carries a factory serial number; and

3. Sell or offer for sale any tractor, combine, corn picker or any other heavy farm machinery bearing an altered or defaced serial number other than the original.

§ 2. .) Any person, who shall violate any of the provisions of the Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days.

Approved March 8, 1951.