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rosette, or other insignia of any such association or organization, herein
mentioned, duly registered hereunder, unless he or she shall be entitled
to use and wear the same under the constitution and by-laws, rules, and
regulations of such association and organization, shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding
one hundred ($100. 00) dollars, and, in default of payment, committed to
jail for a period of not to exceed sixty (60) days.

1933, ch. 343, sec. 7.

174H. The fees of the Secretary of State for registration, alteration,
cancellation, searches made by him, and certificates issued by him, pur-
suant to this sub-title, shall be the same as provided by law for similar
services. The fees collected under this sub-title, after deducting the cost
of administering this law, shall be paid by the Secretary of State into
the State Treasury. ¹

Fraud—Flour and Whiskey—Sales of.

176-177. Repealed by ch. 411 of the Acts of 1929.

Fraud—Upon Gas Companies.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 179. 1912, sec. 157. 1904, sec. 142. 1888, sec. 105.

1886, ch. 222, sec. 1. 1927, ch. 677. sec. 179.

1933, ch. 100.

179. Any person who shall wrongfully and maliciously damage, con-
nect, disconnect, tap, interfere or tamper with any mains, pipes, connec-
tions, valves, holders, machinery, manufacturing apparatus, appliances or
appurtenances belonging to any company using or engaged in the manu-
facture and/or supply of gas for light, heat and power or either of them,
or any person who, with intent to injure or defraud any gas company,
body corporate of this State, shall make, or cause to be made, any pipe,
tube or other instrument or contrivance, or connect the same, or cause
it to be connected, with any main service pipe or other pipe for conducting
or supplying gas, in such manner as to connect with and be calculated to
supply gas to any burner or orifice by or at which gas is consumed, around
or without passing through the meter provided for the measuring and
registering of the quantity of gas there consumed, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by
imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding two
hundred and fifty dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court. The
existence of any pipe or tube connection or other instrument or con-
trivance, as aforesaid, permitting the use of gas furnished by any gas
company, body corporate of this State, without it being measured or
registered on a meter provided therefor by such gas company, shall be
prima facie evidence of intent to violate and of the violation of this

¹ Sec. S of ch. 343 of the acts of 1933 repealed all laws inconsistent therewith