RCW 42.20.050: Public officer making false certificate.

RCWs > Title 42 > Chapter 42.20 > Section 42.20.050

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42.20.040 << 42.20.050 >> 42.20.060

PDFRCW 42.20.050

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 he or she knows to be false, in a case where the punishment thereof is not expressly prescribed by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

[ 2012 c 117 § 115; 1909 c 249 § 128; RRS § 2380.]