No person shall, directly or indirectly: (a) Willfully misrepresent the contents of any initiative or referendum petition; (b) Pay or offer to pay any elector anything of value for signing an initiative or referendum petition; (c) Promise to help another person to obtain appointment to any office provided for by the Ohio Constitution or laws of Ohio or by the ordinances of any municipal corporation, or to any position or employment in the service of the State or any political subdivision thereof as a consideration for obtaining signatures to an initiative or referendum petition; (d) Obtain signatures to any initiative or referendum petition as a consideration for the assistance or promise of assistance of another person in securing an appointment to any office or position provided for by the Ohio Constitution or laws of this State or by the ordinance of any municipal corporation therein, or employment in the service of the State or any subdivision thereof; (e) Alter, add to, or erase any signatures or names on the parts of a petition after such parts have been filed with the Village Clerk; (f) Sell, purchase, steal, attempt to steal, or willfully destroy or mutilate an initiative or referendum petition which is being or has been lawfully circulated; (g) Intimidate or threaten, influence or seek to influence, directly or indirectly, any person to sign or abstain from signing, or to solicit signatures to or abstain from soliciting signatures to an initiative or referendum petition; or (h) Fail to file the itemized statement required in Section 8.03 of this Charter. The Village Council may provide by a general ordinance appropriate penalties for any person convicted of one (1) or more of the above prohibitions.