A person is guilty of a misdemeanor who:
A. Signs any name other than his own to any initiative or referendum petition.
B. Knowingly signs his name more than once on the same initiative or referendum petition.
C. Knowingly signs his name to any initiative or referendum petition if he is not a registered city elector.
D. Wilfully or knowingly circulates, publishes or exhibits any false statement or representation concerning the contents, purport or effect of any initiative or referendum petition for the purpose of obtaining any signature to any such petition, or for the purpose of persuading any person to sign any such petition.
E. Presents to any officer for filing any initiative or referendum petition to which is attached, appended or subscribed any signature which the person so filing such petition knows to be false or fraudulent, or not the genuine signature of the person purporting to sign such petition, or whose name is attached, appended or subscribed thereto.
F. Circulates or causes to circulate any initiative or referendum petition, knowing the same to contain false, forged or fictitious names.
G. Makes any false affidavit concerning any initiative or referendum petition or the signatures appended thereto. (Ord. 380, 7-12-1977)