Whenever it may be necessary, in order to procure a license, permit, grant, or privilege of any kind or to obtain a referendum vote on any proposition, to secure signatures to a petition for the same under the provisions of this Code or under any law or ordinance affecting the whole or any part of the city, it shall be unlawful for any person, individually, or any firm or corporation by its members, officers or agents, to forge the signature or procure the forging of the signature to the same of any person who is by law qualified to sign such petition, or to sign or procure the signing of a fictitious name to such petition, or to procure the signature to the same of the person qualified to sign such petition by payment of money or other valuable thing to the person so signing.
Any person that shall violate the provisions of this section by forging a signature, signing a fictitious name, or purchasing a signature, or by procuring the doing of same, shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $200.00 dollars for each offense, and the signing or procuring of each false or fraudulent name to such petition shall be regarded as a distinct and separate offense.
(Prior code § 193-23)