It shall be unlawful for any person to, with intent to defraud or cheat, to designedly, by color or any false token or writing or by any false or bogus check or other written, printed or engraved instrument, by spurious coin or metal in the similitude of coin, or by an other false pretense, cause any person to grant, convey, assign, demise, lease or mortgage any land or interest in land, or obtain the signature of any person to any written instrument, the making whereof would be punishable as forgery, or obtain from any person any money or personal property or the use (of any instrument, facility or article or other valuable thing or service, or by means of any false weights or measures obtain a larger amount or quantity or property other than was bargained for, if such and or interest in land, money personal property, use of the instrument, facility or article, valuable thing, service, larger amount of obtained or less amount disposed of.
(Ord. 27, passed 12-14-1981) Penalty, see § 132.999