(A) No person shall, with purpose to mislead a public servant in performing his or her official function:
(1) Make any false written statement which he or she does not believe to be true;
(2) Purposely create a false impression in a written application for any pecuniary or other benefit, by omitting information necessary to prevent statements therein from being misleading;
(3) Submit or invite reliance on any writing which he or she knows to be forged, altered, or otherwise lacking in authenticity; or
(4) Submit or invite reliance on any sample, specimen, map, boundary mark, or other object which he or she knows to be false.
(B) No person shall make a written false statement which he or she does not believe to be true, on or pursuant to a form bearing notice, authorized by law, to the effect that false statements made therein are punishable.
(C) It is not a defense to prosecution for this offense that the declarant was not competent to make said statement, omission, submission, or invitation.
(D) No person shall be guilty of an offense under this section if he or she retracted the falsification in the course of the proceeding in which it was made before it became manifest that the falsification was or would be exposed and before the falsification substantially affected the proceeding.
(E) Where the defendant made inconsistent statements, omissions, submissions, invitations, or combination thereof within the period of the statute of limitations, the prosecution may proceed by setting forth the inconsistent statements, omissions, submissions, invitations, or combination thereof in a single charge alleging that one or the other was false and not believed by the defendant. In such case it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to prove which was false but only that one or the other was false and not believed by the defendant to be true.
(F) No person shall be convicted of an offense under this section where proof of falsity rests solely upon contradiction by unsupported oral testimony of a single person other than the defendant.
(Prior Code, § 133.05) (Ord. D-665, passed 9-8-1964, effective 11-1-1964) Penalty, see § 30.99