Any person who wilfully or knowingly circulates, publishes or exhibits any false statement or representation concerning the contents, purpose or effect of any petition mentioned herein for the purpose of obtaining any signature to any such petition or for the purpose of persuading any person to sign any petition, or who files in the office of the county clerk any petition mentioned herein 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, or who circulates or causes to be circulated any petition mentioned herein knowing the same to contain false, forged or fictitious names, or who makes any false affidavit concerning any petition mentioned therein or the signatures appended thereto, or who knowingly signs his own name more than once to any petition mentioned herein, or to sign his name to any such petition knowing himself at the time of such signing not to be qualified to sign the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to penalty as provided in section 1-4-1 of this title. (Ord. 81-7, 11-23-1981; amd. 2011 Code)