Every person who cuts out,
alters, mutilates, changes, disfigures, or defaces any legally recorded mark
or marks made upon any log, lumber, or wood, or re-marks or puts a false mark
thereon with intent to prevent the owner from discovering its identity, or
places any mark upon, or cuts, saws, manufactures, or in any manner
appropriates to his own use, or to the use of any other person, any prize log
or timber, is guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine not exceeding
$500, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both
such fine and imprisonment. In any prosecution for a violation of the
provisions of this section relating to prize logs it shall be sufficient to
prove that such logs are prize logs without further proof of ownership. |
