80-409. Penalty for taking down or destroying statement. If any township officer or other person shall willfully take down, deface or destroy any notice or statement or copy thereof required by K.S.A. 80-407 to be posted at any polling place, or shall by any means put or place such statement or copy out of plain view of the electors before the polls of the election are closed, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed ninety days.

History: L. 1898, ch. 39, § 5; March 1, 1899; R.S. 1923, 80-409.