2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 27-56. Issuing fraudulent duplicates.

§ 27‑56.  Issuing fraudulent duplicates.

A warehouseman, or any officer, agent, or servant of a warehouseman, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable receipt for goods, knowing that a former negotiable receipt for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncanceled, without plainly placing upon the face thereof the word "duplicate," except in the case of a lost or destroyed receipt after proceedings for delivery as heretofore provided in this chapter, shall be guilty of a crime, and upon conviction shall be punished for each offense by imprisonment not exceeding five years or by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by both. (1917, c. 37, s. 52; C.S., s. 4092.)