§502-54  Penalty for false certificate. 
Any officer authorized to take acknowledgments to instruments who knowingly
incorporates in the certificate of acknowledgment any false or misleading
statement as to the facts therein contained, shall be fined not more than
$1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.  Nothing in this section
shall be construed to do away with the liability for civil damages for such
act. [L 1882, c 41; am L 1903, c 8, §2; RL 1925, §3159; RL 1935, §5145; am L
1941, c 22, §1; RL 1945, §12745; RL 1955, §343-38; HRS §502-54]