Originally Posted by donnamb
Pardon my ignorance, but what is "offering a false instrument for filing"?
That's where they demand to see your guitar and you try to foist your ukulele on 'em. Although to read my state's law, you'd think it had something to do with forged ID or other documents:
Every person who shall knowingly procure or offer any false or forged instrument to be filed, registered, or recorded in any public office, which instrument, if genuine, might be filed, registered or recorded in such office under any law of this state or of the United States, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both.