58. Tampering with locks, etc.
If any distiller, by himself or herself or by any person in his or her employ or with his or her connivance, opens any of the locks or doors of any warehouse, store, room, place, vessel, distillery-apparatus, pump or fitting required by or under this Act to be locked or secured, or makes or obtains or attempts to make or obtain access to the same except in the presence of an officer acting in his or her duty as such, or wilfully destroys or damages any fastening, lock or key used under this Act, or tampers with any distillery-apparatus, vessel or fitting, so as to render the same not in accordance with the provisions of this Act or of any order under section 15 applicable to such apparatus, vessel or fitting, or has any distillery-apparatus, vessel, utensil, pipe, cock or fitting or any fastening thereon so constructed that the security intended to be obtained by any lock or fastening may be impaired, he or she shall incur, and any person acting in his or her aid or doing any of the acts in this section specified shall incur, a penalty not exceeding $2,000.