Any person who shall falsely personate a public officer, civil or military, or a policeman, or a private individual having special authority by law to perform an act affecting the right or interest of another, or who, without authority, shall assume any uniform or badge of which such an officer or person is lawfully distinguished by, and in such assumed character shall do any act purporting to be official, whereby another is injured or defrauded, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Ord. 178 § 24, 1963)