Any person who shall forge or counterfeit a certificate or knowingly make or cause to be made any false statement in any certificate of competency provided for in this chapter or in any official copy of the same, or who shall utter or use any false certificate or unofficial copy thereof or shall make, give, utter, produce, or make use of any false declaration, representation, or statement in any such certificate or copy thereof or any document containing the same or shall make any false statement or misrepresentation in his application before the examining board for any certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and his certificate shall be cancelled or annulled by the examining board.