Any person who, without permission or authority and for the purpose of evading or circumventing any law of this State, alters, manipulates, replaces, or in any other manner tampers or interferes with or causes to be altered, manipulated, replaced, tampered or interfered with, a totalizer, or who operates a pump not equipped with a sealed totalizer required by this act, is guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
N.J.S. § 56:6-12.3