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H.B. 215 Enrolled

                 

FORGERY AMENDMENTS

                 
2001 GENERAL SESSION

                 
STATE OF UTAH

                 
Sponsor: Neal B. Hendrickson

                  This act modifies the Criminal Code regarding the offense of possession of a forged writing
                  or forgery tools with intent to defraud, by removing the provisions for a lesser offense of a
                  class A misdemeanor in specified circumstances, so that the offense is specified as a third
                  degree felony in all circumstances.
                  This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
                  AMENDS:
                      76-6-502, as last amended by Chapter 32, Laws of Utah 1974
                  Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
                      Section 1. Section 76-6-502 is amended to read:
                       76-6-502. Possession of forged writing or device for writing -- Penalty.
                      Any person who, with intent to defraud, knowingly possesses any writing that is a forgery
                  as defined in Section 76-6-501 , or who with intent to defraud knowingly possesses any device for
                  making any [such] writing that is a forgery as defined in Section 76-6-501 , is guilty of a [felony
                  of the] third degree[, except where the altering, making, completion, execution, issuance, transfer,
                  publication, or utterance of such writing would constitute a class A misdemeanor, in which event
                  the possession of the writing or device for making such a writing shall constitute a class A
                  misdemeanor] felony.

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