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California Penal Code

§ 476

PEN § 476 Effective Jan 1, 1999Title 13 · Part 1 · Ch. 4
Every person who makes, passes, utters, or publishes, with intent to defraud any other person, or who, with the like intent, attempts to pass, utter, or publish, or who has in his or her possession, with like intent to utter, pass, or publish, any fictitious or altered bill, note, or check, purporting to be the bill, note, or check, or other instrument in writing for the payment of money or property of any real or fictitious financial institution as defined in Section 186.9 is guilty of forgery.

Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 468, Sec. 7. Effective January 1, 1999.

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