Texas Penal Code

§ 32.22 — CRIMINAL SIMULATION

PE § 32.22Title 7. OFFENSES AGAINST PROPERTY · Ch. 32. FRAUD · Art. B. FORGERY

Statute text

(a)A person commits an offense if, with intent to defraud or harm another:

(1)he makes or alters an object, in whole or in part, so that it appears to have value because of age, antiquity, rarity, source, or authorship that it does not have;

(2)he possesses an object so made or altered, with intent to sell, pass, or otherwise utter it; or

(3)he authenticates or certifies an object so made or altered as genuine or as different from what it is.

(b)An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

Legislative history

Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994.