California Penal Code CHAPTER 4 - Forgery and Counterfeiting

• Section 470.
  (a) Every person who, with the intent to defraud, knowing that he or she has no authority to do so, signs the name of another person...
• Section 470a.
  Every person who alters, falsifies, forges, duplicates or in any manner reproduces or counterfeits any driver’s license or identification card issued by a governmental agency...
• Section 470b.
  Every person who displays or causes or permits to be displayed or has in his or her possession any driver’s license or identification card of...
• Section 471.
  Every person who, with intent to defraud another, makes, forges, or alters any entry in any book of records, or any instrument purporting to be...
• Section 471.5.
  Any person who alters or modifies the medical record of any person, with fraudulent intent, or who, with fraudulent intent, creates any false medical record,...
• Section 472.
  Every person who, with intent to defraud another, forges, or counterfeits the seal of this State, the seal of any public officer authorized by law,...
• Section 473.
  (a) Forgery is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.(b) Notwithstanding...
• Section 474.
  Every person who knowingly and willfully sends by telegraph or telephone to any person a false or forged message, purporting to be from a telegraph...
• Section 475.
  (a) Every person who possesses or receives, with the intent to pass or facilitate the passage or utterance of any forged, altered, or counterfeit items, or...
• Section 476.
  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,...
• Section 476a.
  (a) Any person who, for himself or herself, as the agent or representative of another, or as an officer of a corporation, willfully, with intent to...
• Section 477.
  Every person who counterfeits any of the species of gold or silver coin current in this State, or any kind or species of gold dust,...
• Section 478.
  Counterfeiting is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 for two, three or four years.(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 362....
• Section 479.
  Every person who has in his possession, or receives for any other person, any counterfeit gold or silver coin of the species current in this...
• Section 480.
  (a) Every person who makes, or knowingly has in his or her possession any die, plate, or any apparatus, paper, metal, machine, or other thing whatever,...
• Section 481.
  Every person who counterfeits, forges, or alters any ticket, check, order, coupon, receipt for fare, or pass, issued by any railroad or steamship company, or...
• Section 481.1.
  (a) Every person who counterfeits, forges, or alters any fare media designed to entitle the holder to a ride on vehicles of a public transportation system,...
• Section 482.
  Every person who, for the purpose of restoring to its original appearance and nominal value in whole or in part, removes, conceals, fills up, or...
• Section 483.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 26002.5 of the Government Code and Sections 40180.5 and 99151 of the Public Utilities Code, any person, firm, corporation,...
• Section 483.5.
  (a) No deceptive identification document shall be manufactured, sold, offered for sale, furnished, offered to be furnished, transported, offered to be transported, or imported or offered...

Last modified: October 22, 2018