General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 267 Forgery and Crimes Against the Currency
- Massachusetts General Laws - False or forged records, certificates, returns, attestations and other writings - Chapter 267, Section 1
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of a clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Railroad or admission tickets, passes or badges - Chapter 267, Section 2
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a railroad ticket, railroad mileage book or railroad pass, or a ticket,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seal of land court; stamping documents without authority - Chapter 267, Section 3
Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the seal of the land court, or, without lawful authority, stamps or procures to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Railroad company stamp; forging or using without authority - Chapter 267, Section 4
Whoever forges, procures to be forged or assists in forging, the stamp of any railroad company or of any railroad ticket agent, or, without lawful...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uttering false or forged records, deeds or other writings - Chapter 267, Section 5
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uttering a forged railroad or admission ticket, pass or badge - Chapter 267, Section 6
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered railroad ticket, railroad mileage book or railroad pass,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False or forged note, certificate or other bill of credit issued for debt of commonwealth - Chapter 267, Section 7
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a note, certificate or other bill of credit issued by the state...
- Massachusetts General Laws - False, forged or counterfeited bank bill, note or traveller’s check - Chapter 267, Section 8
Whoever, with intent to injure or defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a bank bill or promissory note payable to the bearer thereof or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of ten or more of false, forged or counterfeited notes or bills - Chapter 267, Section 9
Whoever has in his possession at the same time ten or more similar false, altered, forged or counterfeit notes, bills of credit, bank bills or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uttering, passing or tendering false, forged or counterfeited note, certificate, bill or traveller’s check - Chapter 267, Section 10
Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true any such false, altered, forged or counterfeit note, certificate or bill of credit for any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Common utterers of counterfeit bills - Chapter 267, Section 11
Whoever, having been convicted of the crime mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the like crime committed after the former conviction, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of false, forged or counterfeit bills, notes or traveller’s checks - Chapter 267, Section 12
Whoever brings into this commonwealth or has in his possession a false, forged or counterfeit bill or note, in the similitude of the bills or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tools or material for making false, forged or counterfeited notes, certificates, bills or traveller’s checks - Chapter 267, Section 13
Whoever engraves, makes or mends, or begins to engrave, make or mend, a plate, block, press or other tool, instrument or implement, or makes or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Evidence relative to forged or counterfeited bank or institution bills or notes - Chapter 267, Section 14
In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting notes or bills of the banks or institutions before mentioned, or for uttering, publishing or tendering in payment as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Certificates of certain officials of the United States, a state or territory, as evidence - Chapter 267, Section 15
In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting a note, certificate, bill of credit or other security issued on behalf of the United States, or on behalf...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fictitious signatures of corporate officers or agents - Chapter 267, Section 16
If a fictitious or pretended signature, purporting to be the signature of an officer or agent of a corporation, is fraudulently affixed to an instrument...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Counterfeiting coin; possession of ten or more pieces of false money - Chapter 267, Section 17
Whoever counterfeits any gold or silver coin current by law or usage within the commonwealth, or has in his possession at the same time ten...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of less than ten pieces of counterfeit coin; uttering, passing or tendering in payment - Chapter 267, Section 18
Whoever has in his possession less than ten pieces of the counterfeit coin mentioned in the preceding section, knowing the same to be counterfeit, with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Common utterers of counterfeit coin - Chapter 267, Section 19
Whoever, having been convicted of any of the crimes mentioned in the preceding section, is again convicted of the same crimes committed after the former...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tools for making counterfeit coin - Chapter 267, Section 20
Whoever casts, stamps, engraves, makes or mends, or knowingly has in his possession a mould, pattern, die, puncheon, engine, press or other tool or instrument,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notes, bills, orders or checks as currency - Chapter 267, Section 21
Whoever issues or passes a note, bill, order or check, other than foreign bills of exchange, the notes or bills of a bank incorporated by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notes, bills, orders or checks for less than five dollars, as currency - Chapter 267, Section 22
Whoever issues or passes a note, bill, order or check, other than the notes or bills of a bank incorporated under the authority of this...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bank notes or bills for a fraction of a dollar - Chapter 267, Section 23
Whoever receives or puts in circulation as currency a bank note or bill which is, or a part of which is, for any fractional part...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Connecting parts of instruments - Chapter 267, Section 24
Whoever fraudulently connects different parts of several bank notes or other genuine instruments in such manner as to produce one additional note or instrument, with...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Damaging or impairing bank bills or notes - Chapter 267, Section 25
Whoever wilfully and maliciously tears, cuts or in any manner damages and impairs the usefulness for circulation of a bank bill or note of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Gathering or retaining bank bills or notes - Chapter 267, Section 26
Whoever maliciously gathers up or retains or maliciously aids in gathering up or retaining bills or notes of a bank or banking company, current by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Possession of worthless bank bills or notes - Chapter 267, Section 27
Whoever has in his possession at the same time five or more bank bills or notes not current which are worthless as bank bills or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Uttering, passing or tendering worthless bank bills or notes - Chapter 267, Section 28
Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true any such worthless bank bill or note not current, or any paper not a bank...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Shop bills or advertisements similar to bank bills or treasury notes or other United States Securities - Chapter 267, Section 29
Whoever engraves, prints, issues, utters or circulates a shop bill or advertisement, in similitude, form and appearance like a bank bill, on paper similar to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Seizure of false, forged or counterfeit bills, notes or bonds or counterfeiter’s tools; destruction; return - Chapter 267, Section 30
When false, forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or forged or counterfeit notes or bonds of any state or corporation, or plates, dies or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Compensation to prosecutors and officers - Chapter 267, Section 31
Upon a conviction of any crime mentioned in sections seven, eight, seventeen, eighteen, twenty or twenty-eight or upon forfeiture by persons prosecuted for any such...
Last modified: September 11, 2015