Florida Statutes Title XLVI Chapter 831 - Forgery And Counterfeiting
- 831.01 - Forgery.
Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of any clerk or register of a court, public...
- 831.02 - Uttering Forged Instruments.
Whoever utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in s. 831.01 knowing the same to...
- 831.025 - Evidence In Prosecution For Forgery Or Counterfeiting.
In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting notes or bills of banks, or for uttering, publishing, or tendering in payment as true, any forged or counterfeit...
- 831.03 - Forging Or Counterfeiting Private Labels; Definitions.
As used in ss. 831.03-831.034, the term:(1) “Bodily injury” means:(a) A cut, abrasion, bruise, burn, or disfigurement;(b) Physical pain;(c) Illness;(d) Impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or...
- 831.031 - Evidence.
In any proceeding under or related to ss. 831.03-831.034:(1) Proof that a person is in possession of more than 25 goods, labels, patches, stickers, wrappers, badges,...
- 831.032 - Offenses Involving Forging Or Counterfeiting Private Labels.
(1) Whoever, knowingly and willfully, forges or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be forged or counterfeited, manufactures, distributes or transports, or possesses with intent to...
- 831.033 - Forging Or Counterfeiting Private Labels; Destruction; Forfeiture.
(1)(a) Any goods to which forged or counterfeit trademarks or service marks are attached or affixed or any tools or other materials for the reproduction of...
- 831.034 - Prosecutions.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, prosecution may be had for any and all violations of ss. 831.03-831.033 and for any other criminal violations...
- 831.04 - Penalty For Changing Or Forging Certain Instruments Of Writing.
(1) Any person making any erasure, alteration, interlineation or interpolation in any writing or instrument mentioned in s. 92.28, and made admissible in evidence, with the...
- 831.06 - Fictitious Signature Of Officer Of Corporation.
If a fictitious or pretended signature, purporting to be the signature of an officer or agent of a corporation, is fraudulently affixed to any instrument...
- 831.07 - Forging Bank Bills, Checks, Drafts, Or Promissory Notes.
Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits a bank bill, check, draft, or promissory note payable to the bearer thereof, or to the order of...
- 831.08 - Possessing Certain Forged Notes, Bills, Checks, Or Drafts.
Whoever has in his or her possession 10 or more similar false, altered, forged, or counterfeit notes, bills of credit, bank bills, checks, drafts, or...
- 831.09 - Uttering Forged Bills, Checks, Drafts, Or Notes.
Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true, any such false, altered, forged, or counterfeit note, or any bank bill, check, draft, or...
- 831.10 - Second Conviction Of Uttering Forged Bills.
A person previously convicted of violating s. 831.09 who is again convicted of that offense committed after the former conviction and on three distinct charges...
- 831.11 - Bringing Into The State Forged Bank Bills, Checks, Drafts, Or Notes.
Whoever brings into this state or has in his or her possession a false, forged, or counterfeit bill, check, draft, or note in the similitude...
- 831.12 - Fraudulently Connecting Parts Of Genuine Instrument.
Whoever fraudulently connects together parts of several banknotes, checks, drafts, or other genuine instruments in such a manner as to produce one additional note, check,...
- 831.13 - Having In Possession Uncurrent Bills.
Whoever has in his or her possession at the same time five or more uncurrent bank bills or notes, knowing the same to be worthless,...
- 831.14 - Uttering Uncurrent Bills.
Whoever utters, or passes or tenders in payment as true, any such worthless and uncurrent bank bill or note, or any paper not a bank...
- 831.15 - Counterfeiting Coin; Having 10 Or More Such Coins In Possession With Intent To Utter.
Whoever counterfeits any gold, silver, or any metallic money coin, current by law or usage within this state, or has in his or her possession...
- 831.16 - Having Fewer Than 10 Counterfeit Coins In Possession With Intent To Utter.
Whoever has in his or her possession any number of pieces fewer than 10 of the counterfeit coin mentioned in s. 831.15, knowing the same...
- 831.17 - Violation Of S. 831.16; Second Or Subsequent Conviction.
A person previously convicted of violating s. 831.16 who is again convicted of violating that statute committed after the former conviction on three distinct charges...
- 831.18 - Making Or Possessing Instruments For Forging Bills.
Whoever engraves, makes, or amends, or begins to engrave, make, or amend, any plate, block, press, or other tool, instrument, or implement, or makes or...
- 831.19 - Making Or Having Instruments For Counterfeiting Coin.
Whoever casts, stamps, engraves, makes or amends, or knowingly has in his or her possession any mould, pattern, die, puncheon, engine, press or other tool...
- 831.20 - Counterfeit Bills And Counterfeiters’ Tools To Be Seized.
When false, forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or plates, dies or other tools, instruments or implements used by counterfeiters, designed for the forging...
- 831.21 - Forging Or Counterfeiting Doctor’s Certificate Of Examination.
Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any doctor’s certificate or record of examination to an application for a policy of insurance, or knowing such...
- 831.22 - Damaging Bank Bills.
Whoever willfully and maliciously cuts, or in any manner damages and impairs the usefulness for circulation of any bank bill or note of any bank...
- 831.23 - Impeding Circulation.
Whoever maliciously gathers up or retains or maliciously does any gathering up or retaining any bills or notes of any bank or banking company current...
- 831.24 - Issuing Shop Bills Similar To Bank Notes.
Whoever engraves, prints, issues, utters or circulates a shop bill or advertisement in the similitude, form and appearance of a bank bill, on paper similar...
- 831.25 - Bringing Private Bills Similar To Bank Bills Into The State.
Whoever brings into this state, with intent to pass the same therein, any bills or notes in the likeness of banknotes, which said bills or...
- 831.26 - Circulating Any Substitute For Regular Currency.
Whoever issues or circulates, or causes to be issued or circulated, or assists in issuing or circulating as a substitute in any respect for the...
- 831.27 - Issuing Notes.
Whoever issues any note, bill, order, or check, other than foreign bills of exchange and notes or bills of some bank or company incorporated by...
- 831.28 - Counterfeiting A Payment Instrument; Possessing A Counterfeit Payment Instrument; Penalties.
(1) As used in this section, the term “counterfeit” means the manufacture of or arrangement to manufacture a payment instrument, as defined in s. 560.103, without...
- 831.29 - Making Or Having Instruments And Material For Counterfeiting Driver Licenses Or Identification Cards.
Any person who has control, custody, or possession of any plate, block, press, stone, or other tool, instrument, or implement, or any part thereof; engraves,...
- 831.30 - Medicinal Drugs; Fraud In Obtaining.
Whoever:(1) Falsely makes, alters, or forges any prescription, as defined in s. 465.003, for a medicinal drug other than a drug controlled by chapter 893;(2) Knowingly causes...
- 831.31 - Counterfeit Controlled Substance; Sale, Manufacture, Delivery, Or Possession With Intent To Sell, Manufacture, Or Deliver.
(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell, manufacture, or deliver, or to possess with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, a counterfeit controlled substance....
- 831.311 - Unlawful Sale, Manufacture, Alteration, Delivery, Uttering, Or Possession Of Counterfeit-resistant Prescription Blanks For Controlled Substances.
(1) It is unlawful for any person having the intent to injure or defraud any person or to facilitate any violation of s. 893.13 to sell,...
Last modified: September 23, 2016