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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing |
| 5 | | Section 17-3 as follows:
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| 6 | | (720 ILCS 5/17-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3)
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| 7 | | Sec. 17-3. Forgery.
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| 8 | | (a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud, |
| 9 | | he or she knowingly:
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| 10 | | (1) makes a false document or alters any document to |
| 11 | | make it false and that document is apparently capable of |
| 12 | | defrauding
another; or
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| 13 | | (2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have |
| 14 | | been thus
made or altered; or
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| 15 | | (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any |
| 16 | | such document
knowing it to have been thus made or altered; |
| 17 | | or
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| 18 | | (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined |
| 19 | | in the Financial
Institutions Electronic Documents and |
| 20 | | Digital Signature Act, of another; or
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| 21 | | (5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to |
| 22 | | create
an electronic signature of that other person, as |
| 23 | | those terms are defined in the
Electronic Commerce Security |
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| 1 | | Act.
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| 2 | | (b) (Blank).
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| 3 | | (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another |
| 4 | | includes, but is
not limited to, one by which any right, |
| 5 | | obligation or power with reference
to any person or property |
| 6 | | may be created, transferred, altered or
terminated. A document |
| 7 | | includes any record or electronic record as those
terms are |
| 8 | | defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. For purposes |
| 9 | | of this Section, a document also includes a Universal Price |
| 10 | | Code Label or coin.
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| 11 | | (c-5) For purposes of this Section, "false document" or |
| 12 | | "document that is false" includes, but is not limited to, a |
| 13 | | document whose contents are false in some material way, or that |
| 14 | | purports to have been made by another or at another time, or |
| 15 | | with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not |
| 16 | | give such authority. |
| 17 | | (d) Sentence.
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| 18 | | (1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2), and (3), and |
| 19 | | (4), forgery is a Class 3 felony. |
| 20 | | (2) Forgery is a Class 4 felony when only one Universal |
| 21 | | Price Code Label is forged. |
| 22 | | (3) Forgery is a Class A misdemeanor when an academic |
| 23 | | degree or coin is forged.
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| 24 | | (4) Forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document |
| 25 | | purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit |
| 26 | | of government is forged. For the purposes of this paragraph |
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| 1 | | (4) only, the term "unit of government" means the federal |
| 2 | | government, the State, a unit of local government, a school |
| 3 | | district, or any agency or instrumentality, office, |
| 4 | | officer, department, division, bureau, commission, |
| 5 | | college, or university thereof. |
| 6 | | (e) It is not a violation of this Section if a false |
| 7 | | academic degree explicitly states "for novelty purposes only". |
| 8 | | (Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-231, eff. 1-1-12; |
| 9 | | 97-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)
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