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35 ILCS 130/22

(35 ILCS 130/22) (from Ch. 120, par. 453.22)

Sec. 22.

Any person who (a) falsely or fraudulently makes, forges, alters
or counterfeits any stamp provided for herein, (b) causes or procures to be
falsely or fraudulently made, forged, altered or counterfeited any such
stamp, (c) knowingly and wilfully utters, publishes, passes or tenders as
genuine any such false, altered, forged or counterfeited stamp, (d) falsely
or fraudulently makes, forges, alters or counterfeits any tax imprint on an
original package of cigarettes inside a sealed transparent wrapper, (e)
causes or procures falsely or fraudulently to be made, forged, altered or
counterfeited any such tax imprint or (f) knowingly and wilfully utters,
publishes, passes or tenders as genuine any such false, altered, forged or
counterfeited tax imprint, for the purpose of evading the tax imposed by
this Act shall be guilty of a Class 2 felony.

(Source: P.A. 83-1428.)