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Can you summarize 13A ALCA Chapter 9, Article 1?
FORGERY AND FRAUDULENT PRACTICES. > Forgery and Related Offenses.
Short Summary
The provided legal document content pertains to the Code of Alabama’s Criminal Code section on Forgery and Fraudulent Practices. It covers various offenses related to forgery and fraudulent practices, including submitting false or fraudulent applications for certificates or licenses, giving false names or addresses to law enforcement officers, making, emitting, signing, or countersigning unauthorized papers, criminal impersonation, illegal possession or fraudulent use of credit cards or debit cards, reporting false loss or theft of credit cards, unlawfully using slugs in coin machines, negotiation of worthless negotiable instruments, offering false instruments for recording, criminal simulation, obtaining a signature by deception, criminal possession of a forgery device, and possession or utterance of forged instruments. The document provides definitions for key terms and specifies the penalties associated with each offense. The penalties range from Class A misdemeanor to Class B felony, depending on the severity of the offense. No specific exemptions are mentioned in the document.
Whom does it apply to?
Any person involved in the creation, completion, or alteration of written instruments
What does it govern?
Forgery and Related Offenses
What are exemptions?
No exemptions are mentioned.
What are the Penalties?
Class A misdemeanor, Class B misdemeanor, Class C felony, Class D felony, Class B felony
Jurisdiction
Alabama