PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 710 PRINTER'S NO. 2461
No. 645 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY M. N. WRIGHT, VROON, JOHNSON, CAPPABIANCA, PESCI,
TRELLO, HAGARTY, FOX, SCHEETZ, MAYERNIK, ARGALL, STABACK,
LANGTRY, COLAFELLA, CAWLEY, G. SNYDER, FARMER, KING,
LAUGHLIN, SAURMAN, GEIST, CLARK, E. Z. TAYLOR, BATTISTO,
BELFANTI, BISHOP, R. C. WRIGHT AND JAMES, MARCH 12, 1991
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, OCTOBER 7, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, providing for forgery of uniform
3 police identification cards.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4101 of Title 18 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4101. Forgery.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of forgery if, with
10 intent to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that he is
11 facilitating a fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, the
12 actor:
13 (1) alters any writing of another without his authority;
14 (2) makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues or
15 transfers any writing so that it purports to be the act of
16 another who did not authorize that act, or to have been
1 executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other
2 than was in fact the case, or to be a copy of an original
3 when no such original existed; or
4 (3) utters any writing which he knows to be forged in a
5 manner specified in paragraphs (1) or (2) [of this
6 subsection].
7 (b) Definition.--As used in this section the word "writing"
8 includes printing or any other method of recording information,
9 money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges,
10 trademarks, and other symbols of value, right, privilege[,] or
11 identification, including uniform police identification cards. <--
12 (c) Grading.--Forgery is a felony of the second degree if
13 the writing is or purports to be part of an issue of money,
14 securities, postage or revenue stamps, or other instruments
15 issued by the government, or part of an issue of stock, bonds or
16 other instruments representing interests in or claims against
17 any property or enterprise, or involves the forgery of uniform <--
18 police identification cards. Forgery is a felony of the third
19 degree if the writing is or purports to be a will, deed,
20 contract, release, commercial instrument, or other document
21 evidencing, creating, transferring, altering, terminating, or
22 otherwise affecting legal relations. Otherwise forgery is a
23 misdemeanor of the first degree.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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