GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
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SENATE BILL 924*
     

 
Short Title:	Amend Counterfeiting & Forgery Law.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Clodfelter; and Hartsell.	
Referred to:	Judiciary I.	
April 5, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the law regarding the counterfeiting of instruments.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article 21 of Chapter 14 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 14-119.1.  Counterfeiting of instruments.
(a)	The following definitions apply in this section:
(1)	Counterfeited. – A document that purports to be genuine, but is not, because it has been falsely made, manufactured, embossed, encoded, duplicated, or altered.
(2)	Instrument. – Defined in G.S. 25-3-104.
(b)	Any person who makes, manufactures, buys, sells, exchanges, transfers, tenders, or receives a counterfeited instrument with the intent that the same be passed or used as true and genuine shall be guilty of a Class H felony.
(c)	Any person with the intent to defraud who transports in interstate commerce or possesses three or more counterfeited instruments shall be guilty of a Class G felony."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2001, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.