98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB1561

 

Introduced , by Rep. Tom Demmer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
720 ILCS 5/17-3  from Ch. 38, par. 17-3

    Amends the Criminal Code of 2012. Provides that forgery is a Class 2 felony when a document purporting to be an invoice or receipt issued by any unit of government is forged. Defines "unit of government".


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 2012 is amended by changing
5Section 17-3 as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/17-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3)
7    Sec. 17-3. Forgery.
8    (a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud,
9he or she knowingly:
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
13        (2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have
14    been thus made or altered; or
15        (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any
16    such document knowing it to have been thus made or altered;
17    or
18        (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined
19    in the Financial Institutions Electronic Documents and
20    Digital Signature Act, of another; or
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.
2    (b) (Blank).
3    (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another
4includes, but is not limited to, one by which any right,
5obligation or power with reference to any person or property
6may be created, transferred, altered or terminated. A document
7includes any record or electronic record as those terms are
8defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. For purposes
9of this Section, a document also includes a Universal Price
10Code Label or coin.
11    (c-5) For purposes of this Section, "false document" or
12"document that is false" includes, but is not limited to, a
13document whose contents are false in some material way, or that
14purports to have been made by another or at another time, or
15with different provisions, or by authority of one who did not
16give such authority.
17    (d) Sentence.
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.
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
7academic degree explicitly states "for novelty purposes only".
8(Source: P.A. 96-1551, eff. 7-1-11; 97-231, eff. 1-1-12;
997-1109, eff. 1-1-13.)