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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
RPP - Real Property
Article 12 - (370 - 436) REGISTERING TITLE TO REAL PROPERTY
431 - Forgery and fraudulent stamping; penalty.
NY Real Prop L § 431 (2012) What's This?
§ 431. Forgery and fraudulent stamping; penalty. Whoever forges, or procures to be forged, or assists in forging, the seal of the registrar, or the name, signature, handwriting of any officer of the registrar's office; or fraudulently stamps or procures to be stamped, or assists in stamping, any document with any forged seal of said registrar, or forges or procures to be forged, or assists in forging, the name, signature or handwriting of any person whomsoever, to any instrument which is expressly or impliedly authorized to be signed by such person, or uses any document upon which any impression or part of the impression of any seal of said registrar has been forged, knowing the same to have been forged, or any document the signature to which has been forged, knowing the same to have been forged, or swears falsely concerning any matter or proceeding made or done in pursuance of this article, shall be guilty of a felony.
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