2006 Code of Virginia § 18.2-171 - Making or having anything designed for forging any writing, etc

18.2-171. Making or having anything designed for forging any writing, etc.

If any person engrave, stamp, or cast, or otherwise make or mend, any plate,block, press, or other thing, adapted and designed for the forging and falsemaking of any writing or other thing, the forging or false making whereof ispunishable by this chapter, or if such person have in possession any suchplate, block, press, or other thing, with intent to use, or cause or permitit to be used, in forging or false making any such writing or other thing, heshall be guilty of a Class 4 felony.

(Code 1950, 18.1-95; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15.)

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