US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  18
                            CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
                                  CHAPTER 36
                          FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING
    18-3606.  FICTITIOUS BILLS, NOTES, AND CHECKS -- MAKING, PASSING,
UTTERING, OR PUBLISHING. Every person who makes, passes, utters, or publishes,
with intention to defraud any other person, or who, with the like intention,
attempts to pass, utter or publish, or who has in his possession, with like
intent to utter, pass, or publish, any fictitious bill, note or check,
purporting to be the bill, note, or check, or other instrument in writing for
the payment of money or property of some bank, corporation, copartnership, or
individual, when in fact, there is no such bank, corporation, copartnership,
or individual in existence, knowing the bill, note, check, or instrument in
writing to be fictitious, is guilty of forgery and punishable as provided by
section 18-3604.