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      21-3820.   Simulating legal process. (a) Simulating legal process is:

      (1)   Sending or delivering to another any document which simulates or purports to be, or is designed to cause others to believe it to be, a summons, petition, complaint, or other judicial process, with intent thereby to induce payment of a claim; or

      (2)   printing, distributing or offering for sale any such document, knowing or intending that it shall be so used.

      (b)   Subsection (a) does not apply to the printing, distribution or sale of blank forms of legal documents intended for actual use in judicial proceedings.

      (c)   Simulating legal process is a class A nonperson misdemeanor.

      History:   L. 1969, ch. 180, § 21-3820; L. 1992, ch. 298, § 56; L. 1993, ch. 291, § 113; July 1.