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2020 California Code
Penal Code - PEN
PART 1 - OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
TITLE 13 - OF CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY
CHAPTER 4 - Forgery and Counterfeiting
Section 471.
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CA Penal Code § 471 (2020)
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Every person who, with intent to defraud another, makes, forges, or alters any entry in any book of records, or any instrument purporting to be any record or return specified in Section 470, is guilty of forgery.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 787, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2003.)
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