2013 Iowa Code
TITLE XVI CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE
SUBTITLE 1 CRIME CONTROL AND CRIMINAL ACTS
CHAPTER 715A FORGERY AND RELATED FRAUDULENT CRIMINAL ACTS
715A.6A Prohibitions relating to false academic degrees, grades, or honors.
715A.6A Prohibitions relating to false academic degrees, grades, or honors.
1. As used in this section, academic degree means a diploma, certificate, license, transcript, or other document which signifies or purports to signify completion of the academic requirements of a secondary, postsecondary, professional, or governmental program of study.
2. A person commits a serious misdemeanor if the person, knowingly and willingly, does any of the following:
a. Falsely makes or alters, procures to be falsely made or altered, or assists in falsely making or altering, an academic degree.
b. Uses, offers, or presents as genuine, a falsely made or altered academic degree.
c. Sells, gives, purchases, or obtains, procures to be sold, given, purchased, or obtained, or assists in selling, giving, buying, or obtaining, a false academic degree.
d. Makes a false written representation relating to the person s academic grades, honors, or awards, or makes a false written representation that the person has received an academic degree from a specific secondary, postsecondary, professional institution, or governmental program of study, in an application for any of the following:
(1) Employment.
(2) Admission to an educational program.
(3) An award or other recognition.
(4) The issuance of an academic degree to the person.
96 Acts, ch 1039, §1
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