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2012 New York Consolidated Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title K - OFFENSES INVOLVING FRAUD
Article 170 - (170.00 - 170.75) FORGERY AND RELATED OFFENSES
170.20 - Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree.


NY Penal L § 170.20 (2012) What's This?
 
  § 170.20 Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree.
    A  person  is  guilty of criminal possession of a forged instrument in
  the third degree when, with knowledge that it is forged and with  intent
  to  defraud,  deceive or injure another, he utters or possesses a forged
  instrument.
    Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third  degree  is  a
  class A misdemeanor.

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