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2014 New York Laws
PEN - Penal
Part 3 - SPECIFIC OFFENSES
Title K - OFFENSES INVOLVING FRAUD
Article 170 - (170.00 - 170.75) FORGERY AND RELATED OFFENSES
170.45 - Criminal simulation.

NY Penal L § 170.45 (2014) What's This?
170.45 Criminal simulation.

A person is guilty of criminal simulation when:

1.  With  intent  to  defraud,  he  makes or alters any object in such
  manner  that  it  appears  to  have  an  antiquity,  rarity,  source  or
  authorship which it does not in fact possess; or

2. With knowledge of its true character and with intent to defraud, he
  utters or possesses an object so simulated.

Criminal simulation is a class A misdemeanor.

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