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2016 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-62 - Works of Art Artists' Rights
Section 5-62-10 - Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar written instrument.
RI Gen L § 5-62-10 (2016) What's This?
§ 5-62-10 Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar written instrument.
A person who, with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, makes, utters or issues a certificate of authenticity, or any similar written instrument for a work of fine art attesting to material facts which the work does not in fact possess, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2000, ch. 429, § 2.)
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