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2025 Texas Statutes
Penal Code
Title 7 - Offenses Against Property
Chapter 32 - Fraud
Subchapter B. Forgery
Section 32.24. Stealing or Receiving Stolen Check or Similar Sight Order
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TX Penal Code § 32.24 (2025)
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Sec. 32.24. STEALING OR RECEIVING STOLEN CHECK OR SIMILAR SIGHT ORDER. (a) A person commits an offense if the person steals an unsigned check or similar sight order or, with knowledge that an unsigned check or similar sight order has been stolen, receives the check or sight order with intent to use it, to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the person from whom the check or sight order was stolen.
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1413, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 832 (S.B. 1451), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
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