2006 Utah Code - 76-6-501 — Forgery -- "Writing" defined.

     76-6-501.   Forgery -- "Writing" defined.
     (1) A person is guilty of forgery if, with purpose to defraud anyone, or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, he:
     (a) alters any writing of another without his authority or utters any such altered writing; or
     (b) makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues, transfers, publishes, or utters any writing so that the writing or the making, completion, execution, authentication, issuance, transference, publication or utterance purports to be the act of another, whether the person is existent or nonexistent, or purports to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case, or to be a copy of an original when no such original existed.
     (2) As used in this section, "writing" includes printing, electronic storage or transmission, or any other method of recording valuable information including forms such as:
     (a) checks, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, money, and any other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification;
     (b) a security, revenue stamp, or any other instrument or writing issued by a government or any agency; or
     (c) a check, an issue of stocks, bonds, or any other instrument or writing representing an interest in or claim against property, or a pecuniary interest in or claim against any person or enterprise.
     (3) Forgery is a felony of the third degree.

Amended by Chapter 205, 1996 General Session