2009 Vermont Code
Title 13 - Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Chapter 43 - FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING (Contains: §§ 1801 – 1815)
§ 1804 -   Counterfeiting paper money

§ 1804. Counterfeiting paper money

A person who falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits, or procures to be made, altered, forged or counterfeited, or aids or assists in making, altering, forging or counterfeiting, a note, or imitation of, or purporting to be a note issued by the United States, used as currency, or a bank bill or promissory note, or imitation of, or purporting to be a bank bill or promissory note, issued by a banking company incorporated by the Congress of the United States or by the legislature of a state of the United States or of another country, with intent to injure or defraud a person; and a person who utters, passes or gives in payment, or offers to pass or give in payment, or procures to be offered, passed or given in payment, or has in his possession with intent to offer, pass or give in payment, such altered, forged, counterfeited or imitated note, bank bill or promissory note, knowing the same to be altered, forged, counterfeited or imitated, shall be imprisoned not more than 14 years and fined not more than $1,000.00, or both. (Amended 1971, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 15; 1981, No. 223 (Adj. Sess.), § 23.)

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