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| 1 | AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by changing | ||||||
| 5 | Section 17-3 as follows: | ||||||
| 6 | (720 ILCS 5/17-3) (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 17-3. Forgery. | ||||||
| 8 | (a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud, | ||||||
| 9 | he knowingly: | ||||||
| 10 | (1) makes or alters any document apparently capable of | ||||||
| 11 | defrauding
another in such manner that it: (A) purports to | ||||||
| 12 | have been made by another or at
another time, or with | ||||||
| 13 | different provisions, or by authority of one who did
not | ||||||
| 14 | give such authority, or (B) contains materially false | ||||||
| 15 | information; or | ||||||
| 16 | (2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have | ||||||
| 17 | been thus
made or altered; or | ||||||
| 18 | (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any | ||||||
| 19 | such document
knowing it to have been thus made or altered; | ||||||
| 20 | or | ||||||
| 21 | (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined | ||||||
| 22 | in the Financial
Institutions Electronic Documents and | ||||||
| 23 | Digital Signature Act, of another; or | ||||||
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| 1 | (5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to | ||||||
| 2 | create
an electronic signature of that other person, as | ||||||
| 3 | those terms are defined in the
Electronic Commerce Security | ||||||
| 4 | Act. | ||||||
| 5 | (b) An intent to defraud means an intention to cause | ||||||
| 6 | another to assume,
create, transfer, alter or terminate any | ||||||
| 7 | right, obligation or power with
reference to any person or | ||||||
| 8 | property.
As used in this Section, "document" includes, but is | ||||||
| 9 | not limited to, any
document, representation, or image produced | ||||||
| 10 | manually, electronically, or by
computer. | ||||||
| 11 | (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another | ||||||
| 12 | includes, but is
not limited to, one by which any right, | ||||||
| 13 | obligation or power with reference
to any person or property | ||||||
| 14 | may be created, transferred, altered or
terminated. A document | ||||||
| 15 | includes any record or electronic record as those
terms are | ||||||
| 16 | defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. | ||||||
| 17 | (d) Sentence. | ||||||
| 18 | Forgery is a Class 3 felony. | ||||||
| 19 | (Source: P.A. 94-458, eff. 8-4-05.)
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