Judiciary II - Criminal Law Committee
Filed: 3/11/2010
 
 

 




 

 		












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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 5749 




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    AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 5749 by replacing 
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everything after the enacting clause with the following:

 
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    "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended  by 
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changing Section 17-3 as follows:
 
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    (720 ILCS 5/17-3)  (from Ch. 38, par. 17-3)
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    Sec. 17-3. Forgery. 
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    (a) A person commits forgery when, with intent to defraud, 
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he knowingly:
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        (1) makes or alters any document apparently capable of 
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    defrauding
another in such manner that it: (A) purports to 
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    have been made by another or at
another time, or with 
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    different provisions, or by authority of one who did
not 
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    give such authority, or (B) contains materially false 
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    information; or
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        (2) issues or delivers such document knowing it to have 
 


 






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    been thus
made or altered; or
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        (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any 
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    such document
knowing it to have been thus made or altered; 
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    or
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        (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined 
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    in the Financial
Institutions Electronic Documents and 
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    Digital Signature Act, of another; or
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        (5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to 
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    create
an electronic signature of that other person, as 
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    those terms are defined in the
Electronic Commerce Security 
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    Act.
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    (b) An intent to defraud means an intention to cause 
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another to assume,
create, transfer, alter or terminate any 
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right, obligation or power with
reference to any person or 
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property.
As used in this Section, "document" includes, but is 
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not limited to, any
document, representation, or image produced 
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manually, electronically, or by
computer.
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    (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another 
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includes, but is
not limited to, one by which any right, 
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obligation or power with reference
to any person or property 
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may be created, transferred, altered or
terminated.  A document 
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includes any record or electronic record as those
terms are 
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defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act.
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    (d) Sentence.
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    Forgery is a Class 3 felony.
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(Source: P.A. 94-458, eff. 8-4-05.)".