Full Text of HB5749 96th General Assembly
HB5749eng 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| AN ACT concerning criminal law.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| 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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| (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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