Full Text of HB5749 96th General Assembly
HB5749ham001 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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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 | 3 |
| everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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| "Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by | 5 |
| changing 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 |
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| been thus
made or altered; or | 2 |
| (3) possesses, with intent to issue or deliver, any | 3 |
| such document
knowing it to have been thus made or altered; | 4 |
| or | 5 |
| (4) unlawfully uses the digital signature, as defined | 6 |
| in the Financial
Institutions Electronic Documents and | 7 |
| Digital Signature Act, of another; or | 8 |
| (5) unlawfully uses the signature device of another to | 9 |
| create
an electronic signature of that other person, as | 10 |
| those terms are defined in the
Electronic Commerce Security | 11 |
| Act. | 12 |
| (b) An intent to defraud means an intention to cause | 13 |
| another to assume,
create, transfer, alter or terminate any | 14 |
| right, obligation or power with
reference to any person or | 15 |
| property.
As used in this Section, "document" includes, but is | 16 |
| not limited to, any
document, representation, or image produced | 17 |
| manually, electronically, or by
computer. | 18 |
| (c) A document apparently capable of defrauding another | 19 |
| includes, but is
not limited to, one by which any right, | 20 |
| obligation or power with reference
to any person or property | 21 |
| may be created, transferred, altered or
terminated. A document | 22 |
| includes any record or electronic record as those
terms are | 23 |
| defined in the Electronic Commerce Security Act. | 24 |
| (d) Sentence. | 25 |
| Forgery is a Class 3 felony. | 26 |
| (Source: P.A. 94-458, eff. 8-4-05.)".
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