Forging public or corporate seals
Official text prohibited actmental stateif conditionpenaltylegal term
Every person who, with intent to defraud another, forges, or counterfeits the seal of this State, the seal of any public officer authorized by law, the seal of any Court of record, or the seal of any corporation, or any other public seal authorized or recognized by the laws of this State, or of any other State, Government, or country, or who falsely makes, forges, or counterfeits any impression purporting to be an impression of any such seal, or who has in his possession any such counterfeited seal or impression thereof, knowing it to be counterfeited, and conceals the same, is guilty of forgery.
History: Enacted 1872.
Simplified explanation
Forging or counterfeiting a state, court, public officer's, or corporate seal or its impression, or possessing and concealing a known counterfeit seal, with intent to defraud is forgery; the punishment is set in Section 473.