§ 472

Forging public or corporate seals

See penalty details+ Fraud & Money Title 13, Ch. 4 · Forgery and Counterfeiting

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.