Chapter 831 — Chapter 831
36 sections in this chapter.
Fla. Stat. § 831.01 Forgery
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Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits a public record, or a certificate, return or attestation of any clerk or register of a court, public register, notary public, town clerk or any public officer, in relation to a matter wherein such certificate, return or attest…
Fla. Stat. § 831.02 Uttering forged instruments
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Whoever utters and publishes as true a false, forged or altered record, deed, instrument or other writing mentioned in s. 831.01 knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited, with intent to injure or defraud any person, shall be guilty of a felony of the third d…
Fla. Stat. § 831.025 Evidence in prosecution for forgery or counterfeiting
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In prosecutions for forging or counterfeiting notes or bills of banks, or for uttering, publishing, or tendering in payment as true, any forged or counterfeit bank bills, or notes, or for being possessed thereof with intent to utter and pass the same as true, the testimony of the…
Fla. Stat. § 831.03 Forging or counterfeiting private labels; definitions
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As used in ss. 831.03-831.034, the term:(1) “Bodily injury” means:(a) A cut, abrasion, bruise, burn, or disfigurement;(b) Physical pain;(c) Illness;(d) Impairment of the function of a bodily member, organ, or mental faculty; or(e) Any other injury to the body, no matter how tempo…
Fla. Stat. § 831.031 Evidence
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In any proceeding under or related to ss. 831.03-831.034:(1) Proof that a person is in possession of more than 25 goods, labels, patches, stickers, wrappers, badges, emblems, medallions, charms, boxes, containers, cans, cases, hangtags, documentation, or packaging or any other co…
Fla. Stat. § 831.032 Offenses involving forging or counterfeiting private labels
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(1) Whoever, knowingly and willfully, forges or counterfeits, or causes or procures to be forged or counterfeited, manufactures, distributes or transports, or possesses with intent to distribute or transport, upon or in connection with any goods or services, the trademark or serv…
Fla. Stat. § 831.033 Forging or counterfeiting private labels; destruction; forfeiture
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(1)(a) Any goods to which forged or counterfeit trademarks or service marks are attached or affixed or any tools or other materials for the reproduction of any specific forged or counterfeit trademark or service mark which are produced or possessed in violation of this section ma…
Fla. Stat. § 831.034 Prosecutions
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Notwithstanding any other provision of the law, prosecution may be had for any and all violations of ss. 831.03-831.033 and for any other criminal violations that may apply. Prosecution for violation of any of the offenses described in ss. 831.03-831.033 shall not be construed to…
Fla. Stat. § 831.04 Penalty for changing or forging certain instruments of writing
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(1) Any person making any erasure, alteration, interlineation or interpolation in any writing or instrument mentioned in s. 92.28, and made admissible in evidence, with the fraudulent intent to change the same in any substantial manner after the same has once been made, shall be …
Fla. Stat. § 831.06 Fictitious signature of officer of corporation
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If a fictitious or pretended signature, purporting to be the signature of an officer or agent of a corporation, is fraudulently affixed to any instrument or writing purporting to be a note, draft or evidence of debt issued by such corporation, with intent to pass the same as true…
Fla. Stat. § 831.07 Forging bank bills, checks, drafts, or promissory notes
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Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits a bank bill, check, draft, or promissory note payable to the bearer thereof, or to the order of any person, issued by an incorporated banking company established in this state, or within the United States, or any foreign prov…
Fla. Stat. § 831.08 Possessing certain forged notes, bills, checks, or drafts
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Whoever has in his or her possession 10 or more similar false, altered, forged, or counterfeit notes, bills of credit, bank bills, checks, drafts, or notes, such as are mentioned in any of the preceding sections of this chapter, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of an…
Fla. Stat. § 831.09 Uttering forged bills, checks, drafts, or notes
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Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true, any such false, altered, forged, or counterfeit note, or any bank bill, check, draft, or promissory note, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, altere…
Fla. Stat. § 831.10 Second conviction of uttering forged bills
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A person previously convicted of violating s. 831.09 who is again convicted of that offense committed after the former conviction and on three distinct charges of such offense committed within a 6-month period shall be deemed a common utterer of counterfeit bills, and shall be pu…
Fla. Stat. § 831.11 Bringing into the state forged bank bills, checks, drafts, or notes
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Whoever brings into this state or has in his or her possession a false, forged, or counterfeit bill, check, draft, or note in the similitude of the bills or notes payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person issued by or for any bank or banking company established …
Fla. Stat. § 831.12 Fraudulently connecting parts of genuine instrument
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Whoever fraudulently connects together parts of several banknotes, checks, drafts, or other genuine instruments in such a manner as to produce one additional note, check, draft, or instrument, with intent to pass all of them as genuine, commits forgery as if each of them had been…
Fla. Stat. § 831.13 Having in possession uncurrent bills
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Whoever has in his or her possession at the same time five or more uncurrent bank bills or notes, knowing the same to be worthless, or has papers, not bank bills or notes but made in the similitude of bank bills or notes of any bank which has never existed, knowing the character …
Fla. Stat. § 831.14 Uttering uncurrent bills
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Whoever utters, or passes or tenders in payment as true, any such worthless and uncurrent bank bill or note, or any paper not a bank bill or note but made in the similitude of a bank bill or note, or any paper purporting to be the bill or note of any bank which has never existed,…
Fla. Stat. § 831.15 Counterfeiting coin; having 10 or more such coins in possession with intent to utter
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Whoever counterfeits any gold, silver, or any metallic money coin, current by law or usage within this state, or has in his or her possession at the same time 10 or more pieces of false money, or coin counterfeited in the similitude of any gold, silver or metallic coin; current a…
Fla. Stat. § 831.16 Having fewer than 10 counterfeit coins in possession with intent to utter
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Whoever has in his or her possession any number of pieces fewer than 10 of the counterfeit coin mentioned in s. 831.15, knowing the same to be counterfeit, with intent to utter or pass the same as true, or who utters, passes or tenders in payment as true any such counterfeit coin…
Fla. Stat. § 831.17 Violation of s. 831.16; second or subsequent conviction
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A person previously convicted of violating s. 831.16 who is again convicted of violating that statute committed after the former conviction on three distinct charges of such offense committed within a 6-month period commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in…
Fla. Stat. § 831.18 Making or possessing instruments for forging bills
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Whoever engraves, makes, or amends, or begins to engrave, make, or amend, any plate, block, press, or other tool, instrument, or implement, or makes or provides any paper or other material, adapted and designed for the making of a false and counterfeit note, certificate, or other…
Fla. Stat. § 831.19 Making or having instruments for counterfeiting coin
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Whoever casts, stamps, engraves, makes or amends, or knowingly has in his or her possession any mould, pattern, die, puncheon, engine, press or other tool or instrument, adapted and designed for coining or making counterfeit coin in the similitude of any gold, silver or metallic …
Fla. Stat. § 831.20 Counterfeit bills and counterfeiters’ tools to be seized
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When false, forged or counterfeit bank bills or notes, or plates, dies or other tools, instruments or implements used by counterfeiters, designed for the forging or making of false or counterfeit notes, coin or bills, or worthless and uncurrent bank bills or notes described in th…
Fla. Stat. § 831.21 Forging or counterfeiting doctor’s certificate of examination
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Whoever falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any doctor’s certificate or record of examination to an application for a policy of insurance, or knowing such doctor’s certificate or record of examination to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, passes, utter…
Fla. Stat. § 831.22 Damaging bank bills
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Whoever willfully and maliciously cuts, or in any manner damages and impairs the usefulness for circulation of any bank bill or note of any bank in this state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.083, but the possession or utteri…
Fla. Stat. § 831.23 Impeding circulation
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Whoever maliciously gathers up or retains or maliciously does any gathering up or retaining any bills or notes of any bank or banking company current by law or usage in this state for the purpose of endangering or impeding the circulation or business of such bank or banking compa…
Fla. Stat. § 831.24 Issuing shop bills similar to bank notes
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Whoever engraves, prints, issues, utters or circulates a shop bill or advertisement in the similitude, form and appearance of a bank bill, on paper similar to paper used for bank bills, with vignettes, figures or decoration used on bank bills, or having the general appearance of …
Fla. Stat. § 831.25 Bringing private bills similar to bank bills into the state
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Whoever brings into this state, with intent to pass the same therein, any bills or notes in the likeness of banknotes, which said bills or notes are or have been issued by private individuals or private unincorporated companies in any or either of the states in the United States,…
Fla. Stat. § 831.26 Circulating any substitute for regular currency
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Whoever issues or circulates, or causes to be issued or circulated, or assists in issuing or circulating as a substitute in any respect for the currency recognized by law, any scrip, notes, bills, or any other written, engraved or lithographed paper payable in anything other than…
Fla. Stat. § 831.27 Issuing notes
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Whoever issues any note, bill, order, or check, other than foreign bills of exchange and notes or bills of some bank or company incorporated by the laws of this state, or by the laws of the United States, or by the laws of Canada, with intent that the same be circulated as curren…
Fla. Stat. § 831.28 Counterfeiting a payment instrument; possessing a counterfeit payment instrument; penalties
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(1) As used in this section, the term “counterfeit” means the manufacture of or arrangement to manufacture a payment instrument, as defined in s. 560.103, without the permission of the financial institution, account holder, or organization whose name, routing number, or account n…
Fla. Stat. § 831.29 Making or having instruments and material for counterfeiting driver licenses or identification cards
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Any person who has control, custody, or possession of any plate, block, press, stone, or other tool, instrument, or implement, or any part thereof; engraves, makes, or amends, or begins to engrave, make, or amend, any plate, block, press, stone, or other tool, instrument, or impl…
Fla. Stat. § 831.30 Medicinal drugs; fraud in obtaining
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Whoever:(1) Falsely makes, alters, or forges any prescription, as defined in s. 465.003, for a medicinal drug other than a drug controlled by chapter 893;(2) Knowingly causes such prescription to be falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited; or(3) Passes, utters, or publish…
Fla. Stat. § 831.31 Counterfeit controlled substance; sale, manufacture, delivery, or possession with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver
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(1) It is unlawful for any person to sell, manufacture, or deliver, or to possess with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, a counterfeit controlled substance. Any person who violates this subsection with respect to:(a) A controlled substance named or described in s. 893.03(1…
Fla. Stat. § 831.311 Unlawful sale, manufacture, alteration, delivery, uttering, or possession of counterfeit-resistant prescription blanks for controlled substances
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(1) It is unlawful for any person having the intent to injure or defraud any person or to facilitate any violation of s. 893.13 to sell, manufacture, alter, deliver, utter, or possess with intent to injure or defraud any person, or to facilitate any violation of s. 893.13, any co…