570.090. Forgery — penalty.
Faking or changing documents to trick someone is a crime.
If you change, make up, or use false documents, receipts, or codes to deceive someone, you can be charged with forgery. It doesn’t matter if it’s a signature, date, UPC, or other item—it’s still a felony.
1. You commit forgery if you try to trick or cheat someone by doing any of the following:
- Make, change, or complete a document so it looks like someone else made it, or at a different time, place, or with different terms.
- Erase, destroy, or cover up writing to make it say something else.
- Change something that isn’t a document—like a receipt or barcode—to make it seem real or valuable when it isn’t.
- Use or try to use something you know is fake, or give it to someone else knowing they’ll try to use it as if it were real.
2. Forgery is a class D felony.
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