GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 397

SENATE BILL 469

 

AN ACT TO MODERNIZE THE FORGERY LAW TO MAKE CLEAR THAT IT APPLIES TO CHECKS OF SAVINGS AND LOANS, CREDIT UNIONS, AND FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14-119 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 14-119.  Forgery of notes, checks, and other securities. - (a) If a person makes, forges, or counterfeits:

(1)       Any bill, note, warrant, check, order, or similar instrument in imitation of, or purporting to be, a bill, note, warrant, check, order, or similar instrument of or on any financial institution or governmental unit, or any cashier or officer of such an institution or unit; or

(2)       Any security purporting to be issued by, or on behalf of, any corporation, financial institution, or governmental unit, with the intent to injure or defraud any person, corporation, financial institution, or governmental unit, he shall be punished as a Class I felon.

(b)       For purposes of this section:

(1)       'Financial institution' means any mutual fund, money market fund, credit union, savings and loan association, bank, or similar institution.

(2)       'Governmental unit' means the United States, any United States territory, any state of the United States, or any political subdivision of any state."

Sec. 2.  G.S. 14-120 is amended by substituting "instrument" for "bill, note, order, check or security" on line three, and by substituting "G.S. 14-119" for "the preceding section".

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective for offenses committed on or after October 1, 1983.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of May, 1983.