Bill Text: MI HB5921 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Crimes; forgery; provision related to sworn certificates made evidence; modify. Amends sec. 257 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.257).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-03 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/02/2018 [HB5921 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2017-HB5921-Introduced.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL No. 5921

 

 

May 2, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Kahle and referred to the Committee on Financial Services.

 

     A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

 

"The Michigan penal code,"

 

by amending section 257 (MCL 750.257).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 257. Sworn certificate made evidence— In all prosecutions

 

for forging or counterfeiting any note, certificate, bills of

 

credit, or other security issued in on behalf of the United States,

 

or in on behalf of any state or territory, or for uttering,

 

publishing, or tendering in payment as true , any such forged or

 

counterfeit note, certificate, bill of credit, or security, or for

 

being possessed thereof possessing a forged or counterfeit note,

 

certificate, bill of credit, or security with the intent to utter

 

or pass the same forged or counterfeit note, certificate, bill of

 

credit, or security as true, the certificate under oath of the

 


secretary of the treasury, or of the treasurer of the United

 

States, an officer, employee, or agent of the United States

 

Department of the Treasury, the United States Department of

 

Homeland Security, or the United States Secret Service, who is

 

authorized to sign a sworn certificate, or of the secretary or

 

treasurer of any state or territory on whose behalf such note,

 

certificate, bill of credit, or security , purports to have been

 

issued, shall must be admitted as evidence for the purpose of

 

proving the note, certificate, bill of credit, or security same to

 

be is forged or counterfeit.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.

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