Gov. Code, § 5503 · Chapter 6. Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act
Gov. Code, § 5503
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
Any person who with intent to defraud uses on a public security or an instrument of payment;
(a) A facsimile signature, or any reproduction of it, of any authorized officer, or
(b) Any facsimile seal, or any reproduction of it, of this State or any of its departments, agencies, or other instrumentalities, or of any county, city, or public district, is guilty of a felony.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1959, Ch. 1061.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=5503.
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- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
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