§ 831.06, Fla. Stat. · Chapter 831. FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING
Fictitious signature of officer of corporation.
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Text — 2026 Florida Statutes
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, it shall be deemed a forgery, though no such person may ever have been an officer or agent of such corporation, or ever have existed.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
s. 12, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2483; GS 3364; RGS 5212; CGL 7330.
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