Tex. Penal Code § 32.24 · Subchapter B. FORGERY
STEALING OR RECEIVING STOLEN CHECK OR SIMILAR SIGHT ORDER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person steals an unsigned check or similar sight order or, with knowledge that an unsigned check or similar sight order has been stolen, receives the check or sight order with intent to use it, to sell it, or to transfer it to a person other than the person from whom the check or sight order was stolen.
(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1413, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 832 (S.B. 1451), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.32.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 555214f03f87edb0c022867d6fbd4fa8234eebb7325576bf12c6b692011232cb
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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