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The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLVI
CRIMES
Chapter 831
FORGERY AND COUNTERFEITING
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F.S. 831.09
831.09 Uttering forged bills, checks, drafts, or notes.Whoever utters or passes or tenders in payment as true, any such false, altered, forged, or counterfeit note, or any bank bill, check, draft, or promissory note, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, issued as aforesaid, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeit, with intent to injure or defraud any person, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.s. 6, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2487; GS 3368; RGS 5216; CGL 7334; s. 966, ch. 71-136; s. 10, ch. 2001-115.

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Amendments to 831.09


Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 831.09
Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

S831.09 - PASS FORGED - ALTER BANK BILL NOTE CHECK DRAFT - F: T
S831.09 - PASS COUNTERFEITED - BANK BILL CHECK DRAFT NOTE - F: T
S831.09 - FRAUD - UTTER FALSE BANK BILL NOTE CHECK DRAFT - F: T



Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

GRANT, v. STATE, 13 So. 3d 163 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2009)

. . . Ashley Ellen Grant appeals her conviction for uttering an altered check in violation of section 831.09 . . .

CHILDERS, v. STATE, 931 So. 2d 86 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

. . . See, e.g., §§ 831.01, 831.02, 831.07, 831.09, Fla. Stat. (2002). . . .

CHILDERS, v. STATE, 936 So. 2d 585 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2006)

. . . See, e.g., §§ 831.01, 831.02, 831.07, 831.09, Fla. Stat. (2002). . . .

BURKE, v. STATE, 475 So. 2d 252 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1985)

. . . The defendant was convicted of three counts of uttering a forged bill (§ 831.09, Fla.Stat.). . . . As for statutory construction the statute in this case (§ 831.09, FIa.Stat.) refers to "any” altered . . .

STATE v. DAVIS,, 358 So. 2d 887 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978)

. . . attempt to spend the same as a note of a higher denomination does not constitute an offense under Section 831.09 . . . Appellee was charged with uttering a forged bill in violation of Section 831.09. . . . appellee’s attorney argued that an altered two dollar bill was not one of the items covered by Section 831.09 . . . written numbers on a bank check did not constitute the uttering of a forged instrument under Section 831.09 . . . There remains the question of whether Section 831.09 includes this two dollar bill because the statute . . .

In IMPERIAL NATIONAL INC., 374 F. Supp. 949 (D.N.J. 1974)

. . . $1,000 claim Claim $1,000.00 Less: cash 244.46 Stock value 755.54 Plus 10% Step-Up . 75.55 Total Stock 831.09 . . . Number of shares: $831.09 = 35 5 shares 23.40 . . . .

a v., 7 T.C. 1014 (T.C. 1946)

. . . The petitioner, on May 28, 1936, paid to the special master in the foreclosure proceedings $831.09, representing . . .