Oklahoma § 21-1575 - False bank note plates

§ 21-1575. False bank note plates

Every person who, makes or engraves, or causes or procures to be

made or engraved, any plate in the form or similitude of any

promissory note, bill of exchange, draft, check, certificate of

deposit or other evidence of debt issued by any banking corporation

or association, or individual banker, incorporated or carrying on

business under the laws of this state, or of any other state,

government or country, without the authority of such bank, or has or

keeps in his custody or possession any such plate, without the

authority of such bank, with intent to use or permit the same to be

used for the purpose of taking therefrom any impression, to be

passed, sold or altered, or has or keeps in his custody or

possession, without the authority of such bank, any impression taken

from any such plate, with intent to have the same filled up and

completed for the purpose of being passed, sold or altered; or makes

or causes to be made, or has in his custody or possession, any plate

upon which are engraved any figures, or words, which may be used for

the purpose of falsely altering any evidence of debt issued by any

such bank, with intent to use the same, or to permit them to be used

for such purpose, is guilty of forgery in the second degree.

R.L.1910, § 2627.