Tennessee § 59-4-207 - Penalty for forging or falsifying certificates.
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§ 59-4-207. Penalty for forging or falsifying certificates.
Any person who forges or counterfeits a certificate, or knowingly makes or causes to be made any false statement in any certificate or in any official copy of the same, or urges and influences others to do so, or utters or uses any such false certificate or unofficial copy thereof, or makes, gives, utters, produces, or makes use of any false declaration, representation, or statement in any such certificate or copy thereof, or any document containing same, is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor. Acts 1915, ch. 169, § 17; Shan., § 3079a109; Code 1932, § 5592; Acts 1953, ch. 86, § 31 (Williams §§ 5592, 5638.31); T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 58-410; Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 113. Cross-References. Penalty for Class C misdemeanor, § 40-35-111 .
Source: official Tennessee text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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