N.Y. PEN Law § 170.45
This is the official text of N.Y. PEN Law § 170.45, part of New York’s Penal Law — defines crimes and punishments in New York.
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Criminal simulation
Official statutory text
§ 170.45 Criminal simulation.\n A person is guilty of criminal simulation when:\n 1. With intent to defraud, he makes or alters any object in such\nmanner that it appears to have an antiquity, rarity, source or\nauthorship which it does not in fact possess; or\n 2. With knowledge of its true character and with intent to defraud, he\nutters or possesses an object so simulated.\n Criminal simulation is a class A misdemeanor.\n
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