---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 11.416"
title: "25"
number: "11.416"
heading: "Forgery."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/11.416"
---

# §11.416. Forgery.

- (a) A person is guilty of forgery, a misdemeanor, if, with purpose to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that he or she is facilitating fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, he or she:
  - (1) Alters, makes, completes, authenticates, issues or transfers any writing of another without his or her authority; or
  - (2) **Utters any writing which he or she knows to be forged in a manner above specified.**
- (b) “Writing” includes printing or any other method of recording information, money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, and other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; R.S. 463, 25 U.S.C. 2; R.S. 465, 25 U.S.C. 9; 42 Stat. 208, 25 U.S.C. 13; 38 Stat. 586, 25 U.S.C. 200.

### Source

Source: 58 FR 54411, Oct. 21, 1993, unless otherwise noted.