Bill Text: MI HB5921 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Crimes; forgery; provision related to sworn certificates made evidence; modify. Amends sec. 257 of 1931 PA 328 (MCL 750.257).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-03 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 05/02/2018 [HB5921 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB5921-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 5921
May 2, 2018, Introduced by Rep. Kahle and referred to the Committee on Financial Services.
A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled
"The Michigan penal code,"
by amending section 257 (MCL 750.257).
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec.
257. Sworn certificate made evidence— In all prosecutions
for forging or counterfeiting any note, certificate, bills of
credit, or
other security issued in on
behalf of the United States,
or
in on behalf of any state or territory, or for uttering,
publishing, or
tendering in payment as true , any such
forged or
counterfeit note, certificate, bill of credit, or security, or for
being
possessed thereof possessing
a forged or counterfeit note,
certificate, bill of credit, or security with the intent to utter
or
pass the same forged or
counterfeit note, certificate, bill of
credit, or security as true, the certificate under oath of the
secretary
of the treasury, or of the treasurer of the United
States,
an officer, employee, or
agent of the United States
Department of the Treasury, the United States Department of
Homeland Security, or the United States Secret Service, who is
authorized to sign a sworn certificate, or of the secretary or
treasurer of any state or territory on whose behalf such note,
certificate,
bill of credit, or security
, purports to have been
issued,
shall must be admitted as evidence for the purpose of
proving
the note, certificate, bill of
credit, or security same to
be
is forged or counterfeit.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.
