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Fla. Stat. § 520.91 (2025)

Uttering a false completion certificate.

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520.91 Uttering a false completion certificate.—Any person who accepts or receives a completion certificate or other evidence that performance of a home improvement contract is complete or satisfactorily concluded, with knowledge that such document is false and that the performance is not completed, and who utters, offers, or uses such document in connection with making or accepting any assignment or negotiation of the right to receive any payment from the owner, under or in connection with a home improvement contract or for the purpose of obtaining or granting any credit or loan on the security of the right to receive any payment, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.—s. 1, ch. 69-44; s. 494, ch. 71-136; s. 3, ch. 76-168; s. 1, ch. 77-457; s. 21, ch. 80-256; s. 2, ch. 81-318; ss. 35, 36, ch. 90-103; s. 4, ch. 91-429.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 520.91

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§520.91FRAUDUTTER FALSE HOME IMPROVEMENT COMPLETION CERTIFM · 1st

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