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Fla. Stat. § 817.22 (2025)

Making false invoice to defraud insurer.

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817.22 Making false invoice to defraud insurer.—If the owner of a ship or vessel or of property laden or pretended to be laden on board the same, or if any other person concerned in the lading or fitting out of a ship or vessel, makes out or exhibits, or causes to be made out or exhibited, a false or fraudulent invoice, bill of lading, bill or parcels or other false estimates of any goods or property laden or pretended to be laden, on board such ship or vessel, with intent to injure and defraud an insurer of such ship, vessel or property, or of any part thereof, he or she shall be guilty of a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.—s. 72, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2471; GS 3332; RGS 5172; CGL 7275; s. 7, ch. 22858, 1945; s. 855, ch. 71-136; s. 1250, ch. 97-102.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 817.22

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§817.22FRAUDMAKE FALSE VESSEL INVOICE DEFRAUD INSURERF · 2nd

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