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Fla. Stat. § 831.08 (2025)
Possessing certain forged notes, bills, checks, or drafts.
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831.08 Possessing certain forged notes, bills, checks, or drafts.—Whoever has in his or her possession 10 or more similar false, altered, forged, or counterfeit notes, bills of credit, bank bills, checks, drafts, or notes, such as are mentioned in any of the preceding sections of this chapter, payable to the bearer thereof or to the order of any person, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged, or counterfeit, with intent to utter and pass the same as true, and thereby to injure or defraud any person, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.
History.—s. 5, ch. 1637, 1868; RS 2486; GS 3367; RGS 5215; CGL 7333; s. 965, ch. 71-136; s. 1291, ch. 97-102; s. 9, ch. 2001-115.
Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 831.08
M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd§831.08POSSESS COUNTERFEITEDERROR
§831.08POSSESS FORGEDPOSSESS 10+ FORGED BANK BILL/CHECK/DRAFT/NOTE
§831.08POSSESS COUNTERFEITEDPOSSESS 10+ CTFT BANK BILL/CHECK/DRAFT/NOTE
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1977–2009 · leading case: Green v. State, 18 So. 3d 656 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009).
Green v. State, 18 So. 3d 656 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009). “13(6)(b); and possession of ten or more counterfeit bills in violation of section 831.08, Florida Statutes (2003). The offense of trafficking in cocaine was reclassified from a first-degree felony to a life felony pursuant to section 775.”
State v. La Pointe, 345 So. 2d 362 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977). “01, Florida Statutes, nor is it *364 ‘a note’ or other writing payable to the bearer thereof as required by Section 831.08, Florida Statutes.” On this appeal therefrom the state argues, and we agree, the trial court was in error in holding that the Super Bowl tickets were not…”
Watts v. State, 440 So. 2d 505 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983). “In defining certain other offenses the legislature has satisfactorily dealt with this issue by graduating the severity of the offense, conceived as one, according to the number of articles unlawfully possessed, §§ 831.08, .13, .15, .16, Fla. Stat. (1981) (10 or more forged bank…”
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