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Fla. Stat. § 831.26 (2025)

Circulating any substitute for regular currency.

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831.26 Circulating any substitute for regular currency.—Whoever issues or circulates, or causes to be issued or circulated, or assists in issuing or circulating as a substitute in any respect for the currency recognized by law, any scrip, notes, bills, or any other written, engraved or lithographed paper payable in anything other than money, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.083.
History.—s. 1, ch. 3140, 1879; RS 2729; GS 3721; RGS 5704; CGL 7918; s. 976, ch. 71-136; s. 242, ch. 77-104.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 831.26

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§831.26PASS COUNTERFEITEDCIRCULATE SUBSTITUTE FOR REGULAR CURRENCYM · 2nd

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