Vermont Statutes Annotated

Vt. Stat. Ann. tit. 13, § 2003 (2026)

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(Cite as: 13 V.S.A. § 2003)

§ 2003. False tokens described

The use of a matured check, or other order for the payment of money, as a means of obtaining from another person money or other property, or a release or discharge of a debt or obligation, or the signature of a person to a written instrument the false making whereof would be punishable as forgery, such as is specified in section 2002 of this title, by a person who knows that the drawer thereof is not entitled to draw for the sum specified therein upon the drawee, is the use of a false token within the meaning of section 2002 of this title, although representation is not made in respect thereto.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1975–1986 · leading case: State v. Foley, 443 A.2d 452 (Vt. 1982).

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State v. Foley, 443 A.2d 452 (Vt. 1982). “See 13 V.S.A. § 2003. Third, the offender must actually obtain money or property with a value in excess of $25.”

State v. Allen, 507 A.2d 975 (Vt. 1986). “Such a conclusion, he argues, is compelled by 13 V.S.A. § 2003, which in pertinent part defines “false token” as: The use of a matured check, or other order for the payment of money,- as a means of obtaining from another person money or other property, .”

State v. Zeisner, 340 A.2d 69 (Vt. 1975). “Dated that same day, the checks were matured, and a false token within the definition of 13 V.S.A. § 2003 if such knowledge of lack of entitlement existed.”

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