NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1961 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 94

SENATE BILL 32

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 14‑120 SO AS TO MAKE UNLAWFUL THE PUBLISHING OR UTTERING OF AN INSTRUMENT CONTAINING A FORGED ENDORSEMENT.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 14‑120 is hereby amended by adding the following sentence at the end of said Section:

"If any person, directly or indirectly, whether for the sake of gain or with intent to defraud or injure any other person, shall falsely make, forge or counterfeit any endorsement on any instrument described in the preceding Section, whether such instrument be genuine or false, or shall knowingly utter or publish any such instrument containing a false, forged or counterfeited endorsement or, knowing the same to be falsely endorsed, shall pass or deliver or attempt to pass or deliver any such instrument containing a forged endorsement to another person, the person so offending shall be guilty of a felony and punishable by the same punishment provided in the preceding sentence."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of March, 1961.