9.72.010 Crime of forgery—Writing defined.
A. A person is guilty of forgery, if, with purpose to defraud anyone, or with knowledge that he is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, he:
1. Alters any writing of another without his authority or utters any such altered writing; or
2. Makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues, transfers, publishes, or utters any writing so that the writing, completion, execution, authentication, issuance, transference, publication, or utterance purports to be the act of another, whether the person is existent or nonexistent, or purports to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case, or to be a copy of an original when no such original existed.
B. As used in this section, "writing" includes printing or any other method of recording information, checks, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, money, and any other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.
C. Forgery is a class B misdemeanor. (Code 1975 § 13-650-1)