Every person who shall utter, publish, pass, or tender in payment as true, any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered certificate, security or bank bill or note, knowing it to be false, forged, counterfeited, or altered, with intent to defraud, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years nor less than two (2) years.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-17-3
Passing of counterfeit certificates, bills, or notes
G.L. 1896, ch. 280, § 3; G.L. 1909, ch. 346, § 3; G.L. 1923, ch. 398, § 3; G.L. 1938, ch. 609, § 3; G.L. 1956, § 11-17-3.
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