Every person who shall bring into this state or have in his or her possession or custody within this state, any false, forged, counterfeited, or altered certificate or security, bank bill, or note, knowing it to be false, forged, counterfeited or altered, with intent to utter, pass or, tender it in payment the same as true, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten (10) years nor less than two (2) years.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-17-4
Importation or possession of counterfeit certificate, bill, or note
G.L. 1896, ch. 280, § 4; G.L. 1909, ch. 346, § 4; G.L. 1923, ch. 398, § 4; G.L. 1938, ch. 609, § 4; G.L. 1956, § 11-17-4.
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