Cal. Corp. Code § 2256

Current through the 2023 Legislative Session.

Section 2256 - Unlawful exhibition of false, forged or altered book, paper, voucher, security or other instrument of evidence to public officer or board with intent to deceive

Every officer, agent or clerk of any corporation, domestic or foreign, or any person proposing to organize such a corporation or to increase the capital stock of any such corporation, who knowingly exhibits any false, forged or altered book, paper, voucher, security or other instrument of evidence to any public officer or board authorized by law to examine the organization of such corporation or to investigate its affairs or to allow an increase of its capital, with intent to deceive such officer or board in respect thereto, is punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not exceeding one year.

Ca. Corp. Code § 2256

Amended by Stats 2011 ch 39 (AB 117),s 68, eff. 6/30/2011.

Amended by Stats 2011 ch 15 (AB 109),s 39, eff. 4/4/2011, but operative no earlier than October 1, 2011, and only upon creation of a community corrections grant program to assist in implementing this act and upon an appropriation to fund the grant program.