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Penal Code § 470a

CHAPTER 4. Forgery and Counterfeiting

Current as of September 28, 2026Pen. Code, § 470aOfficial source ↗

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 358. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.

Every person who alters, falsifies, forges, duplicates or in any manner reproduces or counterfeits any driver’s license or identification card issued by a governmental agency with the intent that such driver’s license or identification card be used to facilitate the commission of any forgery, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year, or by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170.