N.Y. Arts and Cultural Affairs Law § 13.03: Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar written instrument

§ 13.03. Falsifying certificates of authenticity or any similar

written instrument. A person who, with intent to defraud, deceive or

injure another, makes, utters or issues a certificate of authenticity or

any similar written instrument for a work of fine art attesting to

material facts which the work does not in fact possess is guilty of a

class A misdemeanor.