{"data":{"id":"us-ca/pen-648","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"PEN § 648","heading":"","body":"Every person who makes, issues, or puts in circulation any bill, check, ticket, certificate, promissory note, or the paper of any bank, to circulate as money, except as authorized by the laws of the United States, for the first offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each and every subsequent offense, is guilty of felony.","path":["Penal Code - PEN","PART 1. OF CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS [25. - 680.4.]","TITLE 15. MISCELLANEOUS CRIMES [626. - 653.75.]","CHAPTER 2. Of Other and Miscellaneous Offenses [639. - 653.2.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"4d7bc895c87b6f6318a62549e65f3bc9869d9a2da5fc6857a811a196bf90118a","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/pen-647e","next":"us-ca/pen-648a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}