{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.2","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 715A.2","heading":"Forgery.","body":"1. A person is guilty of forgery if, with intent to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that the person is facilitating a fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, the person does any of the following:\na. Alters a writing of another without the other’s permission.\nb. Makes, completes, executes, authenticates, issues, or transfers a writing so that it purports to be the act of another who did not authorize that act, or so that it purports to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case, or so that it purports to be a copy of an original when no such original existed.\nc. Utters a writing which the person knows to be forged in a manner specified in paragraph “a” or “b”.\nd. Possesses a writing which the person knows to be forged in a manner specified in paragraph “a” or “b”.\n2. a. Forgery is a class “D” felony if the writing is or purports to be any of the following:\n(1) Part of an issue of money, securities, postage or revenue stamps, or other instruments issued by the government.\n(2) Part of an issue of stock, bonds, credit-sale contracts as defined in section 203.1, or other instruments representing interests in or claims against any property or enterprise.\n(3) A check, draft, or other writing which ostensibly evidences an obligation of the person who has purportedly executed it or authorized its execution.\n(4) A document prescribed by statute, rule, or regulation for entry into or as evidence of authorized stay or employment in the United States.\n(5) A driver’s license, nonoperator’s identification card, birth certificate, or occupational license or certificate in support of an occupational license issued by a department, agency, board, or commission in this state.\nb. Forgery is an aggravated misdemeanor if the writing is or purports to be a will, deed, contract, release, commercial instrument, or any other writing or other document evidencing, creating, transferring, altering, terminating, or otherwise affecting legal relations.","path":["Title XVI - CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE (Ch. 687 - 916)","Chapter 715A - FORGERY AND RELATED FRAUDULENT CRIMINAL ACTS"],"source_url":"https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/code/2026/715A.2.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:18Z","sha256":"3e22f833735c316361937b5756fb0edf784ede3ef697a058272cb45c679986ab","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.1","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.2a"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}