{"data":{"id":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.6a","jurisdiction":"us-ia","citation":"Iowa Code § 715A.6A","heading":"Prohibitions relating to false academic degrees, grades, or honors.","body":"1. As used in this section, “academic degree” means a diploma, certificate, license, transcript, or other document which signifies or purports to signify completion of the academic requirements of a secondary, postsecondary, professional, or governmental program of study.\n2. A person commits a serious misdemeanor if the person, knowingly and willingly, does any of the following:\na. Falsely makes or alters, procures to be falsely made or altered, or assists in falsely making or altering, an academic degree.\nb. Uses, offers, or presents as genuine, a falsely made or altered academic degree.\nc. Sells, gives, purchases, or obtains, procures to be sold, given, purchased, or obtained, or assists in selling, giving, buying, or obtaining, a false academic degree.\nd. Makes a false written representation relating to the person’s academic grades, honors, or awards, or makes a false written representation that the person has received an academic degree from a specific secondary, postsecondary, professional institution, or governmental program of study, in an application for any of the following:\n(1) Employment.\n(2) Admission to an educational program.\n(3) An award or other recognition.\n(4) The issuance of an academic degree to the person.","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.6A.pdf","current_through":"Iowa Code 2026 edition","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:40:18Z","sha256":"61b98d4eecd4991b1d3551f3db0bec0898fee64e9f3450d96a7a02295d564395","source_id":"us-ia","stale":false,"prev":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.6","next":"us-ia/iowa-code-715a.6b"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}