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118A Theft and Fraud 545.15
<br />545.12 TAMPERING WITH COIN MACHINES.
<br />(a) No person, with purpose to commit theft or to defraud, shall knowingly enter, force
<br />an entrance into, tamper with or insert any part of an instrument into any coin machine.
<br />(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of tampering with coin machines, a
<br />misdemeanor of the first degree. If the offender has previously been convicted of a violation of
<br />Ohio R.C. 2911.32 or of any theft offense, tampering with coin machines is a felony and shall be
<br />prosecuted under appropriate State law. (ORC 2911.32)
<br />545.13 CRIMINAL SIMULATION.
<br />(a) No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is facilitating a
<br />fraud, shall do any of the following:
<br />(1) Make or alter any object so that it appears to have value because of
<br />antiquity, rarity, curiosity, source, or authorship, which it does not in fact
<br />possess;
<br />(2) Practice deception in making, retouching, editing, or reproducing any
<br />photograph, movie film, video tape, phonograph record, or recording tape;
<br />(3) Falsely or fraudulently make, sunulate, forge, alter, or counterfert any
<br />wrapper, label, stamp, cork, or cap prescribed by the Liquor Control
<br />Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303, falsely or
<br />fraudulently cause to be made, simulated, forged, altered, or counterfeited
<br />any wrapper, label, stamp, cork, or cap prescribed by the Liquor Control
<br />Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303, or use more than
<br />once any wrapper, label, stamp, cork, or cap prescribed by the Liquor
<br />Control Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303.
<br />(4) Utter, or possess with purpose to utter, any object that the person knows to
<br />have been simulated as provided in subsection (a)(1), (2) or (3) of this
<br />section.
<br />(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of criminal simulation, a misdemeanor of the
<br />first degree. If the loss to the victim is five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more, criminal
<br />simulation is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
<br />(ORC 2913.32)
<br />545.14 TAMPERING WITH RECORDS.
<br />(a) No person, knowing the person has no privilege to do so, and with purpose to
<br />defraud or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following:
<br />(1) Falsify, destroy, remove, conceal, alter, deface or mutilate any writing,
<br />computer software, data, or record;
<br />(2) Utter any writing or record, knowing it to have been tampered with as
<br />provided in subsection (a)(1) hereof.
<br />(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of tampering with records, a misdemeanor
<br />of the first degree. If the violation involves data or computer software the value of which or loss
<br />to the victim is five hundred dollars ($500.00) or more, or if the writing or record is a will
<br />unrevoked at the time of the offense, tampering with records is a felony and shall be prosecuted
<br />under appropriate State law. (ORC 2913.42)
<br />545.15 SECURING WRITINGS BY DECEPTION.
<br />(a) No person, by deception, shall cause another to execute any writing that disposes
<br />of or encumbers property, or by which a pecuniary obligation is incurred.
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