§ 750.248bMaking, altering, forging, or counterfeiting document affecting interest in real

property; intent; felony; penalty; exception; venue; court order.
 Sec. 248b.
    (1) A person who falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits a deed, a discharge of
 mortgage, or a power or letter of attorney or other document that affects an interest in real
 property with intent to injure or defraud another person is guilty of a felony punishable by
 imprisonment for not more than 14 years.
    (2) This section does not apply to a scrivener's error.
    (3) The venue in a prosecution under this section may be in the county in which the forgery
 was performed; in a county in which the false, altered, forged, or counterfeit document is
 uttered and published with intent to injure or defraud; or in the county in which the rightful
 property owner resides.
    (4) In proceedings that result in a conviction under this section or for any lesser included
 offense, the circuit court shall enter an order stating that the false, altered, forged, or
 counterfeit document is invalid and require that a certified copy of the court order with the
 invalid document, if not previously recorded, be attached and recorded in the office of the
 register of deeds of the county where the subject property or part of the property is located, as
 provided in section 2935 of the revised judicature act of 1961, 1961 PA 236, MCL 600.2935.
 If the invalid document has previously been recorded, the prosecutor shall provide the circuit
 court with the liber and page number or unique identifying reference number of the invalid
 document, which shall be included in the order. The register of deeds shall make reference to
 the liber and page number or unique identifying reference number of the invalid document in
 the index of the recorded documents. Any recording fees incurred under this subsection shall
 be paid as ordered by the court.