Sec. 249.
(1) A person who utters and publishes as true a false, forged, altered, or counterfeit record,
instrument, or other writing listed in section 248 knowing it to be false, altered, forged, or
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counterfeit with intent to injure or defraud 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.§ 750.249Forgery of records and other instruments; uttering and publishing; exception
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