149.071. Fraudulent activity relative to tax stamps a felony — penalty.
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149.071. Fraudulent activity relative to tax stamps a felony — penalty. — Any person who shall, without the authorization of the director of revenue, make or manufacture, or who shall falsely or fraudulently forge, counterfeit, reproduce, restore, or process any stamp, impression, copy, facsimile, or other evidence for the purpose of indicating the payment of the tax levied by this chapter, or who shall knowingly or by a deceptive act use or pass, or tender as true, or affix, impress, or imprint, by use of any device, rubber stamp or by any other means, or any package containing cigarettes, any unauthorized, false, altered, forged, counterfeit or previously used stamp, impressions, copies, facsimiles or other evidence of cigarette tax payment, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment by the state department of corrections for a term of not less than two years nor more than five years.
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(L. 1974 H.B. 1612 § 13, A.L. 2021 S.B. 26 merged with S.B. 53 & 60)