Alabama Code 37-8-220. Prohibited instruments – Penalties
Terms Used In Alabama Code 37-8-220
- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
- year: means a calendar year; but, whenever the word "year" is used in reference to any appropriations for the payment of money out of the treasury, it shall mean fiscal year. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
Any person who violates any provision of this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-218, or Section 37-8-221 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $1,000.00, to which, at the discretion of the court or judge trying the case, may be added imprisonment in the county jail or at hard labor for the county for not more than 12 months. Any person who violates any provision of this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-218, or Section 37-8-221 who has been previously convicted of violating this section, Section 37-8-217, Section 37-8-218, or Section 37-8-221 or of any crime in this or any other state or federal jurisdiction involving fraud or which carries possible punishment by confinement in the penitentiary shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor longer than 10 years.