§ 2023. Simulating objects of antiquity or rarity

A person who, with the purpose of defrauding anyone or with the knowledge that he or she is facilitating a fraud to be perpetrated by anyone, makes or alters any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, source, or authorship that it does not possess shall be imprisoned for not more than one year or fined not more than $1,000.00, or both. (Added 1975, No. 109, § 3.)