Criminal Simulation

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Criminal Offenses
4. Offenses Against Property
5. Theft
6. Criminal Simulation

1. 1. A person commits the offense of criminal simulation who, with intent to defraud or harm another:
      1. Makes or alters an object, in whole or in part, so that it appears to have value because of age, antiquity, rarity, source or authorship that it does not have;
      2. Possesses an object so made or altered, with intent to sell, pass or otherwise utter it; or
      3. Authenticates or certifies an object so made or altered as genuine or as different from what it is.
   2. A person commits the offense of criminal simulation who, with knowledge of its character, possesses:
      1. Any machinery, plates or other contrivances designed to produce instruments reporting to be credit or debit cards of an issuer who had not consented to the preparation of the cards; or
      2. Any instrument, apparatus or contrivance designed, adapted or used for commission of any theft of property or services by fraudulent means.
2. Criminal simulation is punishable as theft pursuant to § 39-14-105, but in no event shall criminal simulation be less than a Class E felony.

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