(A) Definitions pertaining to forgery and related offenses. For the purpose of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COIN MACHINE. A coin box, turnstile, vending machine or other mechanical or electronic device or receptacle designed:
(a) To receive a coin or bill or token made for the purpose; and
(b) In return for the insertion or deposit thereof, automatically to offer, provide, assist in providing or permit the acquisition of property or service.
FALSELY ALTER A WRITTEN INSTRUMENT. To change, without the authority of anyone entitled to grant it, a written instrument, whether ir be in complete or incomplete form, by means of erasure, obliteration, deletion, insertion of new matter, transposition of matter or in any other manner, so that such instrument in its thus altered form appears or purports to be in all respects an authentic creation of or fully authorized by its ostensible maker or drawer.
FALSELY COMPLETE A WRITTEN INSTRUMENT. To transform, by adding, inserting or changing matter, an incomplete written instrument into a complete one, without the authority of anyone entitled to grant it, so that the complete instrument appears or purports to be in all respects an authentic creation of or fully authorized by its ostensible maker or drawer.
FALSELY MAKE A WRITTEN INSTRUMENT. To make or draw a complete written instrument in its entirety or an incomplete written instrument, which purports to be an authentic creation of its ostensible maker or drawer, but which is not either because the ostensible maker or drawer is fictitious or because, of real, he or she did not authorize the making or drawing thereof.
FORGED INSTRUMENT. A written instrument which has been falsely made, completed or altered.
SLUG. An object or article which by virtue of its size, shape or any other quality is capable of being inserted, deposited or otherwise used in a coin machine as an improper substitute for a genuine coin, bill or token.
VALUE OF THE SLUG. The value of the coin, bill or token for which it is capable of being substituted.
WRITTEN INSTRUMENT. Any instrument or article containing written or printed matter or its equivalent used for the purpose of reciting, embodying, conveying or recording information, or constituting a symbol or evidence of value, right, privilege or identification, which is capable of being used to the advantage or disadvantage of some person.
(KRS 516.010)
(B) General provision pertaining to forgery and related offenses. A person may not be convicted of both forgery and criminal possession of a forged instrument with respect to the same instrument.
(KRS 516.080)
(C) Forgery in the third degree.
(1) A person is guilty of forgery in the third degree when, with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he or she falsely makes, completes or alters a written instrument except as provided in KRS 516.020(1)(a) and (b), and KRS 516.030(1)(a), (b) and (c).
(2) Forgery in the third degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
(KRS 516.040)
(D) Criminal possession of forged instrument in the third degree.
(1) A person is guilty of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree when with knowledge that it is forged and with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he or she utters or possesses forged instrument of a kind not specified in KRS 516.020 and KRS 516.030.
(2) Criminal possession of a forged instrument in the third degree is a Class A misdemeanor.
(KRS 516.070)
(E) Criminal simulation.
(1) A person is guilty of criminal simulation when:
(a) With intent to defraud, he or she makes or alters any object in such a manner that it appears to have an antiquity, rarity, source or authorship which it does not in fact possess; or
(b) With knowledge of its character and with intent to defraud, he or she possesses and object so simulated.
(2) Criminal simulation is a Class A misdemeanor.
(KRS 516.110)
(F) Using slugs in the second degree.
(1) A person is guilty of unlawfully using slugs in the second degree when:
(a) With intent to defraud the owner, licensee or lessee of a coin machine, he or she inserts, deposits or uses a slug in such machine; or
(b) He or she makes, possesses or disposes of a slug with intent to enable a person to insert, deposit or use it in a coin machine; and
(c) The value of such slug is under $100.
(2) Unlawfully using slugs in the second degree is a Class B misdemeanor.
(KRS 516.130)
(1980 Code, § 1020.6)