642.146 CRIMINAL SIMULATION.
   (a)   No person, with purpose to defraud, or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following:
(1)   Make or alter any object so that it appears to have value because of antiquity, rarity, curiosity, source or authorship, which it does not in fact possess;
(2)   Practice deception in making, retouching, editing or reproducing any photograph, movie film, video tape, phonograph record or recording tape;
(3)   Falsely or fraudulently make, simulate, forge, alter or counterfeit any wrapper, label, stamp, cork or cap prescribed by the Ohio Liquor Control Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303, falsely or fraudulently cause to be made, simulated, forged, altered or counterfeited any wrapper, label, stamp, cork or cap prescribed by the Ohio Liquor Control Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303, or use more than once any wrapper, label, stamp, cork or cap prescribed by the Ohio Liquor Control Commission under Ohio R.C. Chapters 4301 and 4303; or
(4)   Utter, or possess with purpose to utter, any object that the person knows to have been simulated as provided in paragraph (a)(1), (2) or (3) hereof.
   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of criminal simulation, a misdemeanor of the first degree, provided the loss to the victim is less than one thousand dollars ($1,000). The penalty shall be as provided in Section 698.02.  
(ORC 2913.32)