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Committee advances bill to criminalize false leases and fraudulent listings of residential property
Summary
House Bill 321 would create misdemeanors and felonies for creating false lease documents and for advertising or attempting to sell or rent property without legal title. The committee voted 14-0 to send the bill to the floor with a due-pass recommendation.
Rep. Bruce Scogg, representing House District 10, described House Bill 321 as a response to incidents in which people return to vacant homes and find others occupying the property with forged or false documents. "We heard a lot of this in the news around the country the past couple of years," Scogg said. "If a person knowingly and willfully present a false document purporting to be a valid lease, then that person commits a misdemeanor."
Under Scogg’s description of the bill, knowingly listing or advertising…
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