Criminal Code

(1) "Counterfeiting" means the act of unlawfully copying, imitating, or manufacturing an item without authorization by the owner of the design or other rights thereof and passing along the copy, imitation, or faux manufacture as the genuine or original item.

(2) "Monetary counterfeiting" means the act of unlawfully copying, imitating, or manufacturing the physical or electronic currency of the state, a micronational entity, or a macronational entity without authorization by the state, micronational entity, or macronational entity and passing along the copy, imitation, or faux manufacture as the genuine or original physical or electronic currency.