Business and Professions Code section 4324

(a)

Every person who signs the name of another, or of a fictitious person, or falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as genuine, any prescription for any drugs is guilty of forgery and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year.

(b)

Every person who has in his or her possession any drugs secured by a forged prescription shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year.

Source: Section 4324, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=4324.­ (updated Apr. 4, 2011; accessed Dec. 29, 2025).

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