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The tickets of the Puerto Rico Lottery shall be considered as securities of the Government of Puerto Rico, and any person who, with the intention of defrauding another or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits any lottery ticket of the Puerto Rico Lottery or fraction thereof, or the official list of prizes that the Secretary of the Treasury prints and circulates, or circulates, publishes, passes or attempts to pass as true and genuine any ticket of the Puerto Rico Lottery or fraction thereof, or the official list of prizes, knowing the same to be false, altered, forged or counterfeited, shall be guilty of forgery, as prescribed in §§ 4846 and 4852 of Title 33, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by the penalty prescribed for said offense. History —May 15, 1947, No. 465, p. 1022, § 13; June 6, 1963, No. 46, p. 70, § 2; July 26, 1979, No. 3, p. 920, § 1; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 321, § 1.