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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="18-201" title_number="18" title_name="Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts -- Criminal Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Bills of Lading">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A person or his agent or officer may not issue a bill of lading, receipt, acknowledgment, or voucher for transport of any goods if, at the time the instrument is issued, the person has not actually received the goods for transport.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>An officer, agent, or employee of a carrier may not issue or aid in issuing a bill of lading for any goods:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>With intent to defraud; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>With knowledge that, at the time the bill of lading is issued, the goods:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Have not been received by the carrier, its agent, or a connecting carrier; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Are not under the carrier’s control.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
