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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="18-204" title_number="18" title_name="Bills of Lading and Warehouse Receipts -- Criminal Provisions" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Bills of Lading">
  <text>A person may not secure the issuance by a carrier of a bill of lading by inducing an officer, agent, or employee of the carrier to believe falsely that the goods were received by the carrier or are under its control:</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, any of the goods described in the bill of lading as received for transportation:</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>
</section>
