715A.6A Prohibitions relating to false academic degrees, grades, or honors.
1. As used in this section, “academic degree” means a diploma, certificate, license, transcript, or other document which signifies or purports to signify completion of the academic requirements of a secondary, postsecondary, professional, or governmental program of study.
2. A person commits a serious misdemeanor if the person, knowingly and willingly, does any of the following:
a. Falsely makes or alters, procures to be falsely made or altered, or assists in falsely making or altering, an academic degree.
b. Uses, offers, or presents as genuine, a falsely made or altered academic degree.
c. Sells, gives, purchases, or obtains, procures to be sold, given, purchased, or obtained, or assists in selling, giving, buying, or obtaining, a false academic degree.
d. Makes a false written representation relating to the person’s academic grades, honors, or awards, or makes a false written representation that the person has received an academic degree from a specific secondary, postsecondary, professional institution, or governmental program of study, in an application for any of the following:
(1) Employment.
(2) Admission to an educational program.
(3) An award or other recognition.
(4) The issuance of an academic degree to the person.
96 Acts, ch 1039, §1
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