(a) A person is guilty of forgery, a misdemeanor, if, with purpose to defraud or injure anyone, or with knowledge that he or she is facilitating fraud or injury to be perpetrated by anyone, he or she:
(1) Alters, makes, completes, authenticates, issues or transfers any writing of another without his or her authority; or
(2) Utters any writing which he or she knows to be forged in a manner above specified.
(b) ``Writing'' includes printing or any other method of recording information, money, coins, tokens, stamps, seals, credit cards, badges, trademarks, and other symbols of value, right, privilege, or identification.