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Section 5-37-202 - Falsifying a business record — Arkansas Law | CourtGPT
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Section 5-37-202 - Falsifying a business record

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(a) A person commits the offense of falsifying a business record if, with purpose to defraud or injure, the person: (1) Makes or causes a false entry to be made in a business record of an enterprise;(2) Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes, or destroys a true entry in a business record of an enterprise;(3) Omits to make a true entry in a business record of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so that the person knows to be imposed upon him or her by law or by the nature of his or her position; or(4) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission of a true entry in a business record of an enterprise.(b) Falsifying a business record is a Class A misdemeanor.Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2303; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2303.