Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS Chapter 575 • Effective - 01 Jan 2017, 2 histories, see footnote 575.110. Tampering with a public record — penalty. — 1. A person commits the offense of tampering with a public record if with the purpose to impair the verity, legibility or availability of a public record, he or she: (1) Knowingly makes a false entry in or falsely alters any public record; or (2) Knowing he or she lacks authority to do so, destroys, suppresses or conceals any public record. 2. The offense of tampering with a public record is a class A misdemeanor. -------- (L. 1977 S.B. 60, A.L. 2014 S.B. 491) Effective 1-01-17
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