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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-37-202

Falsifying a business record

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Renfro v. State (1998)

Most recently applied in Renfro v. State (January 1998)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2303; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2303.

(1) A person commits the offense of falsifying a business record if, with purpose to defraud or injure, the person: 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.

(5) Falsifying a business record is a Class A misdemeanor.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.