Whoever maliciously or with intent to injure or defraud any other person defaces, mutilates, destroys, abstracts, or conceals the whole or any part of any record authorized by law to be made, or pertaining to any court or public office in the District, or any paper duly filed in such court or office, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in § 22-3571.01 or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both.
D.C. Code § 22-3307
Destroying or defacing public records
Mar. 3, 1901, 31 Stat. 1327, ch. 854, § 844; Aug. 20, 1994, D.C
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