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KRS 517.050

Falsifying business records

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Northeast Health Management, Inc. v. Cotton (2001)

Most recently applied in Alexander v. Eagle Manufacturing Co. (October 2017)

Effective: January 1, 1975 History: Created 1974 Ky

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(1) A person is guilty of falsifying business records when, with intent to defraud, he:

(a) Makes or causes a false entry to be made in the business records of an enterprise; or (b) Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or (c) Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or (d) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.

(2) Falsifying business records is a Class A misdemeanor.

Official source: Kentucky General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Kentucky statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.