Every officer who shall mutilate, destroy, conceal, erase, obliterate, or falsify any record or paper appertaining to the officer's office, or who shall fraudulently appropriate to the officer's own use or to the use of another person, or secrete with intent to appropriate to such use, any money, evidence of debt or other property intrusted to the officer by virtue of the officer's office, is guilty of a class B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than ten years, or by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, or by both.
RCW 40.16.020
Injury to and misappropriation of record.
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case 74 Wash. 2d 231 - Matsen v. Kaiser (1968)
Most recently applied in 196 Wash. 2d 797 - In re Recall of Hatcher (January 2021)
2003 c 53 s 215; 1992 c 7 s 35; 1909 c 249 s 96; RRS s 2348.
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