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Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) A person commits the offense of falsifying a business record if, with purpose to defraud or injure, the person:
(1) 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.
(b) Falsifying a business record is a Class A misdemeanor.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Arkansas Code Title 5. Criminal Offenses § 5-37-202. Falsifying business records - last updated March 28, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-5-criminal-offenses/ar-code-sect-5-37-202/
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