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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(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.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kentucky Revised Statutes Title L. Kentucky Penal Code § 517.050.Falsifying business records - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ky/title-l-kentucky-penal-code/ky-rev-st-sect-517-050/
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