(a) A person commits the crime of tampering with physical evidence if, believing that an official proceeding is pending or may be instituted, and acting without legal right or authority, he:
- (1) Destroys, mutilates, conceals, removes or alters physical evidence with intent to impair its use, verity or availability in the pending or prospective official proceeding; or
- (2) Knowingly makes, presents or offers any false physical evidence with intent that it be introduced in the pending or prospective official proceeding.
- (b) “Physical evidence,” as used in this section, includes any article, object, document, record or other thing of physical substance.
- (c) Tampering with physical evidence is a Class A misdemeanor.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §5045.)