(a) A person commits the crime of falsifying business records if, with intent to defraud, he:
- (1) Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
- (2) Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise when he knows the retention or preservation of a true entry is required by law independent of this section; or
- (3) 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
- (4) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise when he knows a true entry is required by law independent of this section.
- (b) “Enterprise” means any entity of one or more persons, corporate or otherwise, engaged in business, commercial, professional, industrial, eleemosynary, political or social activity.
- (c) “Business record” means any writing or article kept or maintained by an enterprise for the purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity.
- (d) Falsifying business records is a Class B misdemeanor.
(Acts 1977, No. 607, p. 812, §4125.)