Destruction or falsification of records.

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Any sheriff, coroner, clerk of a court, constable or other ministerial officer, and every deputy or subordinate of any ministerial officer who mutilates, destroys, conceals, erases, obliterates or falsifies any record or paper appertaining to his office shall be guilty of a felony.

R.L.1910, § 2243. Amended by Laws 1997, c. 133, § 207, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 2002, c. 460, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2002.

NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 207 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.


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