Arkansas § 5-37-202 Falsifying a business record

Arkansas Statutes

§ 5-37-202 — Falsifying a business record

Arkansas § 5-37-202

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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-37-202 (2026).

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(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.

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(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.