2013 Code of Virginia
Title 18.2 - CRIMES AND OFFENSES GENERALLY.
Chapter 10 - Crimes Against the Administration of Justice
Section 18.2-472 - False entries or destruction of records by officers


VA Code § 18.2-472 (2013) What's This?

§ 18.2-472. False entries or destruction of records by officers.

If a clerk of any court or other public officer fraudulently make a false entry, or erase, alter, secrete or destroy any record, including a microphotographic copy, in his keeping and belonging to his office, he shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor and shall forfeit his office and be forever incapable of holding any office of honor, profit or trust under the Constitution of Virginia.

(Code 1950, §§ 18.1-306, 18.1-307; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15; 1977, c. 107.)

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