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2012 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 38 Public Officers and Employees
38-421 Stealing, destroying, altering or secreting public record; classification

Universal Citation:
AZ Rev Stat § 38-421 (through 2nd Reg Sess. 50th Leg. 2012)
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38-421. Stealing, destroying, altering or secreting public record; classification

A. An officer having custody of any record, map or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any court, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his hands for any purpose, who steals, or knowingly and without lawful authority destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, falsifies, removes or secretes the whole or any part thereof, or who permits any other person so to do, is guilty of a class 4 felony.

B. A person not an officer who is guilty of the conduct specified in subsection A of this section is guilty of a class 6 felony.

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