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2010 Maine Code
TITLE 17-A: MAINE CRIMINAL CODE
Chapter 29: FORGERY AND RELATED OFFENSES
17-A §707. Falsifying private records

Universal Citation:
17-A ME Rev Stat § 707 (2010 through 124th Legis)
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Part 2: SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSES

§707. Falsifying private records

1. A person is guilty of falsifying private records if, with intent to defraud any person, he:

A. Makes a false entry in the records of an organization, or [1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

B. Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the records of an organization; or [1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

C. Omits to make a true entry in the records of an organization in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed on him by statute; or [1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

D. Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the records of an organization. [1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

2. Falsifying private records is a Class E crime.

[ 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW) .]

SECTION HISTORY

1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).

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