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2018 New Jersey Revised Statutes
Title 47 - PUBLIC RECORDS
Chapter 3 - Copies of reports of audit filed with director of Division of Local Government; destruction; notice
Section 47:3-29 - Removal, alteration or destruction of public records with malicious intent
Universal Citation: NJ Rev Stat § 47:3-29 (2018)
Section: 47:3-29: Removal, alteration or destruction of public records with malicious intent
Any person who, without the consent of the person authorized to have custody thereof, removes an official record or paper from the files of any public agency or body, or who alters any map, plat, or other paper signed and approved by a public official without permission, or who alters, defaces, mutilates or destroys with malicious intent any public record shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor.
L.1953, c. 410, p. 2066, s. 15. Amended by L.1968, c. 465, s. 1, eff. Feb. 21, 1969.
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