Cite as: 21 CNCA § 461

Every clerk, register or other officer having the custody of any record, maps or book, or of any paper or proceeding of any Court, filed or deposited in any public office, who is guilty of stealing, willfully destroying, mutilating, defacing, altering or falsifying or unlawfully removing or secreting such record, map, book, paper or proceeding, or who permits any other person so to do, is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not more than Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000), or by not more than three (3) years imprisonment, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto, such person shall forfeit his or her office or employment.

Historical Data

LA 10–90, eff. November 13, 1990. Amended LA 28-20, eff. December 14, 2020.