144.52 - UNLAWFUL ACTS -- PUNISHMENT.
144.52 UNLAWFUL ACTS -- PUNISHMENT. Any person committing any of the following acts is guilty of a serious misdemeanor: 1. Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter, or in an application for an amendment thereof, or willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereof. 2. Without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed under this chapter or a certified copy of such report, record, or certificate. 3. Willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use or furnish to another for use for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, altered, amended, or mutilated. 4. Willfully, with the intent to deceive, uses or attempts to use any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued upon a record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person. 5. Willfully and knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth with the intention that it be used by a person other than the person whose birth the record relates. 6. Disinterring a body in violation of section 144.34. 7. Knowingly violates a provision of section 144.29A.Section History: Early Form
[C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 2349, 2350, 2436; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 141.33, 141.34, 144.53, 144.54; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 144.52]Section History: Recent Form
97 Acts, ch 172, §2