Every person who being a member or officer or in the employment of any corporation, association or partnership, falsifies, alters, erases, obliterates or destroys any account or book of accounts or records belonging to such corporation, association or partnership, or appertaining to their business or makes any false entries in such account or book or keeps any false account in such business with intent to defraud his employers, or to conceal any embezzlement of their money, or property, or any defalcation or other misconduct, committed by any person in the management of their business, is guilty of forgery in the second degree, a Class D1 felony offense.

Historical Data

R.L. 1910, § 2642; Amended by Laws 2025, HB 2104, c. 486, § 444, eff. January 1, 2026 (superseded document available).