N.Y. Penal Law § 175.05 : Offenses Involving Fraud — Penal — Offenses Involving False Written Statements — Falsifying business records in the second degree

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Current through 2016 New York Laws, Chapters 1 to 237

A person is guilty of falsifying business records in the second degree when, with intent to defraud, he:

1. Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
2. Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise; or
3. Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which he knows to be imposed upon him by law or by the nature of his position; or
4. Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.

Falsifying business records in the second degree is a class A misdemeanor.

N.Y. Penal Law § 175.05
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