CODE OF VIRGINIA

FALSE ENTRIES OR DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS BY OFFICERS (§ 18.2-472)

If a clerk of any court or other public officer fraudulently make a false entry,
or erase, alter, secrete or destroy any record, including a microphotographic
copy, in his keeping and belonging to his office, he shall be guilty of a Class
1 misdemeanor and shall forfeit his office and be forever incapable of holding
any office of honor, profit or trust under the Constitution of Virginia.

HISTORY: Code 1950, §§ 18.1-306, 18.1-307; 1960, c. 358; 1975, cc. 14, 15;
1977, c. 107.