Alabama § 13A-9-45 - Falsifying Business Records.
Full text of Alabama Code of Alabama § 13A-9-45 — Falsifying Business Records., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 13A-9-45. Falsifying Business Records.
(a) A person commits the crime of falsifying business records if, 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 when he knows the retention or preservation of a true entry is required by law independent of this section; 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
(4) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise when he knows a true entry is required by law independent of this section.
(b) “Enterprise” means any entity of one or more persons, corporate or otherwise, engaged in business, commercial, professional, industrial, eleemosynary, political or social activity.
(c) “Business record” means any writing or article kept or maintained by an enterprise for the purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity.
(d) Falsifying business records is a Class B misdemeanor.
Source: official Alabama text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 13A-9-45 ("Falsifying Business Records.") is part of the Code of Alabama, the codified statutory law of Alabama. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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