239.300 - Stealing, altering or defacing records, documents or instruments.

239.300  Stealing, altering or defacing records, documents or instruments.  A person who:

      1.  Steals, embezzles, corrupts, alters, withdraws, falsifies or avoids any record, process, charter, gift, grant, conveyance, bond or contract;

      2.  Knowingly or willfully, takes off, discharges or conceals any issue, forfeited recognizance or other forfeiture;

      3.  Forges, defaces or falsifies any document or instrument recorded or filed in any court, or any registered acknowledgment or certificate; or

      4.  Steals, alters, defaces or falsifies any minute, document, book or any proceedings of or belonging to any public office within this state,

Ê is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

      [Part 61:108:1866; B § 2659; BH § 1696; C § 1842; RL § 2817; NCL § 4817]—(NRS A 1967, 533; 1979, 1463; 1983, 266; 1995, 1263)