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Code · Washington · Title 40 — Public Documents, Records, and Publications · Chapter 40.16

RCW 40.16.010

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Every person who shall willfully and unlawfully remove, alter, mutilate, destroy, conceal, or obliterate a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing filed or deposited in a public office, or with any public officer, by authority of law, is guilty of a class C felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in a state correctional facility for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or by both.
[ 2003 c 53 s 214 ; 1992 c 7 s 34 ; 1909 c 249 s 95 ; RRS s 2347.]
Notes:
Intent — Effective date — 2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180 .
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