Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 432.993 - Unlawful use of vital record or report; criminal penalty(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful use of a vital record or report if the person willfully and knowingly: (a) Makes a false statement to the State Registrar of the Center for Health Statistics in a report or application described in this chapter;(b) Without lawful authority and with intent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends or mutilates a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application;(c) Obtains, possesses, uses, sells or furnishes to another, or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application;(d) Without lawful authority, possesses a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, or documentation submitted in support of a record, report, certified copy, verification or application, that has been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or(e) As an employee of the Center for Health Statistics or of an office designated under ORS 432.035, furnishes or processes a certified copy of a record of live birth, knowing that the certified copy is to be used for the purposes of deception.(2) Unlawful use of a vital record or report is a Class C felony.Amended by 2013 Ch. 366,§ 45, eff. 6/13/2013, op. 1/1/2014.