Wash. Rev. Code § 40.16.010

Current through Chapters 1-163 and 165-376 of the 2024 Regular Session
Section 40.16.010 - Injury to public record

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.

RCW 40.16.010

2003 c 53 § 214; 1992 c 7 § 34; 1909 c 249 § 95; RRS § 2347.

Intent-Effective date-2003 c 53: See notes following RCW 2.48.180.