Sec. 42.20.050. - Altering message; punishment. - Alaska Statutes

(a) A person is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both if the person wilfully alters a message by adding to it or omitting from it a word or figure so as to materially change the sense, purport, or meaning of the message, to the injury of the person sending or desiring to send it, or to whom it was directed.

(b) When numerals or words of number occur in a message the operator or clerk sending or receiving may express them in words or figures, or in both words and figures, and this may not be considered an alteration of the message or to affect its genuineness, force, or validity.