193.315. Acts which constitute crimes.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

193.315. Acts which constitute crimes.

Acts which constitute crimes.

193.315. 1. Any person who knowingly makes any falsestatement in a certificate, record, or report required bysections 193.005 to 193.325 or in an application for anamendment thereof, or in an application for a certified copy ofa vital record, or who knowingly supplies false informationintending that such information be used in the preparation ofany such report, record, or certificate, or amendment thereofshall be guilty of a class D felony.

2. Any person who, without lawful authority and with theintent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends, ormutilates any certificate, record, or report required bysections 193.005 to 193.325, certified copy of such certificate,record, or report shall be guilty of a class D felony.

3. Any person who knowingly obtains, possesses, uses,sells, furnishes or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell, orfurnish to another, for any purpose of deception, anycertificate, record, or report required by sections 193.005 to193.325 or certified copy thereof so made, counterfeited,altered, amended, or mutilated, or which is false in whole or inpart or which relates to the birth of another person, whetherliving or deceased, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

4. Any employee of the department or involved with thesystem of vital statistics who knowingly furnishes or processesa certificate of birth, or certified copy of a certificate ofbirth, with the knowledge or intention that it be used for thepurposes of deception shall be guilty of a class D felony.

5. Any person who without lawful authority possesses anycertificate, record, or report, required by sections 193.005 to193.325 or a copy or certified copy of such certificate, record,or report knowing same to have been stolen, or otherwiseunlawfully obtained, shall be guilty of a class D felony.

6. Any person who knowingly refuses to provide informationrequired by sections 193.005 to 193.325, or regulations adoptedhereunder, shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.

7. Any person who knowingly neglects or violates any of theprovisions of sections 193.005 to 193.325 or refuses to performany of the duties imposed upon him by sections 193.005 to193.325 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor.