(1) A person commits the offense of falsifying business records if, with intent to defraud, the person:

Attorney's Note

Under the Hawaii Revised Statutes, punishments for crimes depend on the classification. In the case of this section:
ClassPrisonFine
misdemeanorup to 1 year$2,000
For details, see Haw. Rev. Stat. § 706-663
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(a) Makes or causes a false entry in the business records of an enterprise;
(b) Alters, erases, obliterates, deletes, removes, or destroys a true entry in the business records of an enterprise;
(c) Omits to make a true entry in the business records of an enterprise in violation of a duty to do so which the person knows to be imposed upon the person by law, other than for the information of the government, or by the nature of the person’s position; or
(d) Prevents the making of a true entry or causes the omission thereof in the business records of an enterprise.
(2) For purposes of this section:

“Business record” means any record kept or maintained by an enterprise for the purpose of evidencing or reflecting its condition or activity.

“Electronic” means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities.

“Enterprise” means any entity of one or more persons, corporate or otherwise, engaged in business, commercial, professional, industrial, eleemosynary, or social activity.

“Information” includes data, text, images, sounds, codes, computer programs, software, or databases.

“Record” means information that is written or printed, or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form.

(3) Falsifying business records is a misdemeanor.

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