(a) No person, knowing the person has no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing that the person is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following:
(1) Falsify, destroy, remove, conceal, alter, deface or mutilate any writing, computer software, data, computer data or record;
(2) Utter any writing or record, knowing it to have been tampered with as provided in subsection (a)(1) hereof.
(b)
Whoever violates this section is guilty of tampering with records, a misdemeanor of the first degree. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02. If the violation involves data the value of which or loss to the victim is one thousand dollars ($1,000) or more, if the writing or record is a will unrevoked at the time of the offense or a record kept by or belonging to a governmental agency, tampering with records is a felony and shall be prosecuted under appropriate State law.
(ORC 2913.42)
(ORC 2913.42)