(a) No person, knowing he has no privilege to do so, and with purpose to defraud or knowing that he is facilitating a fraud, shall do any of the following:
(1) Falsify, destroy, remove, conceal, alter, deface or mutilate any writing, computer software, 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, if the writing or record is not a will unrevoked at the time of the offense or not a record kept by or belonging to a governmental agency or if the value of the loss of data or computer software is less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).
(ORC 2913.42; Ord. 519-11. Passed 11-15-11.)