Falsifying business records

HRS §708-872 — under Chapter 708.

HRS §708-872

§708-872 Falsifying business records. (1) A person commits the offense of falsifying business records if, with intent to defraud, the person:

(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. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993; am L 2014, c 33, §1]