(a) A person commits the offense of falsifying educational and academic documents who buys, sells, creates, duplicates, alters, gives or obtains a diploma, academic record, certificate of enrollment or other instrument which purports to signify merit or achievement conferred by an institution of education with the intent to use fraudulently that document or to allow the fraudulent use of the document.
(b) It is not a violation of this section for an employee of a school to alter, create, or duplicate the grade of a student in an educational or academic document, if such alteration, creation, or duplication is due to the student earning the grade through a program that allows the student to retake a failed course, exam, or assignment and earn credit.
(c) A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.