§710-1076 Tampering with physical evidence. (1) A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if, believing that an official proceeding is pending or about to be instituted, the person:
(a) Destroys, mutilates, conceals, removes, or alters physical evidence with intent to impair its verity in the pending or prospective official proceeding;
(b) Makes, presents, or offers any false physical evidence with intent that it be introduced in the pending or prospective official proceeding.
(2) "Physical evidence," as used in this section includes any article, object, document, record, or other thing of physical substance.
(3) Tampering with physical evidence is a misdemeanor. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993]