§712-1256 Expunging of court records. (1) Upon the dismissal of such person and discharge of the proceeding against the person under section 712-1255, this person, if the person was not over twenty years of age at the time of the offense, may apply to the court for an order to expunge from all official records all recordation relating to the person's arrest, indictment, or information, trial, finding of guilt, and dismissal and discharge pursuant to this section.

(2) If the court determines, after hearing, that such person was dismissed and the proceedings against the person discharged and that the person was not over twenty years of age at the time of the offense, it shall enter such order.

(3) The effect of such order shall be to restore such person, in the contemplation of the law, to the status the person occupied before such arrest or indictment or information.

(4) No person as to whom such order has been entered shall be held thereafter under any provision of any law to be guilty of perjury or otherwise giving a false statement by reason of the person's failures to recite or acknowledge such arrest or indictment or information, or trial in response to any inquiry made of the person for any purpose. [L 1972, c 9, pt of §1; gen ch 1993]