(a) Any person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, to a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six (6) months, or to both fine and imprisonment if that person, for the purpose of evading this act, or of evading any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder:
(1) Shall intentionally make or cause to be made any false entry or statement of fact in any report required to be made by this act or by any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder;
(2) Shall make or cause to be made any false entry in any account, record, or memorandum kept by any person in connection with the provisions of this act or of any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder;
(3) Shall omit to make, or cause to be omitted, full, true, and correct entries in the accounts, records, or memoranda, of all facts and transactions pertaining to the interest or activities in the petroleum industry of that person as may be required by the commission under authority given in this act or by any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder;
(4) Shall remove out of the jurisdiction of the state or shall mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsify any book, record, or other paper pertaining to the transactions regulated by this act, or by any rule, regulation, or order made hereunder.
(b) Any person who willfully violates any program requirement under the applicable provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, Public Law 93-523, as amended, for the control of underground injection shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in subsection (a) of this section.
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