(1) A person commits the crime of unlawful use of a vital record or vital report if the person willfully and knowingly:
(a) Makes any false statement in a certificate, record or report required by this chapter or in an application for an amendment thereof, or in an application for a certified copy of a vital record or vital report, or supplies false information intending that the information be used in the preparation of any certificate, record or report, or amendment thereto;
(b) Without lawful authority and with intent to deceive, makes, counterfeits, alters, amends or mutilates any certificate, record or report required by this chapter or a certified copy of a certificate, record or report;
(c) Obtains, possesses, uses, sells, furnishes or attempts to obtain, possess, use, sell or furnish to another, for any purpose of deception, any certificate, record or report required by this chapter or certified copy thereof so made, counterfeited, altered, amended or mutilated, or that is false in whole or in part or that relates to the birth of another person, whether living or deceased;
(d) Without lawful authority, possesses any certificate, record or report required by this chapter or a copy or certified copy of a certificate, record or report that has been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or
(e) As an employee of the Center for Health Statistics or of any office established pursuant to ORS 432.035, furnishes or processes a certificate of birth, knowing that the certificate or copy is to be used for the purposes of deception.
(2) Unlawful use of a vital record or vital report is a Class C felony. [1997 c.783 §42]
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