641—95.15 (144) Unlawful acts.
	 95.15(1) Serious misdemeanors. Any person who reports information required under Iowa Code chapter 144 and who commits any of the following acts is guilty of a serious misdemeanor:
	  a.   	 Willfully and knowingly makes any false statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed or in an application for an amendment or willfully and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be used in the preparation or amendment of any such report, record, or certificate.
	  b.   	 Without lawful authority and with the intent to deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates any report, record, or certificate required to be filed or a certified copy of such report, record, or certificate.
	  c.   	 Willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use or furnish to another for use for any purpose of deception any certificate, record, or report or certified copy thereof.
	  d.   	 Willfully and knowingly alters, amends, or mutilates any copy, certified copy, record or report.
	  e.   	 Willfully, with the intent to deceive, uses or attempts to use any certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth knowing that such certificate or certified copy was issued based upon a record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of another person.
	  f.   	 Willfully and knowingly furnishes a certificate of birth or certified copy of a record of birth with the intention that it be used by a person other than the person to whose birth the record relates.
	  g.   	 Disinterring a body in violation of Iowa Code section 144.34.
	  h.   	 Knowingly violates a provision of Iowa Code section 144.29A.
	 95.15(2) Simple misdemeanors. Any person committing any of the following acts is guilty of a simple misdemeanor:
	  a.   	 Knowingly transports or accepts for transportation, interment, or other disposition a dead body without an accompanying permit as provided in Iowa Code sections 144.32, 144.33, and 144.34.
	  b.   	 Refuses to provide information required by Iowa Code chapter 144.
	  c.   	 Willfully violates any of the provisions of Iowa Code chapter 144 or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon the person.
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