410 ILCS 535/27

(410 ILCS 535/27) (from Ch. 111 1/2, par. 73-27)

Sec. 27.

(1) (a) Any person who willfully and knowingly makes any false
statement in a report, record, or certificate required to be filed under
this Act, or in an application for an amendment thereof, or who willfully
and knowingly supplies false information intending that such information be
used in the preparation of any such report, record, or certificate, or
amendment thereof; or

(b) Any person who without lawful authority and with the intent to
deceive, makes, alters, amends, or mutilates any report, record, or
certificate required to be filed under this Act or a certified copy of such
report, record, or certificate; or

(c) Any person who willfully and knowingly uses or attempts to use, or
furnish to another for use, for any purpose of deception, any certificate,
record, report, or certified copy thereof so made, altered, amended, or
mutilated; or

(d) Any person who with the intention to deceive willfully 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 upon a
record which is false in whole or in part or which relates to the birth of
another person; or

(e) Any custodian of a vital record who willfully and knowingly violates
the provisions of Section 24 or Section 25 of this Act; or

(f) Any person who 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 or persons other than those recited in Section 25(4) of
this Act is guilty of a Class 4 felony.

(2) (a) Any person who knowingly transports or accepts for
transportation, interment, or other disposition of a dead body without an
accompanying permit as provided in this Act; or

(b) Any person who refuses to provide information required by this Act;
or

(c) Any person who willfully neglects or violates any of the provisions
of this Act or refuses to perform any of the duties imposed upon him or her
by this Act is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(3) This Section shall not apply to any registration of a vital record
obtained pursuant to Section 15.1 of this Act.

(Source: P.A. 88-57.)