Recovery of public records.

Existing law provides that every officer having the custody of any public record, as specified, filed or deposited in any public office, or placed in his or her hands for any purpose, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 2, 3, or 4 years if the officer willfully steals, removes, destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, or falsifies the record, or causes another person to do so. Existing law also provides that every person not an officer who is guilty of any of these acts is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison or in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both.