Falsified Documentation to Replace Genuine Articles... Perjury?

[Chesapeake]

So, in my state (Illinois), it is mandatory for drivers under 18 to have 50 hours of driving under their belt before applying for a license (ten of which have to be at night… I’ll get back to that). The vast majority of the people I have talked to falsified their driving records, pretending to do far more hours then they actually have. I had completed about 40 hours when I lost my driving log. After that event, I tried keeping logs on a piece of paper… and I’m pretty sure that I completed all 50 (although I’m not sure if I completed 10 of those hours at night).

Anyways, since I didn’t have the previous 40 hours recorded (I had obviously forgotten the exact details of each entry), so I made fictitious entries in a new copy of the log so that I could apply for my license. At the DMV, I signed a document stating that “under penalty of perjury” none of my documentation was false. Obviously, my log was!

I drove all of the hours (thereby obeying our state law)… but my documentation itself was falsified. Did I commit a sin in my actions? And if so… how serious was it?

As a side-question, although I drove the manditory 50 hours, since I lost my log, I’m not quite sure if 10 of them were at night. Of my final 10, I am sure that 6 of them were at night, so its a pretty good guess that I had it… but once again, I’m not sure…

 

[DailyBread]

I would say that at the time you should have been up front to the DMV about what happened… in the degree of the sin I could only say a confessor could tell you though I imagine for something like this expecially since in most instances you were trying to be honest, I highly doubt this would be considered a mortal sin. I would say confess it, but I doubt you need to do much more since you probably did do the required driving. Listen to what a confessor advises.
Peace