524.1609  False statements concerning state banks.

Whoever maliciously or with intent to deceive makes, publishes, utters, repeats, or circulates any false statement concerning any state bank which imputes, or tends to impute, insolvency, unsound financial condition or financial embarrassment, or which may tend to cause or provoke, or aid in causing or provoking, a general withdrawal of deposits from such state bank, or which may otherwise injure or tend to injure the business or good will of such state bank, shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.

Section History: Early form

  [C31, 35, § 9283-c4; C39, § 9283.04; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, § 528.89; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 524.1609]


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