S.C. Code § 34-3-70

Current through 2024 Act No. 225.
Section 34-3-70 - False statements concerning solvency of bank

Any person who shall falsely and wilfully and with intent to injure circulate any report or make any false oral statement as to the assets or liabilities of any bank in this State, its solvency or ability to meet its obligations or its soundness or who shall make any other false oral statement calculated to affect the credit or standing of such a bank or to cast suspicion upon its solvency, soundness or ability to meet its deposits or other obligations in due course shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or be imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court.

S.C. Code § 34-3-70

1922 (32) 773; 1932 Code Section 1230; 1942 Code Section 7874-3; 1952 Code Section 8-108; 1962 Code Section 8-108.