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524.1609 - FALSE STATEMENTS CONCERNING STATE BANKS.

        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 goodwill 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]