RS 3:3660 Criminal penalties
§3660. Criminal penalties
A. No person shall provide any false or misleading information concerning the name of the owner of any farm products or concerning the existence of any security interest affecting the farm products with the intent to deprive the holder of any of his security under the security interest. No person shall take any action with respect to the alienation, encumbrance, or other disposition of farm products which are subject to a security device with the intent to deprive the holder of any of his security under the security device.
B. The signing of the declaration authorized by R.S. 3:3659 without complying with the terms of that declaration shall create the presumption that the person who signed the declaration intended to deprive a holder of a security device affecting the farm products of his security under the security device.
C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than five thousand dollars, or imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than ten years, or both.
Acts 1989, No. 548, §1, eff. Aug. 22, 1989.