Montana Code Annotated 2017

TITLE 32. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 2. BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS

Part 1. General Provisions

Obtaining Property By Fraud -- False Report -- Refusal To Permit Inspection Of Books

32-2-107. Obtaining property by fraud -- false report -- refusal to permit inspection of books. A director, officer, agent, or employee of a building and loan association is guilty of a felony who:

(1) willfully receives or possesses any of its property, otherwise than in payment for a just demand, and with intent to defraud:

(a) omits to make or direct to be made a full and true entry of it in its books and accounts;

(b) concurs in omitting to make a material entry thereof;

(2) willfully makes or concurs in making or publishing a written report, exhibit, or statement of the association's affairs or pecuniary condition containing any material statement which is false; or

(3) having the custody or control of the association's books, willfully refuses or neglects to make a proper entry in the books as required by law or to exhibit or allow them to be inspected and extracts to be taken from them by the department.

History: En. Sec. 37, Ch. 57, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6355.38, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 83, Ch. 431, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 30, Ch. 71, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 7-139.