Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 32. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

CHAPTER 1. BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES

Part 4. Operation and Regulation

Fraud By Director, Officer, Agent, Or Employee

32-1-464. Fraud by director, officer, agent, or employee. A director, executive officer, agent, or employee of a bank is guilty of a felony if that person:

(1) knowingly receives or takes possession of any bank property, except in payment for a just demand, and with intent to defraud:

(a) fails to make or to cause or direct to be made a full and true entry of the receipt or possession in its books and account; or

(b) concurs in failing to make any material entry in its books and account;

(2) knowingly concurs in making or publishing any written report, exhibit, or statement of its affairs or pecuniary condition containing any material statement that is false; or

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

History: En. Sec. 40, Ch. 89, L. 1927; re-en. Sec. 6014.44, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 16, Ch. 431, L. 1975; amd. Sec. 8, Ch. 71, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 5-519; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 36, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 81, Ch. 382, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 163, L. 2005.