533.508 - FALSE STATEMENTS -- PENALTIES. - Iowa Statutes

533.508 FALSE STATEMENTS -- PENALTIES. 1. A director, officer, or employee of a state credit union shall not intentionally publish, disseminate, or distribute any advertising or notice containing any false, misleading, or deceptive statements concerning rates, terms, or conditions on which loans are made, or deposits or share installments are received, or concerning any charge which the state credit union is authorized to impose pursuant to this chapter, or concerning the financial condition of the state credit union. Any director, officer, or employee of a state credit union who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a fraudulent practice. 2. Any person who maliciously or with intent to deceive makes, publishes, utters, repeats, or circulates any false statement concerning any state credit union 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 credit union, or which may otherwise injure or tend to injure the business or goodwill of such state credit union, is guilty of a simple misdemeanor.          Section History: Recent Form 2007 Acts, ch 174, §75