534.105 - DEFAMATION OF INSTITUTIONS -- PENALTY. - Iowa Statutes

534.105 DEFAMATION OF INSTITUTIONS -- PENALTY. Whoever maliciously or with intent to deceive makes, publishes, utters, repeats, or circulates any false report concerning any savings and loan association which imputes or tends to impute, insolvency or unsound financial condition or financial embarrassment, or which may tend to cause or provoke or aid in causing or provoking a general withdrawal of funds from such association, or which may otherwise injure or tend to injure the business or goodwill of such savings and loan association, shall be guilty of a serious misdemeanor.          Section History: Early Form [C35, § 9388-e1; C39, § 9388.2; C46, 50, 54, 58, § 534.87; C62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 534.13]          Section History: Recent Form C85, § 534.105 2007 Acts, ch 88, §23