Section 16 Misconduct of officer, director, agent or employee - Massachusetts Statutes

Section 16. Any officer, director, agent or employee of any bank, who knowingly and wilfully does any act forbidden to him or to such bank by any provision of chapters one hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and sixty-seven A to one hundred and sixty-seven G, inclusive, one hundred and seventy and one hundred and eighty-three as such provisions are applicable to such officer or to such bank, or who knowingly and wilfully aids or abets the doing of any act so forbidden to such bank or to any other officer, director, agent or employee thereof, or who knowingly and wilfully fails to do any act required of him by any such provision, or who knowingly and wilfully fails to do any act which is required of such bank by any such provision the performance of which is imposed on him by the by-laws or regulations of the bank or by law or the responsibility for the non-performance of which is placed upon him by section thirteen shall, if no other penalty against him in his aforesaid capacity is specifically provided, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.