81-12-199 - Untrue, false and malicious statements calculated to injure reputation or business of certain savings associations; penalty for making. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 81-12-199. Untrue, false and malicious statements calculated to injure reputation or business of certain savings associations; penalty for making.
 

Whoever willfully and knowingly makes, issues, circulates, transmits or causes to be made any statement, written, printed, reproduced in any manner, or by word of mouth, which is untrue in fact and is directly false and malicious in that it is calculated to injure the reputation or business of any association, federal association, federal home loan bank, the appropriate federal regulatory authority, or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, shall upon conviction be fined not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisoned for not more than one (1) year, or both. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1977, ch. 445, § 61(3); reenacted, 1982, ch. 301, § 100; Laws, 1990 Ex Sess, ch. 52, § 103; Laws, 1993, ch. 441, § 104; reenacted and amended, 1994, ch. 622, § 136; reenacted without change, Laws,  1997, ch. 496, § 101; reenacted without change, Laws, 2001, ch. 488, § 103, eff from and after July 1, 2001.