377.190. Penalty for false statement.

MISSOURI STATUTES AND CODES

377.190. Penalty for false statement.

Penalty for false statement.

377.190. Any solicitor, agent or examining physician, whoshall knowingly or willfully make any false or fraudulentstatement or misrepresentation in or with reference to anyapplication for insurance, or for the purpose of obtaining anymoney or benefit in any corporation doing business under sections377.010 to 377.190, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and uponconviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than onehundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, orimprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days normore than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at thediscretion of the court; and any person who shall willfully makea false statement of any material fact or thing in a swornstatement as to death or disability of a certificate holder inany such corporation, for the purpose of procuring payment of abenefit named in the certificate of such holder, shall be guiltyof perjury, and shall be proceeded against and punished asprovided by the statutes of this state in relation to the crimeof perjury.