Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 836.06 (2025)

Punishment for making derogatory statements concerning banks and building and loan associations.

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836.06 Punishment for making derogatory statements concerning banks and building and loan associations.Any person who shall willfully and maliciously make, circulate or transmit to another or others any false statement, rumor or suggestion, written, printed or by word of mouth, which is directly or by inference derogatory to the financial condition or affects the solvency or financial standing of any banking institution or building and loan association doing business in this state, or who shall counsel, aid, procure or induce another to start, transmit or circulate any such statement or rumor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
History.s. 1, ch. 6819, 1915; RGS 5093; s. 1, ch. 11866, 1927; CGL 7195, 7315; s. 992, ch. 71-136.

Arrestable Offenses under F.S. 836.06

M = misdemeanor · F = felony · degree: F=1st S=2nd T=3rd
§836.06FRAUD-FALSE STATEMENTMAKE FALSE STATEMENT FINANCIAL CONDIT OF BANKM · 1st

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