Effective - 28 Aug 1939
362.415. Prohibitions against encroachments upon certain powers of banks. — 1. No person unauthorized by law shall subscribe to or become a member of, or be in any way interested in any association, institution or company formed or to be formed for the purpose of issuing notes or other evidences of debt to be loaned or put in circulation as money; nor shall any such person subscribe to or become in any way interested in any bank or fund created or to be created for the like purposes or either of them.
2. No corporation, domestic or foreign, other than a national bank or a federal reserve bank, unless expressly authorized by the laws of this state, shall employ any part of its property, or be in any way interested in any fund which shall be employed for the purpose of receiving deposits, making discounts, or issuing notes or other evidences of debt to be loaned or put into circulation as money.
3. All notes and other securities for the payment of any money or the delivery of any property made or given to any such association, institution or company, or made or given to secure the payment of any money loaned or discounted by any corporation or its officers contrary to the provisions of this section shall be void.
4. No person, association of persons or corporation, unless expressly authorized by law, shall keep any office for the purpose of issuing any evidences of debt, to be loaned or put in circulation as money; nor shall they issue any bills or promissory notes or other evidences of debt for the purpose of loaning them or putting them in circulation as money, unless thereto specially authorized by law.
5. Every person, and every corporation, director, agent, officer or member thereof, who shall violate any provision of this section, directly or indirectly, or assent to such violation, shall forfeit one thousand dollars to the state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 7990)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 5394; 1919 § 11773