No information from financial statements obtained from applicants for licenses or licensees for the division's use in determining responsibility or maintaining proof of responsibility for the future shall be released unless in statistical form and classified to prevent identification of particular applicants. Any employee of the division, any former employee of the division or any other person who reveals to another individual any information which he is prohibited from lawfully revealing by provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be fined not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisoned not more than one year, or both, and shall not be employed by the state for a period of five years after the date of the conviction.
History: 1978 Comp., § 60-13-48.1, enacted by Laws 1983, ch. 105, § 22; 1989, ch. 6, § 41.