Any bridge or other contractor, partnership, corporation, association of contractors, or any other person, or any director, officer or any receiver, trustee, clerk or agent, or other person acting for them or employed by them, who alone or acting with any other contractor or other person, partnership, corporation or association, shall willfully do or cause to be done, or shall willfully suffer or permit to be done, any act, matter or thing herein prohibited or declared to be unlawful, or who shall aid or abet therein, or shall willfully omit or fail to do any act, matter or thing herein required to be done, or shall willfully cause, suffer or permit any thing directed to be done, not to be so done, or shall aid or abet or advise such omission or failure, or shall be guilty of any infraction of this article, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), or imprisoned in the State Penitentiary not exceeding five (5) years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
R.L. 1910, § 8244. Amended by Laws 1919, c. 238, p. 338, § 3; Laws 1997, c. 133, § 592, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 5, § 428, eff. July 1, 1999.
NOTE: Laws 1998, 1st Ex.Sess., c. 2, § 23 amended the effective date of Laws 1997, c. 133, § 592 from July 1, 1998, to July 1, 1999.