Misappropriation of funds or information by officer, director, or employee as felony.

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51A-1-13. Misappropriation of funds or information by officer, director, or employee as felony.

Any officer, director or employee of a bank, who wrongfully diverts or takes any of the money, funds, credits, data, information or property of the bank, whether owned by it or held in trust, who wrongfully withholds payment or remittance of the proceeds of any collection which may come into his hands, who without authority of the directors, issues or puts forth any certificate of deposit, draws any order or bill of exchange, makes any acceptance, assigns any note, bond, draft, bill of exchange, judgment or mortgage, or who makes any false entry in any book, report or statement of the bank or report or statement required by the provisions of this title, with intent to injure the bank or any person, or to deceive any officer of the bank, anyone appointed to examine the affairs of the bank, or any other person, is guilty of a Class 5 felony.

Source: SL 1909, ch 222, art 2, §§19, 39; SL 1911, ch 255, §32; SL 1915, ch 102, art 2, §§22, 43; RC 1919, §§8969, 8991, 9062; SL 1923, ch 116, §1; SDC 1939, §§6.9903, 6.9910; SDCL, §§51-1-2, 51-12-11; SL 1969, ch 11, §1.11; SL 1980, ch 24, §79; SL 1988, ch 377, §9; SDCL, §51-15-11.


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